Ecological Integrity and Land Uses. Sovereignty, Governance, Displacements and Land Grabs
Aula Nicola Cilento
Nei prossimi 26 -30 June 2018 si svolgerà presso l’Aula Cilento la 26° Conferenza del “Global Ecological Integrity Group”. L’incontro internazionale è organizzato dal Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG) con il DSG del nostro Ateneo, in collaborazione con ELSA Salerno e con l’ADISURC.
International Conference
The Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG), in collaboration with the University of Salerno, has organized an international conference on "Ecological Integrity and Land Uses: Sovereignty, Governance, Displacements and Land Grabs". The event provides an opportunity for pushing the boundaries of scholarly endeavour through inter- and trans-disciplinary engagement on matters affecting and governing the sustainability of life for both present and future generations.
The conference will be held in Salerno on 26-30 June 2018, and will be organised into seven Plenary sessions. The first, delineating the legal framework of the debate, will focus on the role and function of precautionary principle; the second will be about the Rights of Nature and the Commons; the third on Land and the Right of the Commons; the fourth on the Right to the Commons and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights; the fifth on State and Environmental Disasters; the sixth on Ecological Integrity: Land and Water Issues; the seventh on the Role of Society, Religion and Traditional Chair, Knowledge in Ecological Governance.
Conference aim
Current debates on environment and health are opening new views on this topic. Studies published in recent years have begun to reconstruct the connection between environment and human rights, developing a more complex profile than had been previously theorized. However, there remain notable difficulties in offering a global vision of the phenomena, linked to economic choices deeply.
Based on the proposition that healthy, functioning ecosystems are a prerequisite for both economic security and social justice, the Conference is built around the concept of ecological integrity and its practical implications for policy and management.
The Conference provides an opportunity for encounter and reflection, serving as a tool not only to examine the relationships among ecological integrity, human health, and food production, but also to look at economic and ethical issues that have to be considered in protecting ecological integrity, while offering concrete recommendations for promoting social and economic justice and welfare.
The aim of the Conference is to promote the integration of the different analyses and so gain further understanding of phenomena related to environment, health, indigenous rights and human rights in general.
The Conference has been structured in thematic sections, opening with a presentation on the precautionary principle and its legal implications for interpreters and legislators. The Conference is an occasion to debate on ethics, law and science via multidisciplinary approaches. It represents an opportunity to delineate an overall vision of the phenomena and will results in a publication with selected presenters, launched at the following year's meeting.
