Abstract

Rendering Earth to mankind and mankind to Earth, to solve the environmental, cultural, social, economic and political crisis, implies the change of the paradigms of growth, power, wealth, work, and freedom embedded into the political, technological, economic, social, cultural, and educational systems, a confrontation with vested interests, lock-ins and barriers sustained by non-ecosystemic ways of life. How can Earthbe retrieved (regenerate) by the retrieval (regeneration) of people? How can people be retrieved (regenerate) by the retrieval (regeneration) of Earth? How people are engaged as social, political, economic, and institutional actors? How the different forms of being in the world affect the process of change? “Being-in-the-world” encompasses people’s relationship with themselves (intimate dimension), people’s relationship with others (interactive dimension), people’s relationship with overall society (social dimension), people’s relationship with his environment (biophysical dimension). Public policies, advocacy, communication, research and teaching programmes should take into account all dimensions, as they combine to elicit the events, suffer the consequences and organize for change, a process of exploration, inquiry, and discovery, both in the academy and in society at large. In the socio-cultural learning niches, beyond generating new knowledge, from an epistemic, thematic, and practical point of view, people can face contended values, social, cultural political and economic constraints, in view of new scenarios, pathways and paradigms to trigger transformative changes that favours the development of Institutional capacity, judicial neutrality, informational transparency, and social spaces for civic engagement to face environmental problems, quality of life, and the state of the world.

Presenters

André Francisco Pilon
Associate Professor, Departamento de Gestão e Política de Saúde, University of São Paulo / International Academy of Science, Health and Ecology, São Paulo, Brazil

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Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Resources and Environment

KEYWORDS

Education, Politics, Economics, Ecosystems, Change

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