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norskBlar i forfatter Artikler, rapporter og annet (jus) "Poto, Margherita Paola"
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Achieving a Common Future for all Through Sustainability-Conscious Legal Education and Research Methods
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-02-21)This contribution explores ecological literacy as a critical facet of legal inquiry, focusing on expanding knowledge and practices oriented towards nature protection. Evolving to encompass interdisciplinarity and a systems-thinking approach, ecological literacy is crucial for achieving environmental sustainability. The study argues that integrating an approach promoting eco-responsible behaviors ... -
Balancing Agro-Fuels and Food Security on the Tightrope Towards Sustainability
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019)The demand for the utilization of agricultural resources for non-food purposes, such as feedstock, has been on the rise globally in recent times. This article seeks to examine the underlying reasons behind the boom in agricultural crops for biofuel feedstock. Cognizant of this peak in demand, the article aims to show how the right to adequate food is being restrained by large-scale land acquisition ... -
Beyond Borders and States: Modelling Ocean Connectivity According to Indigenous Cosmovisions
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-23)The article describes some common features of Indigenous sea cosmovisions (through examples from Oceania and the Arctic region), from which an understanding of ocean governance rooted in the interconnectedness of all life and the importance of protecting water and people emerges. Hence, the model of ocean (or water) connectivity is characterized by the understanding of ocean-human relationships as ... -
A Co-Created Methodological Approach to Address the Relational Dimension of Environmental Challenges: When Critical Legal Analysis Meets Illustrated Storytelling
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-29)Environmental education research needs to take into account the relational dimension of the ecological challenges of our time. It requires the development of methodological techniques that prioritize community concerns, and generally foster positive relational dynamics of the research and study group. This leads to the construction of a research and educational approach around the collective and ... -
Co-creazione della ricerca e del sapere nel sistema dell’ecologia integrale
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)“Nella mia prima conferenza ero partito dai poemi di Lucrezio e di Ovidio e dal modello di un sistema d’infinite relazioni di tutto con tutto […]” (I. Calvino, Lezioni Americane, 1988)<p> <p>Le riflessioni giuridiche, filosofiche e spirituali sull’etica ambientale convergono nel ritenere che la crisi ecologica del nostro tempo riflette la disfunzione del rapporto natura-società [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... -
A Conceptual Framework for Complex Systems at the Crossroads of Food, Environment, Health, and Innovation
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-20)Climate-smart solutions and practices have the potential to contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of achieving zero hunger; ensuring healthy lives and promoting the wellbeing of humans, animals, and plants; reducing ocean overharvesting and overfishing; tackling climate change; driving economic growth; and promoting innovation. Achieving these goals will require searching for, ... -
Dis-empowering Gender Stereotypes
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-04-12)This chapter explores how Western higher education (HE) can benefit from the adoption of illustrated storytelling as a methodology to simultaneously dis-empower gender stereotypes and empower persons in academia. Drawing from indigenous law and methodology and participatory approaches as an essential part of the legal methodology, we explore how critical role-playing developed through storytelling ... -
How to Achieve Food Security and Improved Nutrition by Protecting Environment and Human Health: Solutions from Administrative Environmental Law and A Case Study Addressing the Sustainability Challenges within the framework of the Agenda 2030/Raggiungere la sicurezza alimentare tutelando l’ambiente e la salute umana: risposte dal diritto amministrativo ambientale e soluzioni concrete alle sfide della sostenibilità nel quadro dell’Agenda 2030
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)The complex sustainability challenges need to be addressed through integrated interdisciplinary approaches, combining science, law and ethics with concrete, timely, and effective solutions. The study offers a legal framework and a case study to the needs posited by the Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development. Starting from the analysis of the first part of the Agenda, the article unfolds by exploring ... -
Is a decolonial law possible? Epistemologies of the south and constitutional law
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)Objective: The paper analyses the developments of legal-epistemic thinking with the understanding of decolonial thinking as an instrument to rethink the global South narrative. Moreover, the study aims to provide addresses the research gap between theories of knowledge.<p> <p>Methodology: Theoretical contributions and reflections are based on the sociohistorical field and aim to ascertain the ... -
Knowledge Integration and Good Marine Governance: A Multidisciplinary Analysis and Critical Synopsis
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-25)Our research addresses knowledge integration for the good governance of the environment and the oceans: (a) through a comprehensive legal, political science, and anthropological analysis; and (b) by providing an examination of crucial research foci and research gaps in the fields of environmental and marine governance, along the North–South divide. Our subsequent critical synopsis reveals how existing ... -
La tutela costituzionale dell'ambiente, della biodiversita' e degli ecosistemi, anche nell'interesse delle future generazioni
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)The contribution analyses the reform of Art. 9 of the Italian Constitution, whereas it establishes the duty of the State “to protect the environment, biodiversity and ecosystems, also for future generations, referring to the legislator the authority to enact animal protection legislation.” The comment touches upon a few key aspects of the reform: its framing within the critical systems thinking ... -
Legal pathways towards sustainable blue food systems in the aquaculture sector : Interdisciplinary workshop and roundtable discussion 10 January 2024
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2024-02-01)The workshop, organized by Mathilde Morel on January 10th 2024, as a part of her PhD project and preparatory work for her PhD midway presentation, aimed to convene experts within the realm of blue food systems with the overarching objective of exploring viable pathways toward sustainability transitions. The reason for this inquiry stems from the escalating recognition that contemporary food systems ... -
Nature Protection, Indigenous Rights, and Climate Action
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)Climate change is affecting indigenous peoples and their rights. However, indigenous peoples themselves are at the forefront of climate action, having protected nature for millennia, and now becoming increasingly aware of the active role they can play in the formulating and implementing processes of the international legal climate-change agenda.2 <p> <p>This chapter explores to what extent existing ... -
The New Horizons of Law and Science through the lens of the Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development. Some Emerging Issues
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-16)The complex sustainability challenges of the 21st century need to be addressed through integrated interdisciplinary approaches, combining science, law, and ethics with concrete, timely, and effective solutions. This study offers a legal framework and a case study to the needs posited by the Agenda 2030 on sustainable development. Starting from an analysis of the first part of the Agenda, the article ... -
Participation as the Essence of Good Governance: Some General Reflections and a Case Study on the Arctic Council
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-11-10)The present contribution explores aspects of good governance on the global dimension with participation as one of the key elements of a well-governed system, focusing on the Arctic Council’s (AC) commitment to enhance indigenous peoples’ participation in the environmental decision-making process. <br> The paper starts with a reflection on the revolutionary impact that new technologies have had ... -
Participatory engagement and the empowerment of the Arctic Indigenous Peoples
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-03-01)<p>This article aims to analyse the participatory mechanisms in environmental decision making with a focus on indigenous peoples (IP)’s engagement in the Arctic Council (AC)’s decisions.</p> <p>The first part offers a comprehensive perspective of the IP self-determination requirement as both the means and the end of their full participation to environmental decisions: self-determination is both ... -
Suggesting an Extensive Interpretation of the Concept of Novelty That Looks at the Bio-Cultural Dimension of Food
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-30)“Novel food” in the European Union’s (EU) legal terms refers to any food that was not used for human consumption to a significant degree within the EU before 15 May 1997 (Regulation 2015/2283/EU (2015)). Placing novel food on the market requires a safety assessment when such novelty is ascertained, with the consequent need of an authorization procedure that is not required for food traditionally ... -
Suggestions for a systematic regulatory approach to ocean plastics
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-16)The research investigates the problems and maps the solutions to the serious threat that plastics pose to the oceans, food safety, and human health, with more than eight million tons of plastic debris dumped in the sea every year. The aim of this study is to explore how to better improve the regulatory process of ocean plastics by integrating scientific results, regulatory strategies and action plans ... -
What can we learn from indigenous peoples law and methodology?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective: The paper analyses the deep contributions of Indigenous knowledge on enriching and encouraging change to laws and research and training the Western legal systems to listen to other voices that have been silenced for centuries.<p> <p>Methodology: The argumentation developed in the paper is based on interdisciplinary research (intertwining social and legal reflections on the ...
