Lecture: Environmental Justice & Degrowth -- Founder of Ecological Economics
nityanand jayaraman
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND ECONOMIC DEGROWTH: AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN TWO MOVEMENTS
A Discussion with Joan Martinez-Alier
WHAT: Talk by Joan Martinez-Alier on Environmental Justice and Economic Degrowth: An Alliance between Two Movements
WHEN: 11th January 2016 at 3:30pm
WHERE: Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS)
79, Second Main Road,
Gandhi Nagar
Adyar
About the Speaker:
Joan Martinez-Alier is one of the founders of ecological economics and the author of numerous important and pioneering works in this field. He has been studying between economy, society and environment for the past 40 years. His pioneering work on environmental movements captured in the book ‘The Environmentalism of the Poor - A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation’ analysed the several manifestations of the growing ‘environmental justice movements’ and the ‘environmentalism of the poor’, which he described as the driving forces in the process to achieve an ecologically sustainable society.
He is currently also studying the degrowth (‘décroissance’ in French) movement that was launched in the beginning of the 21st century as a project of voluntary societal shrinking of production and consumption in industrialized countries aimed at social and ecological sustainability. It quickly became a slogan against economic growth and developed into a social movement.
Some of his most important works include Ecological Economics (1990) and The Environmentalism of the Poor (2002). His most recent book is Ecological Economics From the Ground Up (with Hali Healy). He has worked extensively in Latin America, and is familiar with the resource conflicts and political ecology of the region. He is a Catalan who teaches at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and is active in Europe’s nascent degrowth/decroissance movement.
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