Suchergebnisse

La sostenibilitŕ di qualsiasi sistema č tale se si assume una prospettiva orientata al futuro: in particolare, se il sistema in questione č quello sociale, ne deriva che parlare di sostenibilitŕ non puň prescindere dal considerare la dimensione generazionale. Considerato che oggi la definizione della generazione giovanile non puň piů poggiare sulle tradizionali categorie cognitive, l'obiettivo di questo lavoro č quello di proporre delle riflessioni in merito al ruolo che č possibile attribuire ai giovani rispetto all'obiettivo della sostenibilitŕ sociale. Pertanto, le considerazioni proposte focalizzano l'attenzione su alcuni percorsi dell'analisi sociologica sulle nuove generazioni, soprattutto su quelli che maggiormente hanno posto l'accento sulla sostenibilitŕ del sistema sociale ed hanno studiato l'azione sociale in un'ottica non eminentemente ancorata al presente. Tale rassegna teorica consente di soffermarsi sui contenuti sociologici dedicati al tema della sostenibilitŕ sociale e di registrare l'acquisizione di strumenti di analisi sempre piů "sostenibili" nell'interpretazione della realtŕ in evoluzione, quali si possono riconoscere nei modelli e nelle sperimentazioni di tipo interdisciplinare prescelti.

Chapter 1: Some Remarks for a New Sociological Theory of Sustainability -- Chapter 2: Sustainability and the Crisis of the Theoretical Functional Model -- Chapter 3: Environmental Sustainability and the Evolution of Capitalism -- Chapter 4: The Thought of Zygmunt Bauman as a Key for Entering into a New Social Theory -- Chapter 5: Sustainability and SDGs: From Moral Imperatives to Indicators and Indexes - A Methodology for Validating and Assessing SDGs -- Chapter 6: Sustainability as a Key Imperative in Project Cycle Management: Sociological Considerations -- Chapter 7: Toward an Understanding of Psychopathological Syndromes related to Social Environments -- Chapter 8: Social Research between Participation and Critical Detachment -- Chapter 9: Sustainability Through Unsustainability? Unintended Consequences and Emancipatory Catastrophism -- Chapter 10: The Sociology and the Sustainable Development: The Paradigm is Going to Change.

Global Society, Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights is the outcome of a decade-long scholarly project. The point of convergence emerging from the analyses contained in this volume is that ""global society"", ""cosmopolitanism"" and ""human rights"" are likely to constitute the basis of present and future ways of life. The ""project for humanity"" of the future, while resting on local social associations, will have ""globality"" as its reference. A world dominated by globalisation processes obliges the so

The radical changes that have been affecting society in recent decades impose on the science in general, and the social sciences in particular, a serious rethinking of concepts and research methods in order to be able to adequately interpret the transition underway. These are, in fact, transformations that do not only concern interpersonal relations and the objectives of social life but start from and are reflected in the crisis of the environmental ecosystem and in the inability of the present generations, and even more so of future generations, to be able to satisfy their needs with the development model followed until now. In the search for a different development paradigm to apply, global adherence to the sustainable paradigm cannot but urge all sciences to rethink their own theoretical and methodological paths, making the sustainable paradigm also their own. This entails a real scientific revolution that certain phenomena, such as the pandemic crisis, have also imprinted, revealing the irreversibility of this ongoing process. The need for an integration of the sciences leads to a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the object of research, which is becoming increasingly complex, to the extent that it is necessary to 1) assume future time perspectives and 2) integrate even non-expert knowledge into increasingly proven models such as that of citizen science. The case study offered by the Pan-European Research Infrastructure for the Promotion of Metrology in Food and Nutrition (METROFOOD-RI) will be a good practice of how sustainability is now a paradigm for integrated sciences and citizen science.

Water is a vital asset used in public and private activities, both with domestic and productive targets. As freshwater is unevenly and irregularly scattered, some regions of the world acutely suffer from water scarcity. Limited access to safe drinking water and lack of adequate sanitation facilities in most devel- oping countries, as the rapid urbanization, have caused serious water scarcity and water pollution problems. Then, the global warming caused by burning of fossil fuels has negative impacts on the hydrological cycle and consequently unfavorable changes in water quality. In the Mediterranean basin, some regions, as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), are encountering sever social, economic and environmental issues related to water management. As the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 6 points out it's irreversible to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Finally, it is possible to make the growing urban areas more sustainable (Goal 11), assuming water not more as a losing item for the MENA Region development, but as a strategic tool for facing persistent imbalances and for riding the overwhelming changes.