Joan Martinez-Alier

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

• Law
• Sustainability
• Capitalism

Joan Martinez-Alier mainly investigates Natural resource economics, Ecological economics, Environmentalism, Sustainability and Degrowth. Her research integrates issues of Natural resource, Environmental resource management, Environmental sociology and Livelihood in her study of Natural resource economics. Joan Martinez-Alier combines subjects such as Argument, Commensurability, Operationalization and Rationality with her study of Ecological economics.

Joan Martinez-Alier works mostly in the field of Environmentalism, limiting it down to topics relating to Land grabbing and, in certain cases, Environmental justice, Economic growth, Environmental racism, Political economy and Climate justice. She has included themes like Economic system, Economy and World population in her Sustainability study. The study incorporates disciplines such as Environmental ethics and Social movement in addition to Degrowth.

Her most cited work include:

• The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation (738 citations)
• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Recent Instances for Debate (605 citations)
• Weak Comparability of Values as a Foundation for Ecological Economics (538 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Joan Martinez-Alier mostly deals with Ecological economics, Environmental justice, Environmental ethics, Political ecology and Natural resource economics. The Environmental justice study which covers Livelihood that intersects with Ecosystem services. Her Environmental ethics research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Sustainability, Degrowth, Social movement, Environmentalism and Social science.

Her studies deal with areas such as Economy and Sustainable development as well as Sustainability. Her Degrowth research focuses on Economic growth and how it relates to Politics. As a part of the same scientific family, Joan Martinez-Alier mostly works in the field of Natural resource economics, focusing on Natural resource and, on occasion, Development economics.

She most often published in these fields:

• Ecological economics (23.88%)
• Environmental justice (23.13%)
• Environmental ethics (19.40%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

• Environmental justice (23.13%)
• Environmental ethics (19.40%)
• Ecological distribution (5.22%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Joan Martinez-Alier mainly focuses on Environmental justice, Environmental ethics, Ecological distribution, Development economics and Political ecology. In Environmental justice, she works on issues like Sustainability, which are connected to Conceptual framework. Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Social movement and Degrowth.

The Ecological distribution study combines topics in areas such as Latin Americans, Social metabolism and Environmental planning. In her research on the topic of Development economics, Diversification, Livelihood, Criminalization, Environmentalism and Grassroots is strongly related with Indigenous. Her study focuses on the intersection of Political ecology and fields such as Peasant with connections in the field of Politics, Hegemony, Economy and Environmental racism.

Between 2016 and 2021, her most popular works were:

• Energy and climate change (215 citations)
• Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework. (68 citations)
• The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability (49 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

• Law
• Sustainability
• Capitalism

Joan Martinez-Alier focuses on Environmental justice, Sustainability, Sustainable development, Environmental ethics and Landscape ecology. Her Environmental justice research includes themes of Indigenous and Diversification. Her Sustainability study combines topics in areas such as Livelihood, Criminalization, Development economics, Environmentalism and Grassroots.

Her Environmental ethics study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Economic Justice, Social movement and Degrowth. Her Social movement research includes elements of Resource, Overdevelopment, Overconsumption, Prosperity and Environmental politics. Her work carried out in the field of Degrowth brings together such families of science as Mainstream, Stakeholder and Injustice.