Monday 4/7/2011 Giorgos Kallis (ICTA-UAB). Environmental Conflict Analysis: the Ecological Economics Approach.

1. Giorgos Kallis, ICREA Professor Environmental Conflict Analysis The approach of Ecological Economics 2 nd International Summer School on Environmental Conflicts and Justice 4 July 2011. Barcelona, Spain Institute of Environmental Science and Technology Autonomous University of Barcelona

2. Introduce to you the distinctive analytical approach to environmental conflicts that we follow here in Barcelona and by comparison, orient you to the different approaches that will be covered in this School.

7. (Social) Ecological Economics

9. Main features

10. Unit of analysis Canadian-owned copper mine in Mirador, Ecuador

11. Vocabulary

13. Analytics Seeing a social decision outcome as a multi-criteria process where power and institutions decide the relevant “weights” of values/criteria

14. Methods

15. Normative/epistemological position

16. Vedanta vs. the villagers

18. Political Ecology

19. Conflict and peace studies

20. Comparison BCN OSLO MCH Unit of analysis Conflict Countries Territories - communities Scale Local (Inter)National Multi-scale Conflict intensity Low to medium Violent All (incl. silenced) Conflict type Extraction, plantations, infrastructures, waste Climate variation, water Land-use, cities, commodification, water, energy and minerals Causes Social metabolism Injustice Multiple Underdevelopment & Poor governance Capitalism Exploitation (Post)colonization Method/sources Case-studies Action research National regressions Case-studies Discourse analysis Seeing like: Protesters Western scientists Working class the Marginalized Theory Ecological Economics International studies Marxism Post-structuralism View of conflict Productive Bad Good Response Environmental Justice Degrowth Development Liberal Democracy Revolution Real democracy

22. Research directions

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