The Holberg Laureate LIVE: 'World Environmental Conflicts and Justice'

On 9 June, 2023, the day after receiving the Holberg Prize in Bergen, Laureate Joan Martinez-Alier will join Professor Mariel Aguilar-Støen, of the University of Oslo, in conversation at the House of Literature in Oslo. The conversation topic is chosen by the Laureate. Topic: "World Environmental Conflicts and Justice" Social Metabolism, Ecological Distribution Conflicts and Valuation Contests in the Environmental Justice Movements arising worldwide. Economic growth goes together with growth and changes in the flows of energy and materials. The industrial economy is not circular, it is entropic. This gives rise to conflicts at the frontiers of commodity extraction and waste disposal. A world movement for environmental justice is arising whose protagonists are involved in disputes over similar commodities, they resort to similar repertoires of action, they display a variety of valuation languages (often opposed to economic valuation). https://holbergprize.org/en/holberg-laureate-live-world-environmental-conflicts-and-justice Photo: Joan Vidal / University of Oslo.