2002 non-fiction book by Joan Martinez Alier
The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation is a 2002 non-fiction book by Joan Martinez Alier about the environmentalism of the poor.
Publication
The Environmentalism of the Poor was written by Joan Martinez Alier, an ecological economist[1] and a professor emeritus of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.[2] The 328-page book was published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2002.[3][1]
Synopsis
The book documents advocacy and efforts of environmental justice and organized labour efforts in Latin America and Asia.[1] Examples cover the 19th-century onwards.[1] In the book, Martinez Alier links environmental harm to industrialisation and economic growth.[2] He notes how the harm impacts populations inequitably.[2]
Critical reception
Varun Nayar writing for Himal Southasian described the book as an "influential framework".[4] Pat Devine, writing in Environmental Values described the book as "wonderful" noting it to be "rich inn empirical details, full of theoretical insights, offering hope in a bleak world, altogether inspiring".[5]
Natalie Oswin from the University of British Columbia, writing in Antipode journal, criticised the author's for a lack of critique of neo-Malthusianism and for "homogenised notion of the 'poor.'"[1]
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