Partecipazione e ambiente. uno sguardo critico

'Common goods' and 'participation' have become key expressions of our democracies, around which many expectations for change converged. The adjective used to indicate such goods does not pertain just to their ownership but also suggests that, in postulating community practices of utilization and shared forms of management, they are inevitably tied to the idea of participation. The participatory claims, which more and more often accompany the regulation thereof, are truly a consequence of their intrinsically relational nature, to the point that the way of life of the single communities and society at large is built around them. The work deals with these themes with reference to the environment since it offers a good subject for discussion, where the relational aspect emerges. The work in particular brings out how 'participation' has come to occupy a great space in environmental policies and in scholarly reflections, while at the same time not failing to emphasize that a certain caution

Il saggio esamina in chiave critica il rapporto tra democrazia e partecipazione nel campo del diritto dell'ambiente, muovendo dalle nozioni di democrazia partecipativa e di democrazia deliberativa