Glossary
Please, see also:
The glossary of the project Landscape of resistance
• Commodity frontiers: new, geographically remote, territories from which raw materials are extracted, or where waste ends up.
• Commodity: Resources which used to exist and be used without paying a price for them, but which are now being traded and paid for (i.e, oil, aluminium, gold, timber)
• Social metabolism: Throughput of energy and material flows in a society.
• Treadmill of production: Continued need of the economy for capital investment in order to generate goods for sale on the market, which puts increasing pressure on natural resources and increases social inequalities
• Ecological distribution conflict: Conflict over relative access and use of environmental resources, as well as over environmental goods and bads
• Environmentalism of the poor: Communities defending environmental resources as source of livelihoods and life rather than for the cause of wilderness
• Languages of valuation: Different values used to evaluate socio-environmental outcomes (i.e., monetary, sacred, legal)
• Ecological debt: Debt owed by rich countries to poor countries for extracting material resources sold at prices that do not include compensation for externalities and ecosystem damages. Rich countries also make a disproportionate use of environmental space or services without payment and without recognition of communities’ rights
• Environmental injustices: Disproportional impact by hazards, contamination, resource extraction, and climate change as well as unequal access to environmental amenities and goods suffered by low-income communities or communities of colour
• Environmental racism: intentional or unintentional harm suffered by populations of color because of projects or policies negatively affecting their health and environment
• Risk positions: Exposure of certain populations and communities to risks related to ecological degradation
• Transnational Advocacy Networks: Actors working internationally on an issue who are bound together by shared values, common discourse, and dense exchange of information and services.
• Strategic Repertoire of Action and Contention: direct action (protest, demonstrations, boycotts, denunciations, shaming, strikes, etc) and institutional means (lobbying, public hearings, campaigns, testimonies, political pressures during elections, etc) that groups and movements use to advance their goals and objectives.
Please, see also Giorgos Kaliis' presnetation for the summer school https://www.slideshare.net/environmentalconflicts/environmental-conflict-analysis-the-ecological-economics-approach where you can find a glossary slide.