the article starts from a critical analysis of the concept of sustainable development. Through a diachronic reconstruction of the use of this concept in the most important international documents about climate change and environmental protection, the author underlines its oxymoronic nature. Nevertheless, the UN are also dedicating some minor efforts in supporting a change in the global epistemological paradigm, through the creation of the Harmony with Nature Programme (HwN), whose aims are described in more details. Finally, the last part of the article is dedicated to the analysis of some communitarian legal instruments of land management, still used in many parts of Europe, like “partecipanza” or “collective meadows and fields”. In her conclusions, the author suggests that rediscovering our chtonic traditions, rooted in a balanced relationship between natural resources exploitation and respect for the natural process of regeneration is the core idea of true sustainability, the ultimate concept that we have to free from the strings of economic growth.
Back to the future: building harmony with nature in the European Union by learning from our ancestors
Silvia Bagni
2020
Abstract
the article starts from a critical analysis of the concept of sustainable development. Through a diachronic reconstruction of the use of this concept in the most important international documents about climate change and environmental protection, the author underlines its oxymoronic nature. Nevertheless, the UN are also dedicating some minor efforts in supporting a change in the global epistemological paradigm, through the creation of the Harmony with Nature Programme (HwN), whose aims are described in more details. Finally, the last part of the article is dedicated to the analysis of some communitarian legal instruments of land management, still used in many parts of Europe, like “partecipanza” or “collective meadows and fields”. In her conclusions, the author suggests that rediscovering our chtonic traditions, rooted in a balanced relationship between natural resources exploitation and respect for the natural process of regeneration is the core idea of true sustainability, the ultimate concept that we have to free from the strings of economic growth.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
