Environmental Justice Atlas
The environmental justice atlas is a website developed by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the University of Barcelona (ICTA), with support of the research projects ENVJUST and ACKnowl-EJ (Academic-Activist Co-Production of Knowledge for Environmental Justice). The website contains a map of environmental conflicts around the world, which took place from 1920 to the present day. The conflicts involve social mobilizations in opposition to economic activities and/or legislation that damages the environment and have been published in the media. Its purpose is to make such mobilizations visible, since they are frequently criminalized and operate as conflicts in which social organizations and citizens are mostly not included in decision-making processes. In this way, the site gathers information regarding citizen opposition to extractive economic models that in several cases violate human rights. The data for the cases included in the map is provided collaboratively by social organizations, citizens and academics and then registered by the ICTA. The database contains general information on the cases, details abound the conflict drivers and the actors involved, references to related legislation, as well as videos and images, that are made available to anyone interested in the subject of "environmental justice". In addition to the general map, ICTA develops, with other research centers, maps focused on special topics (for example, environmental damage carried out by specific companies in several regions). The website also offers users a forum to comment and discuss each case.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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