The 2023 Holberg Prize was awarded to Catalan scholar Joan Martinez-Alier for his groundbreaking research in ecological economics, political ecology and environmental justice.

Martinez-Alier is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). In this interview, he talks about his academic scholarship and activism.

Interviewer: Professor Håvard Haarstad, Department of Geography, University of Bergen.

For more information see the Holberg Prize website: https://holbergprize.org/en.

Photo: Eivind Senneset