The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology : A Companion in Honour of Joan Martinez-Alier / / edited by Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, Roldan Muradian.

• Superior document: Studies in Ecological Economics, 8
• Author: Villamayor-Tomas, Sergio.
• TeilnehmendeR: Muradian, Roldan.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Ecological Economics, 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (401 pages)

In this open access book, ecological economics and political ecology traditions converge into a single academic school. The book constitutes a common ground where multiple and critical voices are expressed, covering a broad scope of urgent matters at the crossroad between society, economy and the na...

Table of Contents

• Preface 1. A Grateful appreciation of Joan Martinez-Alier (Herman Daly)
• Preface 2. Memories concerning the career of Joan Martinez-Alier (Laurence Whitehead)
• Preface 3. Conversations with a Catalan polymath (Ramachandra Guha)
• Preface 4. Joan Martinez-Alier and the crisis of civilization, knowledge, and the human species (Victor Toledo)
• Part I. Introduction
• Chapter 1. Justification and scope of the book (Roldan Muradian and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas)
• Chapter 2. A Barcelona school of ecological economics and political ecology (Joan Martinez-Alier)
• Chapter 3. The Barcelona School of ecological economics and political ecology: Building bridges between moving shores (Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, Brototi Roy and Roldan Muradian)
• Part II. Epistemological foundations
• Chapter 4. Metaphysical midwifery and the living legacy of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (Katharine N. Farrell)
• Chapter 5. Languages of valuation (Christos Zografos)
• Chapter 6. Post-development: From the critique of development to a pluriverse of alternatives (Federico Demaria, Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar and Alberto Acosta)
• Chapter 7. Indigenous and local knowledge and social-ecological systems (Victoria Reyes-García)
• Chapter 8. Degrowth and the Barcelona school (Giorgos Kallis)
• Part III. Social metabolism
• Chapter 9. Agrarian metabolism and socio-ecological Transitions to agroecology Landscapes (Enric Tello and Manuel González de Molina)
• Chapter 10. Multi-scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism (Mario Giampietro)
• Chapter 11. Materials flow analysis in Latin America (Mario Alejandro Pérez-Rincón)
• Chapter 12. Biophysical approaches to food system analysis in Latin America (Jesus Ramos-Martin and Fander Falconí)
• Chapter 13. Ecologically unequal exchange: the renewed interpretation of Latin American debates by the Barcelona School (Beatriz Macchione Saes)
• Chapter 14. Flow/Fund Theory and Rural Livelihoods (Jose Carlos Silva-Macher)
• Chapter 15. Deceitful decoupling: misconceptions of a persistent myth (Alevgul H. Sorman)
• Part IV. Environmental justice conflicts and alternatives
• Chapter 16. Does the social metabolism drive environmental conflicts? (Arnim Scheidel)
• Chapter 17. A critical mapping for researching and acting upon environmental conflicts - the case of the EJAtlas (Daniela Del Bene and Sofia Ávila)
• Chapter 18. The EJAtlas: an unexpected pedagogical tool to teach and learn about environmental social sciences (Mariana Walter, Lena Weber, Leah Temper)
• Chapter 19. Commons regimes at the crossroads: environmental justice movements and commoning (Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, Gustavo García-López and Giacomo D’Alisa)
• Chapter 20. (In)justice in urban greening and green gentrification (Isabelle Anguelovski)
• Chapter 21. From the soil to the soul: Fragments of a theory of economic conflicts (Julien-François Gerber)
• Part V. Science and self-reflected activism
• Chapter 22. Activism Mobilising Science Revisited (Marta Conde and Martí Orta-Martínez)
• Chapter 23. Iberian Anarchism in Environmental History (Santiago Gorostiza)
• Chapter 24. The Barcelona School of ecological economics and social movements for alternative livelihoods (Claudio Cattaneo)
• Chapter 25. The ups and downs of feminist activist research: positional reflections (Sara Mingorria, Rosa Binimelis, Iliana Monterroso, Federica Ravera)
• Chapter 26. From the environmentalism of the poor and the indigenous towards decolonial environmental justice (Brototi Roy and Ksenija Hanaček)
• Part IV. Public policy applications
• Chapter 27. Agrobiodiversity in Mexican Environmental Policy (Nancy Arizpe and Dario Escobar-Moreno)
• Chapter 28. Conventional climate change economics: a way to define the optimal policy? (Jordi Roca and Emilio Padilla)
• Chapter 29. Contribution of global cities to climate-change mitigation overrated (Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh)
• Chapter 30. Reconciling Waste Management and ecological economics (Ignasi Puig Ventosa)
• Chapter 31. Work and needs in a finite planet: Reflections from ecological economics (Erik Gómez-Baggethun)
• Chapter 32. Collective action in Ecuadorian Amazonia (Fander Falconía and Julio Oleas)
• Chapter 33. The environmentalism of the paid (Esteve Corbera and Santiago Izquierdo-Tort)
• Index.