Epistemologie della sostenibilità: ragionamenti e politiche non standard

Abstract

Sustainability perspectives require non-standard scientific and political reasoning, now more than ever. The lexicons of ecology and political economy articulate epistemic categories and imaginaries in which humans and environments are in mutual relationship avoiding an exploitation logic of the former. We support these scenarios allow to grasp the discontinuities between the past and the present of the environmental movements, between the scientific ideals of modernity and the contemporary ones. The need to connect two opposing styles of reasoning is progressing: the theme of the non-neutrality of science and the need for science based political judgments. In this previously unknown combination of science and society, the current democratic practices of "multilevel co-production" between researchers and active citizenship (citizen-science) mark realistic governance pathways of the planetary ecological crisis to which governments seem to have to face, sooner as possible.

Keywords

• climate change
• citizen science
• environmental movements
• co-production