Mapping environmental conflicts – Daniela Del Bene (ICTA-UAB) Tuesday 7th July, 12.00-13.30, UAB Campus In this session we will present the overall process of mapping environmental conflicts at EJatlas at the EJOLT project. We’ll define such conflicts from a perspective of the social metabolism and environmental justice and will briefly go through some of the most…
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Collaborative research for environmental justice
Collaborative research for environmental justice – the EJOLT experience – Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos (ICTA-UAB) Tuesday 7th July, 10.00-11.30, UAB Campus The emerging paradigm of collaborative research involves both researchers and non-researchers in close co-operative engagement. It encompasses an ample range of approaches, frameworks and methods, from interdisciplinary collaboration to transdisciplinary deliberation and citizen participation. Supported by…
Environmental justice, ecologism of the poor and degrowth
Environmental justice, ecologism of the poor and degrowth – Joan Martinez-Alier (ICTA-UAB) Monday 6th July, 10.00 – 11.30, UAB Campus The words ‘‘environmental justice’’ were initially used in the United States in the early 1980s for local complaints against ‘‘environmental racism,’’ i.e., the disproportionate pollution burdens in areas primarily inhabited by disadvantaged ethnic groups….
waste in naples
Waste in Naples – Giacomo D’Alisa (University of Rome Sapienza and ICTA-UAB) Friday 10th July, 16.30-17.10, Can Masdéu (Barcelona) The waste crisis in Campania has inspired a vast amount of studies. Nevertheless, very little research has been done to explain the figures of waste generation and disposal in the region. The analyses carried out…
degrowth-setting the stage
Degrowth: setting the stage – Filka Sekulova (ICTA-UAB) Monday 6th July, 12.00-13.30, UAB Campus This semi-introductory explorative lecture will set the stage for the summer school, bringing the seeds of the discussions yet to come and knitting the logical (and illogical) threads between the analytical and prescriptive elements of degrowth. Starting with the common misinterpretations and…
Welcome event
Sunday 25th July, 16.30-21.00 – Parc of Collserola (Barcelona) The Welcome Event will take place in the Parc of Collserola, the natural park surrounding Barcelona. The spot is in between Barcelona city centre and the UAB Campus and you can easily reach it by train from Plaza Catalunya in about 30 minutes. You should take…
Degrowth and the new left
Degrowth and the new left: trapped between anti-austerity and pro-growth politics? – Federico Demaria (ICTA-UAB) Tuesday 14th July, 12.00-13.30 – Cerbère (France) A new Left, new in terms of ideas, but also in terms of the young age of its members, is rising in Europe, from Spain and Catalonia, to Greece, Slovenia or Croatia. Will that…
energy sovereignity
Degrowth proposals from the North: energy sovereignity – Pablo Cotarelo (Ecologists in Action) Monday 13th July, 12.00-13-30 – Cerbère (France) Energy sovereignty is the right of conscious individuals, communities and peoples tomake their own decisions regarding the generation, distribution and consumption of energy, so that these are appropriate totheir ecological, social, economic and cultural…
What about technology and sciences
What about technology and sciences ? – Sylvain Fischer (R&D France) Monday 13th July, 10.00-11.30 – Cerbère (France) In the year 1637, René Descartes proposed a method for understanding the nature with the hope that humans can become « like masters and possessors of nature ». The four next centuries generalized progressively the cartesian rationalism, even yielding…
From limits to growth to the green economy
From limits to growth to the green economy – Erik Gomez-Baggethun (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research) Sunday 12th July, 12.00-13.30 – Cerbère (France) More than four decades since the launch of a global agenda for environmental governance, international policy has failed to reverse climate change, resource depletion and the generalized decline of biodiversity and ecological…