Tag: Commodity Frontiers
Commodity frontiers
The search for materials to supply the countries at the centre of the global economy has already extended into the most remote corners of the world. To some extent, this …
NEW EJOLT REPORT: Mining from an environmental justice perspective
While world population increased 72 percent between 1970 and 2004, extraction of construction materials grew by 106 percent. The total consumption and extraction increased for practically all mineral resources – …
Mining conflicts around the world. Common grounds from an Environmental Justice perspective
Ejolt Report 7: Mining conflicts around the world. Common grounds from an Environmental Justice perspective The low resolution report can be downloaded here. The high resolution report can be downloaded here. Abstract This report aims …
The rise of a new extractivism and the plea for degrowth
By Giorgos Kallis. We thought that the “commodity frontiers”, the new mines that we dig on earth to take out the oil, gold, uranium or copper that feeds our consumer …
