Seminar: "Social Metabolism and Valuation Disputes", by Joan Martinez Alier in Oxford
Event details
- Start: 21 May 2024 16:30
Seminar: "Social Metabolism and Valuation Disputes"
Speaker: Dr Joan Martínez-Alier, ICTA-UAB researcher
Date:Tuesday 21 May 2024
Time: 4.30pm - 6.30pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
The industrial economy is not circular. It is entropic, with an enormous "entropy hole" or "circularity gap" at its centre. This is the main cause of the conflicts at the frontiers of commodity extraction and waste disposal. We elicit the different social values displayed at such conflicts.
Joan Martinez-Alier is an Emeritus Professor of Economics and Economic History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He was awarded a Balzan prize in 2020 and the Holberg prize in 2023 as a scholar of ecological economics, political ecology and environmental justice. He is widely recognized as one of the most authoritative scholars in environmental studies.