Joan Martinez Alier

Joan Martinez-Alier is a senior researcher in the Environmental Science and Technology Institute of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). He has edited the journal Ecología Política in Barcelona since 1990. His publications in English include: Ecological economics: energy, environment and society (1987); Varieties of environmentalism: Essays North and South (1997), with Ramachadra Guha; and The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation (2003). He edited with Roldan Muradian a Handbook of Ecological Economics (2015). He co-edited the textbook Ecological Economics from the Ground Up (2013), a product of a collaborative research project, CEECEC, 2008-2010, which was followed by the EJOLT project (2011-15), Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade involving 23 academic and activist partners (www.ejolt.org) (www.ejatlas.org). He was president of the International Society for Ecological Economics in 2006 and 2007. His research focuses on ecological economics, political ecology, agrarian studies, environmental justice and the environmentalism of the poor and the indigenous. In 2016 he was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant for the project EnvJustice (A global environmental justice movement), 2016-21, and in 2020 a Balzan prize. His latest book is “Land, Water. Air and Freedom: world movements for environmental justice”, in preparation.