Abstract

To deal with environmental problems, quality of life and the state of the world, it is mandatory to develop institutional capacity, judicial neutrality, informational transparency and social spaces for civic engagement. Challenges are more civic and political than technical: lock-ins and barriers to change depend on the paradigms of growth, power, wealth, work and freedom embedded into the political, technological, economic, social, cultural and educational institutions. Inequality cannot be solved by market-based solutions or isolated public or private sectors; it requires a change of asymmetric power relations and resource distribution. Wealthy elites, multinational corporations translate their economic power into political access and influence government decisions, further entrenching their advantage. States must enshrine in their laws the duties of corporations towards the environment throughout their operations worldwide To bridge the gap between economy and ecology, restoration, landscape management, should be linked to new forms of being in the world. Objectives should encompass all dimensions of being in the world (intimate, interactive, social and biophysical), as they combine to elicit the events, suffer the consequences and organize for change. International treaties should hold transnational corporations to account for environmental violations. To create international collaborative ecosystem partnerships, we must deal with how land retrieval affects the retrieve of people and how retrieve of people affects retrieve of the land. A network of sustainability leaders, scholars, academicians, students, youth movements, community groups, activists, policy-makers, civil, non-profit organizations and practitioners should be involved in view of political, economic, environmental, and societal commitments.

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

2020 Special Focus—Embedded Natures: Human Environments and Ecosystemic Effects

KEYWORDS

Environment, Policies, Education, Ecosystems, Paradigms

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