Joan Martinez Alier

Who is Joan Martinez Alier?

Joan Martinez Alier is a Catalan economist, Professor of Economics and Economic History and researcher at ICTA at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is the author of Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society. and The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation.

Martinez Alier has been a researcher a St. Anthony's College Oxford, visiting professor at the State University of Campinas in 1974, the Free University of Berlin, Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, Yale University, and FLACSO Sede-Ecuador.

He is a founding member and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics. He was a member of the European Environment Agency Scientific Committee.

He is also co-editor of Getting down to earth: practical applications of Ecological Economics, Rethinking Environmental History. World-System History and Global Environmental Change, Recent Developments in Ecological Economics, and of the series Ecological Economics and Human Well-Being with Oxford U.P., Delhi.