Description: Das Projekt "EJOLT - Environmental Justice Organisations Liabilities and Trade" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften Brüssel. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: Universidad Autonoma Barcelona.Environmental Justice Organizations (EJOs) are civil society organizations concerned with social conflicts over resource extraction or waste disposal. Resource distributional conflicts, as they are called, are increasing in frequency and scale as the world economy uses more and more materials and energy. The EJOs focus on the link between the need for environmental security and the defence of basic human rights. The project EJOLT unites a consortium of international actors (scientists, activist organizations, think-tanks, policy-makers) across a range of fields (environmental law, environmental health, political ecology, ecological economics and social ecology) to promote mutual learning and collaboration among stakeholders who make use of sustainability concepts and empirical findings particularly on aspects of resource distribution. Central concepts are ecological debts (or environmental liabilities) and ecologically unequal exchange. EJOLT will explore the roots of increasing ecological distribution conflicts at different scales, and how to turn such conflicts into forces for environmental sustainability. Thus one of the primary purposes is to empower EJOs and the communities they support that receive an unfair share of environmental burdens to defend or reclaim their rights. Participatory methods, action research and a range of methodologies will be applied to enhance the capacities and effectiveness of EJOs, communities and citizen movements. EJOLT will build on EJOs knowledge of environmental risks and legal mechanisms and the translation of their experience and findings into the policy arena. In the process, EJOLT will enrich the sustainability sciences through the accumulated knowledge of the EJOs and lead to enhanced application of these sciences to real-life policy question. Keywords
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Origin: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Blei ? Bürgerengagement ? Menschenrechte ? Verteilungspolitik ? Umweltvölkerrecht ? Abfallentsorgung ? Bürgerbeteiligung ? Rohstoffgewinnung ? Umweltbelastung ? Umweltkonflikt ? Haftung ? Interessenvertreter ? Internationale Zusammenarbeit ? Politische Ökologie ? Sozialökologie ? Umweltgefährdung ? Umwelthygiene ? Energie ? Weltwirtschaft ? Zielgruppe ? Energieverbrauch ? Nachhaltige Entwicklung ? Ressourcenabbau ? Umweltsicherheit ? Lastenteilung ? Green Economy ? Ökologische Nachhaltigkeit ? Beteiligung ? Ressource ? Umweltqualität ? Umweltrecht ? Globale Aspekte ? Umweltgerechtigkeit ? Zivilgesellschaft ? Entscheidungsprozess ? Handlungsbeteiligter ? Handlungsverantwortung ? Konfliktanalyse ? Konfliktbewältigung ? FP7-SIS ?
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Englisch/English
Time ranges: 2011-03-01 - 2015-02-28
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