Description

A clean and healthy environment is vital for everyone's quality of life, but the quality of the environment can vary between different areas and communities.  People who are socially and economically disadvantaged often live in the worst environments.  Environmental inequality refers to the unequal social distribution of environmental risks and hazards and access to environmental goods and services. As such the term links environmental and social justice concerns and is closely related to the broader normative and campaigning framework of environmental justice. Tackling environmental inequalities and ensuring that all people have access to a good quality environment in the future is critical to a socially equitable transition to ecological sustainability.

The course aims at promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and capacity building so that researchers, policymakers and practitioners are better able to understand and address environmental inequalities in the Portuguese context. Focusing on a wide range of environment and social justice issues, the course will seek to review and consolidate progress on environmental inequalities research in the international context and in Portugal, and to build capacity and help shape the future direction of interdisciplinary research and policy action in this important area.

Programme

Manhã: Teorias e quadros (inter)nacionais
9h30 Abertura, apresentação do curso e dos/as formadores/as
10:00- 10h30 S. Barca (CES), As desigualdades ambientais: definição e debates atuais
10h30-11h00 B. Allen (Univ. of Virginia Tech, USA), Politics, social justice and the environment: a US perspective
11h00-11h15 Pausa para café
11h15-11h45 J.M. Mendes (CES), Risco ambiental e vulnerabilidade social em Portugal
11h45-12h15 H. Jerónimo (SOCIUS), Pluralidade científica e participação democrática na gestão do risco ambiental
12h15-13h00 Debate

13h00 Almoço

Tarde: Metodologias de investigação e ação social
14h30-15h00 M. Armiero (ICTA, Universidade Autónoma Barcelona), Garbage struggles in Campania: an action/research methodology
15h00-15h30 S. Bento (SOCIUS) e M.Varanda (ICS), Metodologias de investigação na governação da água
15h30-16h00 L. Fernandes (SOCIUS/CES), Experiências de mapeamento das desigualdades ambientais no Brasil
16h00-16h15 Pausa para café
16h15-17h00 Projeção de videos/documentários
17h00-18h30 Forum de discussão

REGISTRATION:
- Until Nov. 25th: € 30.00_regular; € 20.00_students and unemployed;
- Until December 11th (deadline for registration): €40,00 _regular; € 30.00 _students and unemployed.

Coordenators: Stefania Barca (CES) e Sofia Bento (SOCIUS)