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Governance for sustainability: applying Klaus Bosselmann’s legal concepts in ensuring urban environmental protection through local capacity building
| Resumo: | Governance for sustainability reaches the community of life, beyond humans. Based on legal concepts reinterpreted by Klauss Bosselmann, the goal is to disseminate knowledge and raise awareness of public’s shared and intergenerational responsibility, providing them opportunities to act in society as agents of transformation. The social action consists in (re)educating 87 building’s residents in an urban area, who didn’t have selective waste collection. Despite initial resistance, the procedure was simplified to operate from two trash cans with different colored bags on each condominium’s floor. The blue one collects recyclable waste; the black one, organic. The condominium employees are also instructed not to mix the contents and to deliver only the blue bags to the collectors who have a specific day, time and registration. Afterwards, they transport it into recycling centers, generating sustenance and dignifying their work. This action, led by a lawyer, implements legal principles and standards in society applying, through a systemic and simplified vision, the National Solid Waste Policy (12.305/2010) and a non-formal education (L. 9.795/1999). As well as ensuring a high level of environmental protection (article 37, EUCR) and an ecologically balanced environment (article 225, BFC/88). The methodology is interdisciplinary between theory and practice of Human, Environmental and Urban Rights. As a result, by recognizing intergenerational equity and ecological solidarity, human societies understand that they are not only part of natural systems, but they may also assess the impact of their activities and examine their contribution to ecosystem integrity through responsible ways of managing uses and resources. |
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| Autores principais: | Valente Lopes, Érica |
| Assunto: | ecological solidarity governance for sustainability high level of environmental protection intergenerational equity local practices recyclable waste |
| Ano: | 2025 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Coimbra |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra |
| Resumo: | Governance for sustainability reaches the community of life, beyond humans. Based on legal concepts reinterpreted by Klauss Bosselmann, the goal is to disseminate knowledge and raise awareness of public’s shared and intergenerational responsibility, providing them opportunities to act in society as agents of transformation. The social action consists in (re)educating 87 building’s residents in an urban area, who didn’t have selective waste collection. Despite initial resistance, the procedure was simplified to operate from two trash cans with different colored bags on each condominium’s floor. The blue one collects recyclable waste; the black one, organic. The condominium employees are also instructed not to mix the contents and to deliver only the blue bags to the collectors who have a specific day, time and registration. Afterwards, they transport it into recycling centers, generating sustenance and dignifying their work. This action, led by a lawyer, implements legal principles and standards in society applying, through a systemic and simplified vision, the National Solid Waste Policy (12.305/2010) and a non-formal education (L. 9.795/1999). As well as ensuring a high level of environmental protection (article 37, EUCR) and an ecologically balanced environment (article 225, BFC/88). The methodology is interdisciplinary between theory and practice of Human, Environmental and Urban Rights. As a result, by recognizing intergenerational equity and ecological solidarity, human societies understand that they are not only part of natural systems, but they may also assess the impact of their activities and examine their contribution to ecosystem integrity through responsible ways of managing uses and resources. |
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