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Community forest rights in Nigeria - Recommendations for CSOs
As part of a multi-country review of community forest rights, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria conducted a review of community forest rights in Nigeria. In this policy brief we summarize some of the main outcomes of the review, and the consequent recommendations for CSOs
Between activism and science: Grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations
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In their own battles and strategy meetings since the early 1980s, EJOs (environmental justice organizations)
and their networks have introduced several concepts to political ecology that have also been taken up by
academics and policy makers. In this paper, we explain the contexts in which such notions have arisen,
providing definitions of a wide array of concepts and slogans related to environmental inequities and
sustainability, and explore the connections and relations between them. These concepts include:
environmental justice, ecological debt, popular epidemiology, environmental racism, climate justice,
environmentalism of the poor, water justice, biopiracy, food sovereignty, "green deserts", "peasant
agriculture cools downs the Earth", land grabbing, Ogonization and Yasunization, resource caps, corporate
accountability, ecocide, and indigenous territorial rights, among others. We examine how activists have
coined these notions and built demands around them, and how academic research has in turn further applied
them and supplied other related concepts, working in a mutually reinforcing way with EJOs. We argue that
these processes and dynamics build an activist-led and co-produced social sustainability science, furthering
both academic scholarship and activism on environmental justic