Transforming knowledge creation for environmental and epistemic justice

More dams, more violence? A global analysis on resistances and repression around conflictive dams through co-produced knowledge

“…To address this challenge, we base our research on grounded knowledge, co-produced between academics and environmental justice organizations, which include empirical evidences, direct testimonies, published reports, academic papers documenting community's claims when faced with conflictive projects. We present an analysis of a unique database of 220 dam related environmental conflicts, registered in the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice -EJAtlas (Temper et al, 2015;Temper and Del Bene, 2016). To our knowledge, this is by far the largest database currently available on conflictive dams globally, constructed through co-produced knowledge.…”

The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability

“…The atlas thus aimed to systematize and to distill within a concise and codified structure these stories of struggle, acknowledging the limited range of spatial and narrative illustrations to express the struggles, desires and values of the communities within such a GIS format (for a discussion of co-design and co-production of knowledge, see Temper and Del Bene 2016). At the same time, the EJAtlas aimed to transcend the "case study based approach" of most political ecology and EJ literature through the creation of a tool that could help identify patterns, relationships among multiple cases and actors and describe how such conflicts are shaped by the larger political economy.…”

Learning and Teaching Through the Online Environmental Justice Atlas: From Empowering Activists to Motivating Students

“…As such, we claim that the EJAtlas is a tool that allows students to learn from and engage with the global Environmental Justice movement (Martinez‐Alier et al. 2016; Temper and Del Bene 2016).…”

“…(…) The atlas documents social conflict related to claims against perceived negative social or environmental impacts with the following criteria: Economic activity or legislation with actual or potential negative environmental and social outcomes; Claim and mobilization by environmental justice organization (s) that such harm occurred or is likely to occur as a result of that activity; Reporting of that particular conflict in one or more media stories. (Environmental Justice Altas 2018) The Data Sheet or Form (with five or six pages of information) which is used to add cases was developed collaboratively between scholars and activists in the EJOLT project (EJOLT 2018) at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2011–2015) (Temper, Del Bene, and Martinez‐Alier 2015, Temper and Del Bene 2016). Cases can be added across ten main categories: Nuclear energy; Mineral Ores and Building Materials Extractions; Waste Management; Biomass and Land Conflicts; Fossil Fuels and Climate Justice/Energy; Water Management; Infrastructure and Built Environment; Tourism Recreation; Biodiversity Conservation Conflicts; and, Industrial and Utilities Conflicts.…”