The book provides a comprehensive overview of the European Sustainability Model which cannot be properly understood without taking into account the global governance trends surrounding the topic. The author offers a fresh analysis of both theory and praxis of sustainable development in the open-ended process of EU integration by shedding new light on the often-overlooked role that law and legal science should have within the educational and cultural domains. The monograph explores the necessity of new conceptual and methodological approaches in order to understand the emerging educational and cultural challenges when it comes to their integration and intersection with sustainability in today's society, which desperately claims systemic transformations. .
Introduction -- Conceptual and Methodological Premise: Breaking Silos Into the Legal Domain -- The European Sustainability Model: From the Global Governance Scenario to the European Picture 'Integrating' Intergenerational Justice and Accessible Governance Mechanisms -- Conceptualising and Understanding Education and Cultural Challenges for Sustainability Transformation. Raising Awareness on the Big Picture -- Facing Cultural and Education Challenges at the EU Level: Fragmentation and Multiple Solutions.
La Agenda 2030 supone una relativa novedad en una época de retos globales porque introduce metas concretas que permiten una evaluación política global y constante hacía la consecución de un desarrollo sostenible. Persigue una ambiciosa transformación social con un enfoque bastante exhaustivo de sus objetivos pero es criticable su exigua referencia a la cultura. No obstante la carencia específica de una mención al universo cultural, no ha sido óbice para el reconocimiento del papel que la cultura tiene como eje transversal de innovación y cambio para la consecución de la agenda global a nivel institucional implicando en primer lugar a la ciudadanía y su sociedad civil, las empresas, las universidades, los gobiernos locales, etc. Así pues, a la cultura en todas sus declinaciones se le ha concediendo un papel crucial en el desarrollo integral de nuestras sociedades pero todavía necesita una mayor legitimidad social que ha de venir en primer lugar de la administración pública y las instituciones para poder definir e incrementar el papel de las políticas públicas desplegando todo su potencial al servicio de la ciudadanía y de una agenda de desarrollo ambiciosa. ; The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda is a relatively new plan of action for people, the planet and prosperity in a period of complex global challenges. This universal agenda introduces specific goals and targets allowing for the first place an effective follow-up and permanent and constant political assessment of global scope in order to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient place. It aims at transforming our world with an exhaustive approach but still it suffices a scarce reference to cultural issues. Despite of this scant reference to culture there exists a wide-ranging recognition of culture as a transversal means for innovation and change at the service of the global agenda and at institutional level engaging citizens and the whole civil society, industry, higher education institutions, local governments and all sort of stakeholders. Culture in all its dimension has theoretically reached recognition of its crucial role for an integral ecological transformation of our societies despite of an urgent need for social legitimacy. Such social legitimacy should come in the first place from institutional bodies and public administration in order to define and support public policies to boost the growing potential of culture at the service of citizens and the UN ambitious Agenda 2030.
The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda is a relatively new plan of action for people, the planet and prosperity in a period of complex global challenges. This universal agenda introduces specific goals and targets allowing for the first place an eff ective follow-up and permanent and constant political assessment of global scope in order to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient place. It aims at transforming our world with an exhaustive approach but still it suffi ces a scarce reference to cultural issues. Despite of this scant reference to culture there exists a wide-ranging recognition of culture as a transversal means for innovation and change at the service of the global agenda and at institutional level engaging citizens and the whole civil society, industry, higher education institutions, local governments and all sort of stakeholders. Culture in all its dimension has theoretically reached recognition of its crucial role for an integral ecological transformation of our societies despite of an urgent need for social legitimacy. Such social legitimacy should come in the first place from institutional bodies and public administration in order to defi ne and support public policies to boost the growing potential of culture at the service of citizens and the an ambitious Agenda 2030. ; La Agenda 2030 supone una relativa novedad en una época de retos globales porque introduce metas concretas que permiten una evaluación política global y constante hacía la consecución de un desarrollo sostenible. Persigue una ambiciosa transformación social con un enfoque bastante exhaustivo de sus objetivos pero es criticable su exigua referencia a la cultura. No obstante la carencia específica de una mención al universo cultural, no ha sido óbice para el reconocimiento del papel que la cultura tiene como eje transversal de innovación y cambio para la consecución de la agenda global a nivel institucional implicando en primer lugar a la ciudadanía y su sociedad civil, las empresas, las universidades, los gobiernos locales, etc. Así pues, a la cultura en todas sus declinaciones se le ha concedido un papel crucial en el desarrollo integral de nuestras sociedades pero todavía necesita una mayor legitimidad social que ha de venir en primer lugar de la administración pública y las instituciones para poder definir e incrementar el papel de las políticas públicas desplegando todo su potencial al servicio de la ciudadanía y de una agenda de desarrollo ambiciosa. Palabras clave: agenda 2030, cultura, transformación, sostenibilidad, instituciones, legitimidad social, gestión participativa. Culture and Public Administration in times of global challenges: An agenda for transformation and the achievement of ambitious goals? Abstract: The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda is a relatively new plan of action for people, the planet and prosperity in a period of complex global challenges. This universal agenda introduces specifi c goals and targets allowing for the first place an eff ective follow up and permanent and constant political assessment of global scope in order to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient place. It aims at transforming our world with an exhaustive approach but still it suffi ces a scarce reference to cultural issues. Despite of this scant reference to culture there exists a wide-ranging recognition of culture as a transversal means for innovation and change at the service of the global agenda and at institutional level engaging citizens and the whole civil society, industry, higher education institutions, local governments and all sort of stakeholders. Culture in all its dimension has theoretically reached recognition of its crucial role for an integral ecological transformation of our societies despite of an urgent need for social legitimacy. Such social legitimacy should come in the first place from institutional bodies and public administration in order to defi ne and support public policies to boost the growing potential of culture at the service of citizens and the UN ambitious Agenda 2030. Keywords: agenda 2030, culture, transformation, sustainability, institutions, social legitimacy, civil society. Artículo recibido:15/10/2020 Artículo aceptado:30/10/2020
Nuestra discusión pretende analizar los retos conceptuales que se esconden detrás del paradigma de la sostenibilidad, para entender más adelante en nuestro análisis el compromiso jurídico efectivo de la UE a la hora de implementar las políticas de desarrollo sostenible y las medidas legales que le siguen, que serían difíciles de entender sino se acude a las pautas de desarrollo sostenible que ha lanzado la gobernanza global. Para ello, nuestro prisma analítico tocará los límites del tan mencionado ―en los últimos años―derecho global. Las medidas legislativas de la UE en el campo de la "sostenibilidad" sólo pueden entenderse a la luz del paralelo esfuerzo de determinación de conceptos, categorías y principios básicos que los acuerdos internacionales, en aras del desarrollo de un principio de justicia intergeneracional y desde la óptica del cambio climático, han impulsado. Con independencia de la dificultad que comporta la inexistencia de consenso sobre el significado de la expresión "desarrollo sostenible", partimos de la base que el TFUE y el TUE nos dan las pautas para una interpretación de un modelo conceptual de desarrollo sostenible, como nos lo dio en su día el Informe Brundtland. Podemos afirmar que Europa cuenta hoy con un acquis communautaire de sostenibilidad que ya es innegable. ; This article seeks to analyze the conceptual challenges embedded in the global legal system's sustainability paradigm. Our discussion focuses on the European Union's legal commitment for the implementation of sustainable development policies. It would be difficult to understand it without paying attention to the global context and the sustainable development guidelines under the so called "global governance". To do this, we have set up an analytical framework that assesses the parameters of global law —a pivotal reference in legal discourse in recent years. EU legislation within the field of "sustainability" can only be understood in light of the parallel effort, via international agreements, for the definition of concepts, categories and basic principles upon which we can ultimately formulate an intergenerational justice principle. Furthermore, as proposed by the Brundtland Report, despite the difficulties arising from the lack of consensus on the meaning of "sustainable development", the TFEU and the TEU provide guidelines for a stronger interpretation of a conceptual model of sustainable development. In this way, it is possible to argue that Europe has now an undeniable sustainability acquis communautaire.
Nuestra discusión pretende analizar los retos conceptuales que se esconden detrás del paradigma de la sostenibilidad, para entender más adelante en nuestro análisis el compromiso jurídico efectivo de la UE a la hora de implementar las políticas de desarrollo sostenible y las medidas legales que le siguen, que serían difíciles de entender sino se acude a las pautas de desarrollo sostenible que ha lanzado la gobernanza global. Para ello, nuestro prisma analítico tocará los límites del tan mencionado ―en los últimos años― derecho global. Las medidas legislativas de la UE en el campo de la "sostenibilidad" sólo pueden entenderse a la luz del paralelo esfuerzo de determinación de conceptos, categorías y principios básicos que los acuerdos internacionales, en aras del desarrollo de un principio de justicia intergeneracional y desde la óptica del cambio climático, han impulsado. Con independencia de la dificultad que comporta la inexistencia de consenso sobre el significado de la expresión "desarrollo sostenible", partimos de la base que el TFUE y el TUE nos dan las pautas para una interpretación de un modelo conceptual de desarrollo sostenible, como nos lo dio en su día el Informe Brundtland. Podemos afirmar que Europa cuenta hoy con un acquis communautaire de sostenibilidad que ya es innegable ; This article seeks to analyze the conceptual challenges embedded in the global legal system's sustainability paradigm. Our discussion focuses on the European Union's legal commitment for the implementation of sustainable development policies. It would be difficult to understand it without paying attention to the global context and the sustainable development guidelines under the so called "global governance". To do this, we have set up an analytical framework that assesses the parameters of global law —a pivotal reference in legal discourse in recent years. EU legislation within the field of "sustainability" can only be understood in light of the parallel effort, via international agreements, for the definition of concepts, categories and basic principles upon which we can ultimately formulate an intergenerational justice principle. Furthermore, as proposed by the Brundtland Report, despite the difficulties arising from the lack of consensus on the meaning of "sustainable development", the TFEU and the TEU provide guidelines for a stronger interpretation of a conceptual model of sustainable development. In this way, it is possible to argue that Europe has now an undeniable sustainability acquis communautaire
