Federico Demaria

I am an assistant professor of ecological economics and political ecology at the University of Barcelona. My main research interest is to understand the relationship between society, the environment and the economy. I am also an associate researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a prestigious interdisciplinary centre of environmental research (ranked 8th in environmental studies by the Center for World University Rankings and awarded as a unit of research excellence by the Spanish Ministry of Economy). I have consolidated experience in international and national competitive research projects. Until recently, I was the deputy coordinator of the ERC project EnvJustice (led by Prof. Joan Martinez-Alier) which maps and analyses the social conflicts between the environment and the economy.

Overall, I have published more than 20 articles in highly ranked journals in socio-environmental sciences like Ecological Economics, Global Environmental Change, and Sustainability Science, 15 book chapters, as well as edited 5 special issues and 2 successful books (one of which translated into more than 10 languages). My last book is "The case for degrowth" with Kallis, Paulson and D'Alisa. I am an editor for the journal of Sustainability Science. I have proven experience in teaching and mentoring, which I consider an essential part of my professional and intellectual activity.

I have given over 100 talks and presentations in more than 25 countries mainly at scientific conferences, but also for the general public and policymakers, including at the House of Commons, Oxford University, and the European Commission. I am also active on academic social networks with personal profiles at Academia.edu and ResearchGate (with more than 65.000 and 30.000 views, respectively). Lastly, aiming to ensure a wide outreach of my research, I regularly publish press articles in English, Spanish, French and Italian, in newspapers like The Guardian, The Ecologist, The Conversation, Open Democracy, eldiario.es (Spain) and Mediapart (France).

BOOKS

Kallis, G., Paulson, S., D’Alisa, G., Demaria, F. (2020) The case for degrowth. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Kothari, A., Salleh, A., Escobar, A., Demaria, F. and Acosta Alberto (eds) (2019) Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary. Delhi, India: Authors Up Front / Tulika / Columbia University Press.

Translated into Spanish and Italian. Foreign editions of this book are forthcoming in Portuguese and French.

D'Alisa, G., Demaria, F., Kallis, G. (eds) (2014) Degrowth: a vocabulary for a new era. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. Book citations: 471.

This book has been translated into Spanish, Catalan, French, Dutch, German, Korean, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Slovenian, Turkish, Polish and Portuguese. Soon it will also be published into Chinese. See https://vocabulary.degrowth.org/foreign-editions/

SELECTED SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

Scheidel, A., Del Bene, D. Liu, J., Navas, G.; Mingorria, S.; Demaria, F.; Avila, S.; Roy, B.; Ertor, I.; Temper, L.; and Martinez-Alier, J. (2020) Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview. Global Environmental Change 63: 102104. Impact factor (JCR): 10.427; SJR: 4.38; CiteScore: 10.29.

Schindler, S. and Demaria, F. (2020) ‘Garbage is gold’: Waste-based commodity frontiers, modes of valorization and ecological distribution conflicts. Capitalism, Nature and Socialism 31(4). DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2019.1694553 Impact factor (JCR): 2.965; SJR: 0.804; CiteScore: 1.15.

Demaria, F.; Kallis, G. and Bakker, K. (2019) Geographies of degrowth: Nowtopias, resurgences and the decolonization of imaginaries and places. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2(3): 431–450.

Akbulut, B.; Demaria, F.; Gerber, JF. and Martinez Alier, J. (2019) Who promotes sustainability? Five Theses on the Relationships Between the Degrowth and the Environmental Justice Movements. Ecological Economics 165: 106418. Impact factor (JCR): 2.965; SJR: 1.712; CiteScore: 3.59.

Temper, L.; Demaria, F.; Scheidel, A.; Del Bene, D. and Martinez-Alier, J. (2018) The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability. Sustainability Science 13(3): 573-584. Impact factor: 3.459; SJR: 1.096; CiteScore: 2.99. Article citations: 20.

Scheidel, A., Temper, L., Demaria, F. and Martínez-Alier, J. (2018) Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework. Sustainability Science 13(3): 585-598. Impact factor: 3.459; SJR: 1.096; CiteScore: 2.99. Article citations: 30.

Beling, A., Vanhulst, J., Demaria, F., Rabid, V., Carballo, AE. and Pelenc, J. (2018). Discursive synergies for a ‘Great Transformation’ towards sustainability: pragmatic contributions to a necessary dialogue between Human Development, Degrowth, and Buen Vivir. Ecological Economics 144: 304-313. Impact factor (JCR): 2.965; SJR: 1.712; CiteScore: 3.59. Article citations: 27.

Demaria, F. and Kothari, A. (2017) The Post-Development Dictionary agenda: paths to the pluriverse. Third World Quarterly 38: 2588-2599. Impact factor (JCR): 1.156; SJR: 1.156; CiteScore: 1.85; Article citations: 23.

Martinez-Alier, J., Demaria, F., Temper, L., and Walter, M. (2016). Changing social metabolism and environmental conflicts in India and South America. Journal of Political Ecology 23: 467-491. Impact factor (JCR): 2.66; SJR: 0.832; CiteScore: 2.08. Article citations: 14.

Demaria, F., Schindler, S. (2015). Contesting urban metabolism: struggles over waste-to-energy in Delhi, India. Antipode. A Radical Journal of Geography 48 (2): 293–313. Impact factor (JCR): 2.413; SJR: 2.598; CiteScore: 2.87. Article citations: 51.

Kothari, A., Demaria, F., Acosta, A. (2015) Alternatives to Sustainable Development and the Green Economy: Buen Vivir, Eco-Swaraj and Degrowth. Development 57(3-4): 362-375. SJR: 0.168; CiteScore: 0.32. Article citations: 115.

Asara, V., Otero, I., Demaria, F. and Corbera, E. (2015) Socially sustainable Degrowth as a Social-Ecological Transformation. Repoliticizing Sustainability. Sustainability Science 10 (3): 375-384. Impact factor: 3.459; SJR: 1.096; CiteScore: 2.99. Article citations: 124.

J. Martinez-Alier, I. Anguelovski, P. Bond, D. Del Bene, F. Demaria, J.F. Gerber, L. Greyl, W. Haase, H. Healy, V. Marín-Burgos, G.U. Ojo, M.F. Porto, L. Rijnhout, B. Rodríguez-Labajos, J. Spangenberg, L. Temper, R. Warlenius, I. Yánez (2014) Between activism and science: grassroots concepts for sustainability coined by Environmental Justice Organizations. Journal of Political Ecology 21. Impact factor (JCR): 2.66; SJR: 0.832; CiteScore: 2.08. Article citations: 175.

Martinez-Alier, J., Temper, L., Demaria, F. (2014) Social Metabolism and Environmental Conflicts in India. Indialogs, Spanish Journal of India Studies 1(1): 51-83. Available at: http://revistes.uab.cat/indialogs

A previous version of the article has also been published by the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi, India (NMML Occasional Paper, Perspectives in Indian Development, New Series 32).

D'Alisa, G., Demaria, F., Cattaneo, C. (2013). Civil and Uncivil Actors for a Degrowth Society. Journal of Civil Society 9 (2): 212-224. Special Issue 'Citizens vs. Markets: How Civil Society is Rethinking the Economy in a Time of Crises'. Impact factor: 1.22; SJR: 0.492; CiteScore: 0.76. Article citations: 53.

Demaria, F., Schneider, F., Sekulova, F. and Martinez-Alier, J. (2013). What is degrowth? From an activist slogan to a social movement. Environmental Values 22 (2): 191-215. This article has been translated to Spanish, Greek, Italian and German. Impact factor (JCR): 1.279; SJR: 0.559; CiteScore: 1.17. Article citations: 376.

Schindler, S., Demaria, F., Bhushan, S. (2012). Delhi Waste Conflict. Economic and Political Weekly XLVII: 42, pp. 18-21. SJR: 0.295; CiteScore: 0.19. Article citations: 24.

Demaria, F. (2010). Shipbreaking at Alang-Sosiya (India): an ecological distribution distribution conflict. Ecological economics 70 (2), pp. 250-260. Impact factor (JCR): 2.965; SJR: 1.712; CiteScore: 3.59. Article citations: 110.