Driving Transformative Environmental Governance

Driving Transformative Environmental Governance (TRANSFORM) examines how civil society actors reshape environmental governance amid accelerating ecological and social crises. Through eight comparative cases across local, national, and international contexts, the project develops a framework based on two pathways: transformation by doing and transformation by demanding. Transformation by doing refers to bottom-up initiatives that prefigure and implement alternative models of resource management, socio-ecological relations, and decision-making. Transformation by demanding captures mobilisation, advocacy, protest, and political contestation aimed at reshaping normative and institutional foundations. By integrating these dynamics, the project clarifies how collective action drives institutional change and how civil society actively seeks to reconfigure governance systems.

Program

14:00 
Presentation of the project and case studies
Louisa Parks | Università di Trento
Lorenzo Zamponi | Scuola Normale Superiore
Bartek Goldmann | Università di Trento
Maria Chiara Franceschelli | Scuola Normale Superiore
Giuseppe Cugnata | Scuola Normale Superiore

15:30
Break

16:00 
Roundtable and discussion
Luigi Pellizzoni | Scuola Normale Superiore
Eugene Nulman | Università degli Studi di Firenze
Irina Aguiari | Scuola Normale Superiore
Federica Frazzetta | Scuola Normale Superiore

PRIN22PNRR "Driving Transformative Environmental Governance (TRANSFORM)", codice P2022R3NKJ, CUP E53D23019400001, dicitura: "Finanziamento dell’Unione Europea – NextGenerationEU, M4c2" 

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