L’ambiente tra diritti ed altre scienze. Relazione riassuntiva

Environment between rights and other sciences. Summary report

Abstract

Comparative law the legal discipline most characterised by the contamination of the hard sciences and the social sciences and Environmental law – discipline-symbol of post-modern law – fits right into this stereotype.Global Environmental Constitutionalism raises important questions about the conflict of punitive and compensatory profiles and the separation of powers. The topic of sustainable development and intergenerational rights highlights the need for a renewal of the categories of fundamental rights. The concept of the Anthropocene highlights how human activities cause alterations in the balance between ecosystems and raises the fundamental debate on the constitutionalisation of climate.
The relationship between economy and environment in European Environmental Constitutionalism must guide a necessary ecologically oriented interpretation of the new Article 41 of the Italian Constitution.