In this episode, GDI's Armando Caroca and Rose Pritchard speak with Joan Martínez-Alier, an economist and emeritus professor of economics and senior researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Throughout his career, Joan has made important contributions to ecological economics and political ecology in his work on environmentalism of the poor. In this episode, we discuss Joan's new book: 'Land, Water, Air, and Freedom: The Making of a World Movement for Environmental Justice'  which can be found here. 

Armando Caroca is a GDI PhD researcher working on topics of mining waste and territories of extraction in Chile.

Rose Pritchard is a Presidential Fellow in Socio-Environmental Systems at GDI. 

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