Book. Socio-environmental conflicts and just transitions in the 21st century
Authors:
Pablo Vommaro. Gloria Amézquita. [Editors]
Valeria Becerra Sepúlveda. Elizabeth Jiménez Cortés. Gonzalo Escobar Arevalo. Bruna Gonçalves Costa. Diego Oyarzo De Toro. Bernardo Mançano Fernandes. Maria Eduarda Grecco Bejarano. Lorena Izá Pereira. Wuelliton Felipe Peres Lima. Fernanda Aparecida Matheus. Valmir Ulisses Sebastião. Jourdy Victoria James Heredia. Faustino Cobarrubia Gómez. Osleidys Torres Valdespino. Alejandro Aguilar Nava. Juan Gómez de la Torre Barúa. María Virginia Avila. Urphy Vásquez Baca. Raúl Anthony Olmedo Neri. Marx José Gomez Liendo. Carlos Escudero-Nuñez. Adriana Gómez Bonilla. Marhylda Victoria Rivero Corona. Angelica Rico Montoya. Horacio Machado Aráoz. Leonardo Javier Rossi. Aimée Martínez Vega. Camila Parodi. Adriana Delgado. Diego Montalvo. Andrea Carrión. Juan Pablo Becerra Hurtado. [Chapter Authors]
Felipe Milanez. Gabriela Wyczykier. Hugo Pereira. [Authors of Prologue]
Pablo Vommaro. Gloria Amézquita. Teresa Arteaga. [Presentation]
Latin America and the Caribbean have historically been global suppliers of raw materials and minerals key to the current digital and energy transition, perpetuating an extractive model that deepens inequalities and exacerbates the socio-ecological crisis. The result of a research call promoted by CLACSO, this book addresses socio-environmental conflicts and just transitions in the 21st century, focusing on the tensions between hegemonic models—promoted by the Global North—and the territorial resistance movements that challenge them.
Through case studies located in Argentina (lithium), Ecuador (balsa wood), the Peruvian Amazon (clean technologies), Cuba (food security) and the Southern Cone (Brazil and Chile), the authors show how the dominant energy transition reproduces dispossession, dependence and corporate control under the discourse of "decarbonization".
From the perspective of Latin American Political Ecology, this volume offers a critical diagnosis and, at the same time, proposes pathways for transitions that conceive of energy as a right, recognize local knowledge, and aim for truly just models. It is an invitation to imagine and challenge futures where social and environmental justice go hand in hand.
Research Calls Collection.
ISBN 978-631-308-188-2
CLACSO.
Buenos Aires.
December 2025
