Through this we hope to dispel consumer blindness and suggest policy recommendations and consumption changes that will lead to more sustainable and ecological systems of production and exchange. The map will do this by revealing the spatiality of trade/production and consumption processes and through the visualization the connections between producers and consumers and between sources of sinks of resources, materials and energy.
Try out the functions of the Atlas in the frame below or go straight to the dedicated website for the Atlas.įinally, the map aims to investigate, understand and disseminate the causes and consequences of conflicts generated by the exploitation of natural resources, the generation of wastes and the degradation and commodification/privatization of environmental goods. Our goal is to make visible the voices fighting for environmental justice and to bring attention to threatened communities that are often rendered powerless by institutions and ignored by the media.
It will allow increased understanding of what the determinants of conflicts are and how material demands and policies create potential hot spots for future conflicts. It promises to become a reference for scientists, journalists, teachers and activists alike. In the last 3 years, the massive database behind the map has been carefully crafted by a team of over 100 scientists and activists all over the world. Any map you create using the search and filter can be embedded on your webpage or shared with friends on facebook. Click on any point and you’ll get everything from actors and a description to mobilization, outcome and sources.
In one click you find the 22 place where people have some issue with Shell or the 97 places where gold leads to some sort of conflict. With one click you get, for example, a global map with just the world’s nuclear, waste or water conflicts – depending on your interest. The Atlas of Environmental Justice is a practical and intuitive online platform that allows searching and filtering across 100 fields, as well as browsing by commodity, company, and type of conflict. One of the primary objectives of EJOLT is to compile and make available an Atlas of Environmental Justice.
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