Environmental Conflicts, Environmental Justice, and Valuation

Joan Martínez Alier
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Joan Martínez Alier: Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

No 2001_03, UHE Working papers from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Unitat d'Història Econòmica

Abstract: In this article some historical and contemporary environmental conflicts are described. The international environmental liability of mining corporations is discussed. Comparisons are made with conflicts in the United States and in South Africa which fall under the rubric of the Environmental Justice movement. Such conflicts are fought out in many languages, and the economic valuation of damages is only one of such languages. Who has the power to impose particular languages of valuation? Who rules over the ways and means of simplifying complexity, deciding that some points of view are out of order? Who has power to determine which is the bottom-line in an environmental discussion?

Keywords: Ecological Distribution Conflicts; Environmentalism of the Poor; Environmental Justice; Environmental Liability; Copper mining; Gold mining; Ecological economics; Valuation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2001-05
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