The CEECEC Newsletter of November 2009 has just been published. Click here to read it!

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Inside you will find:

updates on case studies drafted by civil society organisations (CSOs) in collaboration with ecological economists. These studies will form the basis of the development of unique on-line interactive ecological economics teaching/learning materials based on CSO work. Some of the case studies featured are:

Environmental Justice and Ecological Debt in Belgium: The UMICORE case (VODO)
Aid, Social Metabolism and Social Conflict in the Nicobar Islands (UNI UKL)
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in India from the Bottom-Up (CSE)
Mechanisms in Support of the Creation and Consolidation Of Protected Areas in Mato Grosso, Brazil: The Potential Of Redd And Legal Reserve Compensation (REBRAF)

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You can also:

* learn more about the eco-mafia in Italy (which made 31 million tones waste “disappear” in 2008, an amount sufficient to construct a pyramid three hectares wide and 3100 meters high!)

* see a talk on youtube about the movement for environmental justice in Latin America

* watch a video on a case study in India,

* download a report on environmental conflicts in South-Eastern Europe

* and many things more…

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News titles included are:

1. CEECEC’s VODO meets with UMICORE CEO on Ecological Debt in Hoboken

2. Updates on CEECEC’S TAV Turin-Lyon Case Study

3. Legambiente Presents Ecomafia Report 2009

4. Finalisation of Case Studies for Online Interactive Ecological Economics Course

5. Acción Ecológica Legal Status Completely Restored

6. CEECEC director Joan Martinez Alier addresses the Peruvian Centre for Social Studies (CEPES) in Lima Peru

7. CEECEC partner Endemit on the Airwaves

8. Watch Hiware Bazar Millionaires by CEECEC’s Leah Temper

9. CEECEC Workshop at ESEE Biennial Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia July 2009

10. CEECEC at ‘Ecological Economics and the Crisis’, Rome, Italy, June 2009

11. CEECEC Project Publishes Report on Environmental Conflicts and Issues in South-Eastern Europe