If Leaders Like Alexander Von Humboldt, Ronald Reagan, and Xi Jinping Would Have Been Environmental Justice Radicals Using Public Internet and Drones: A Short Political Ecology of Central America with Regard to Global Agenda Setting in 2014

2015 ◽  
pp. 25-76
Author(s):  
Falk Huettmann
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Central America ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
Global Agenda

Conflictos ambientales en Centroamérica y las Antillas: un rápido toxic tour

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Joan Martínez-Alier
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Central America ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Bauxite Mining ◽  
Cockpit Country ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Resistance Movement

In political ecology there is need for more empirical work on the large world resistance movement born from the environmentalism of the poor and the indigenous. The environmental conflicts collected in the Environmental Justice Atlas (www.ejatlas.org), 3,300 in October 2020 include about 130 from Mexico and 120 from Central America and the Caribbean, each one with a data sheet of 5 to 6 pages. This article puts Mexico aside because it is well covered in this issue of Ecología Política. I focus on Central America and the Caribbean briefly analyzing about twenty conflicts. Many of them are failures in environmental justice but some are encouragingly successful: for instance, Pacific Rim in El Salvador; Cerro Blanco in Guatemala and El Salvador; Crucitas in Costa Rica, and the Canal of Nicaragua that seemingly has been stopped. Also cases against Cemex in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the maroon people of Cockpit Country in Jamaica against bauxite mining, and Vieques in Puerto Rio against militarization. In the Conclusion I list some characteristics of the political ecology of the region.

scholarly journals Between activism and science: grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Martinez-Alier ◽  
Isabelle Anguelovski ◽  
Patrick Bond ◽  
Daniela Del Bene ◽  
Federico Demaria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Corporate Accountability ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Water Justice

In their own battles and strategy meetings since the early 1980s, EJOs (environmental justice organizations) and their networks have introduced several concepts to political ecology that have also been taken up by academics and policy makers. In this paper, we explain the contexts in which such notions have arisen, providing definitions of a wide array of concepts and slogans related to environmental inequities and sustainability, and explore the connections and relations between them. These concepts include: environmental justice, ecological debt, popular epidemiology, environmental racism, climate justice, environmentalism of the poor, water justice, biopiracy, food sovereignty, "green deserts", "peasant agriculture cools downs the Earth", land grabbing, Ogonization and Yasunization, resource caps, corporate accountability, ecocide, and indigenous territorial rights, among others. We examine how activists have coined these notions and built demands around them, and how academic research has in turn further applied them and supplied other related concepts, working in a mutually reinforcing way with EJOs. We argue that these processes and dynamics build an activist-led and co-produced social sustainability science, furthering both academic scholarship and activism on environmental justice.Keywords: Political ecology, environmental justice organizations, environmentalism of the poor, ecological debt, activist knowledge

Environmental Justice, Political Ecology, and the Three Bodies of a Mohawk Community

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hoover
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Community Based

The first chapter introduces the Superfund process, and describes how concepts and theories around environmental justice and political ecology need to be framed with an understanding of settler colonialism to be applied to Native American communities. This introduction also describes the community based methods from which this project was born, and lays out the three bodies (individual, social and political) through which Akwesasro:non responses to topics throughout the book are framed

Environmental Justice, Political Agenda Setting, and the Myths of History

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin V. Melosi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Health Hazards ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Environmental Organizations ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Earth

The emergence of the environmental justice movement in the 1980s has stimulated much debate on the extent to which race and class have been or should become central concerns of modern environmentalism. Leaders in the environmental justice movement have charged that mainstream environmental organizations and, in turn, environmental policy have demonstrated a greater concern for preserving wilderness and animal habitats than addressing health hazards of humans, especially those living in cities; have embraced a “Save the Earth” perspective at the expense of saving people's lives and protecting their homes and backyards. Some advocates of environmental justice have gone so far as to dissociate their movement from American environmentalism altogether, rather identifying with a broader social justice heritage as imbedded in civil rights activities of the 1950s and 1960s.

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