The pace of mineral extraction has greatly accelerated since the mid-1950s, with a major
mineral boom taking place in the past decade. Responding to growing demands for more …

This academic review of more than 200 articles, books and reports sheds light to why and
how do communities resist mining and how do their forms of resistance change over time …

One of the causes of the increasing number of ecological distribution conflicts around the
world is the changing metabolism of the economy in terms of growing flows of energy and …

In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the “twenty-first-
century socialist” government and a coalition of grassroots activists came to blows over the …

The environmental movement may be “the most comprehensive and influential movement of
our time”(Castells 1997: 67), representing for the 'post-industrial'age what the workers' …

A transformation to sustainability calls for radical and systemic societal shifts. Yet what this
entails in practice and who the agents of this radical transformation are require further …

This article describes the origins of the terms “environmental justice” and “environmentalism
of the poor and the indigenous” since the 1980s. In 2012 the collection of “ecological …

One of the main features of contemporary development politics in Latin America is the
prominent role of the state. Another feature is the intensification of natural resource …

Energy transition mineral and metals (ETM) are being widely discussed for their utility in
combating climate change. However, their contribution with respect to social and …

We argue that solutions-based research must avoid treating climate change as a merely
technical problem, recognizing instead that it is symptomatic of the history of European and …