07 June, 2018

Tracking the battles for environmental justice: here are the world’s top 10

Environmental justice activism is to this age what the workers’ movement was for the industrial age - one of the most influential social movements of its time. Yet, despite its consistent progress since the 1970s, environmental justice protests seem to get lost in the morass of information on broader environmental issues.
In Delhi, middle-class residents and informal recyclers joined
together to oppose the privatisation of waste management. 
In contrast, labour conflicts, including strikes and lock-outs, carry such gravity that the International Labour Organization tracks these on a systematic basis. As more communities are refusing to allow the destruction and contamination of their land, water, soil and air, these, in turn, deserve to be counted.

The Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas), an inventory of social conflicts around environmental issues, fills that gap. It is funded by two successive European research projects, through a collective effort of scientists and activists. It records the failures and successes of the worldwide movement for environmental justice.


Read the story from The Conversation by a Post-Doctoral Researcher, Environmental Justice Atlas from the  Autonomous University of Barcelona, Julie Snorek - “Tracking the battles for environmental justice: here are the world’s top 10.”

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