Silvia Bagni, Giorgia Pavani, Amilcare D'Andrea
LUMEN will demonstrate that the ecosystem approach, originally introduced for the protection of biodiversity, can be used as the backbone of a comprehensive transcultural and transnational eco-legal system, due to the existence of a common cultural background beyond the appearing “fracture” between man and nature that characterizes the Anthropocene’s crisis. This assumption will be demonstrated through the analysis of the innovations coming from Latin America and Africa, based on integral and unitary visions on “man and nature”, and the traces of the ecosystem approach in environmental laws of European States. Even though current environmental law system is falling short to offer adequate solutions to such crisis, the law remains a strategic asset to foster social, economic, cultural transformation, and shall contribute to build a comprehensive and holistic response to safeguard the “higher interest” of the interconnected globe and all its human and non-human components. LUMEN aims at exploring and defining the existing common ground for the ecosystem approach through the comparative analysis of case studies from Europe, Latin America and Africa with the purpose of translating it into a viable and inclusive model for future normativity, in Europe and beyond.
PRIN PNRR 2022