The 'Environmentalism of the Poor' revisited: Territory and place in disconnected glocal struggles

Ecological Economics

Volumn 102, Issue , 2014, Pages 167-176

  Anguelovski, Isabelle ^a   Martínez Alier, Joan ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental justice; Environmentalism of the poor; Identity; Land speculation; Place re making; Social metabolism; Valuation languages; Varieties of environmentalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899855297     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.04.005     Document Type: Article

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