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Ernest Garcia (Alacant, 1948). Professor emeritus of the University of Valencia, where he has been professor of sociology, director of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and coordinator of ESDESOST (research group in Sustainability Studies). He is the author of El trampolí fàustic: Ciència, mite i poder en el desenvolupament sostenible (1995); Medio ambiente y sociedad: La civilización industrial y los límites del planeta (2004); Transitioning to a Post-Carbon Society: Degrowth, Austerity and Wellbeing (2017); Ecología e igualdad: Hacia una relectura de la teoría sociológica en un planeta que se ha quedado pequeño (2021). He has been a member of the coordination committee of the network on Environment and Society of the European Sociological Association and president of the Associació Valenciana de Sociologia.
Source: Fernando López Heptener, La presa de Aldeadávila, 1963, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X_yduTT1EQ. Spain is one of the countries with the largest number of dams, about 1,200. Many were built during Franco’s dictatorship as part of his emblematic hydraulic policy, aimed at addressing post-war social, economic, and energy crises. Aside from the failed autarkic economic project, this…
Photograph: Elena Lavellés. Cranes at the Valdemingómez landfill. Documentation visit 2024. The limits of nature are dissolved under layers of cement, CO2 emitted into the atmosphere and waste produced from the activity of human beings. This overview leads us to a new vision that exceeds our capacity of comprehension and places us on the edge…
On the occasion of the exhibition ‘Archivo ecologista. Memoria y cultura visual del ecologismo en Valencia durante los años setenta’, held at the Centro La Nau of the University of Valencia between March and June of this year, a book-catalogue has been published which presents both the materials of the exhibition and, more broadly, a…