Joan Martinez Alier
Joan Martinez Alier (born 1939, Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish economist, Professor of Economics and Economic History and researcher at ICTA at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.[1] He is the author of Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society (1990).[2] and The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation (2002).[3]
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Biography
Martinez Alier has been a researcher a St. Anthony's College Oxford (1966–73 and 1984–85), visiting professor at the State University of Campinas (Brasil) in 1974, the Free University of Berlin (1980-81), Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, (1988–89), Yale University (1999-2001), and FLACSO Sede-Ecuador (1994–95 and 2007-15).[4]
He is a founding member and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics. He was a member (2000–08) of the European Environment Agency Scientific Committee.[5]
He is also co-editor of Getting down to earth: practical applications of Ecological Economics (1996), Rethinking Environmental History. World-System History and Global Environmental Change (2007), Recent Developments in Ecological Economics (2008), and of the series Ecological Economics and Human Well-Being with Oxford U.P., Delhi.
He directed the research projects CEECEC and EJOLT between 2008 and 2015, is co-director of the EJAtlas, an atlas of environmental conflicts www.ejatlas.org, and in 2016 he received a European Research Council Grant 2016-21 for the project A Global Environmental Justice Movement - The EJAtlas.
Ecological economics
In late seventies Martinez Alier became interested in the agricultural energetics work of Sergei Podolinsky (1850-1891), publishing a text on this with J.M. Naredo in 1982. [6]
Selected publications (in English)
- 1971: Labourers and Landowners in Southern Spain
- 1977: Haciendas, Plantations and Collective Farms (Cuba and Peru)
- 1990: Ecological economics: energy, environment and society
- 1994: The environment as a luxury good or "to poor to be green"?
- 1996: Getting down to earth: practical applications of ecological economics (with Robert Costanza and Olman Segura)
- 1997: Varieties of Environmentalism. Essays North and South (with Ramachandra Guha)
- 2002: The Environmentalism of the Poor: A study of ecological conflicts and valuation
- 2007: Rethinking Environmental History: World-Systems History and Global Environmental Change (with Alf Hornborg and John Mc Neill)
- 2008: Recent Developments in Ecological Economics 2 vols. (with Inge Ropke)
- 2012: Ecological Economics from the Ground Up (with Hali Healy et al.)
- 2015: Handbook of Ecological Economics (with Roldan Muradian)
Interviews (in English)
- Interview with Lorenzo Pellegrini in Development & Change, 2012
- Ecological Economics, Video Interview at The Montreal Degrowth Conference 2012
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- ↑ Alier, Joan M. and Naredo, Jose M., (1982) "A Marxist Precursor to Energy Economics: Podolinsky" Journal of Peasant Studies, 9: 207-224.
