Mapping the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice: the EJAtlas
Mapping the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice: the EJAtlas
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DOI：
10.2458/v22i1.21108
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发表时间：
2015-12
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
L. Temper;D. Bene;J. Martínez-Alier
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作者：
L. Temper;D. Bene;J. Martínez-Alier
这篇文章强调了在全球范围内合作研究生态冲突的必要性。随着我国工业经济的社会新陈代谢加剧、采掘活动的加剧和废物的产生，相关的社会和环境影响在世界各地产生了冲突和抵抗。这种全球资本主义的扩张导致大宗商品链上不公正的不同地理位置之间的联系更加脱节。然而，与此同时，通过治理进程和环境正义运动的全球化，地方政治生态正变得越来越跨国和相互关联。我们首先提出的理由是，需要通过学术界和民间社会之间的合作和参与研究，采取新的办法来理解这种相互关联的冲突。然后，我们提出了一个大型研究项目，旨在通过一项协作绘图倡议：《全球环境正义地图集》，了解全球资源开采和废物处理冲突的决定因素。本文介绍了EJAtlas地图绘制过程及其方法，描述了共同设计和开发地图集的过程，并评估了该工具在激进主义、宣传和科学知识方面的初步成果和贡献。我们解释了地图集如何通过超越孤立的案例研究方法来丰富EJ研究，提供更广泛的基于证据的系统调查，以探讨围绕当地和全球环境正义斗争的政治、权力关系和社会新陈代谢过程。关键词：环境正义、地图、生态分配冲突、积极分子知识、政治生态
This article highlights the need for collaborative research on ecological conflicts within a global perspective. As the social metabolism of our industrial economy increases, intensifying extractive activities and the production of waste, the related social and environmental impacts generate conflicts and resistance across the world. This expansion of global capitalism leads to greater disconnection between the diverse geographies of injustice along commodity chains. Yet, at the same time, through the globalization of governance processes and Environmental Justice (EJ) movements, local political ecologies are becoming increasingly transnational and interconnected. We first make the case for the need for new approaches to understanding such interlinked conflicts through collaborative and engaged research between academia and civil society. We then present a large-scale research project aimed at understanding the determinants of resource extraction and waste disposal conflicts globally through a collaborative mapping initiative: The EJAtlas, the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice. This article introduces the EJAtlas mapping process and its methodology, describes the process of co-design and development of the atlas, and assesses the initial outcomes and contribution of the tool for activism, advocacy and scientific knowledge. We explain how the atlas can enrich EJ studies by going beyond the isolated case study approach to offer a wider systematic evidence-based enquiry into the politics, power relations and socio-metabolic processes surrounding environmental justice struggles locally and globally. Key words: environmental justice, maps, ecological distribution conflicts, activist knowledge, political ecology