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SUMMARY:Social Metabolism and Valuation Languages in the Atlas of Environ
 mental Justice 
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture delivered by Joan Martinez-Alier\, Emer
 itus Professor of Economics and Economic History\, and senior researcher
  at ICTA UAB. \n\nJoan will discuss the Atlas of Environmental Justice (
 ejatlas.org)\, of which he is a co-director\, and his recent textbook ex
 ploring Global Comparative Political Ecology\, Land\, Water\, Air and Fr
 eedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice (2023)\, 
 based on the EJAtlas. The book reveals the enormous “entropy hole” at th
 e centre of the industrial economy\, and traces “ecological distribution
  conflicts” at the frontiers of commodity extraction and waste disposal.
 \n\nJoan was awarded a Balzan prize in 2020 and the Holberg prize in 202
 3 as a scholar of ecological economics\, political ecology\, and environ
 mental justice. \nHe was a research fellow at St. Antony’s College\, Oxf
 ord between 1963 and 1973\, and 1984-85. He published Ecological economi
 cs: energy\, environment\, and society (1987)\; Varieties of environment
 alism: Essays North and South (1997) with Ramachandra Guha\; and The Env
 ironmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation
  (2003). He co-edited the textbook Ecological Economics from the Ground 
 Up (2013) and directed the EJOLT project (2011-15). He has co-directed a
 bout 40 doctoral theses as mentor of the Barcelona School of Ecological 
 Economics and Political Ecology. He was co-founder (1990) and president 
 of the International Society for Ecological Economics (2006-2007). In 20
 16\, he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project EnvJustice. 
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LOCATION:G32\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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