DOI: 10.5176/2251-2403_PSSIR17.52
Authors: Giuseppe Laneve, Gabriella Aleandri
Abstract:
Environmental education is sustainable and effective guarantee of the rights to health, to work, to coexistence and active participation of citizens. Ever since man has started to operate in a significant way on earth, environment and climate, especially since industrialization, so that has been coined the definition “Anthropocene era”, there are many problems arising from. So, we have to face them if we want to think and preserve a future to humanity in a sustainable environment. We must find a balance between anthropization and respect for earth, in the relationship, that has always involved and fascinated scholars throughout human history, between man and nature. Today such relationship has become crucial, as well as that one between environmental education and socio-political and economic engagement. The lack of environmental education, in addition to the aspect concerning the lack of health protection, determines repercussions on inability of citizens to protect essential ecological aspects destroyed, often, by unscrupulous industrial policies: see, for example, in Italy, the case Ilva in Taranto, who was admitted to the judgment of the European Court of Human rights in Strasbourg. The appeal was admitted not on the contrast between work and health rights but on the failure by the state of a proper (actually nothing) information for citizens about environmental risks, which resulted in not only the inability to defend their own health, but also in the separation and disinterest by citizens themselves involved. The specific referendum, moreover, did not meet quorum. The interdisciplinary dialogue, then, between pedagogy and law, in an indissoluble link between education, active participation and protection, it is most appropriate
Keywords: Environmental education, constitutional law, active citizenship.
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