Sessions
The meeting will include invited talks, presentations sent by the participants

(either oral or poster), round tables, thematic workshops and dialogues with the speakers
Invited talks will last from 30 to 45 minutes.
Oral presentations will last 15 minutes.
Poster size cannot exceed 1200 mm (height) and 900 mm (width).

Conference schedule
Program

International meeting

“Natural relationality and environmental awareness”

Castel Gandolfo (Rome) Italy, April 4-6, 2014

Friday – Session “Person-nature relation”

15.00 Opening remarks (Luca Fiorani, EcoOne, and Franco Pizzorno, New Humanity)
15:15 Round table: “What is the relation? Who is the person?”
Anthropological perspective – Tiziana Longhitano (Urbaniana University, Italy)
Sociological perspective – Silvia Cataldi (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Natural sciences perspective – Andrea Ponta (Iren Energia, Italy)
Dialogue
16:15 Coffee-break
16:45 Sergio Rondinara (Sophia University Institute, Italy): “Person-nature relation”
17:30 Dialogue
18:00 Coffee-break
18:30 Oral presentations 1 - 4
19:30 Dinner
20:30 – 21:30 Poster session and interactive space on nuclear fission managed by Giulio Valli

Saturday morning – Session “Natural relationality”

09:00 Klaus Colanero (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR): “The nature of scientific
knowledge and its relevance in choices about nature”
09:30 Lamberto Rondoni (Polytechnic University of Turin and INFN, Italy): “Relation and the complexity in
nature”
10:00 Daniele Spadaro (INAF, Italy): “Relations and evolution in the Universe”
10:30 Coffee-break
11:00 Nino Puglisi (Oxford Nanopore Technologies, UK): “Emergent properties”
11:30 Stefania Papa (Second University of Naples, Italy): “Relations in ecosystems”
12:00 Dialogue
13:00 Lunch

Saturday afternoon – Session “Environmental awareness”

15:00 Miguel Panão (University of Coimbra, Portugal): “Environmental ethics, environmental awareness
and sustainability”
15:30 Angela Silva (AMU, Italy): “The centrality of common goods in a globalized society”
16:00 Coffee-break
16.30 Workgroups: Towards an ethics that allows respecting nature and valuing human creativity
17:00 Plenary session: presentation of workgroups results, synthesis and conclusions
17:30 Coffee-break
18:00 Oral communications 5 - 8
19:00 Dinner
20:00 – 21:30 Theatrical performance on climate change “Il Kyoto fisso”

Sunday – Session “The future we want”

09:00 Luigi De Dominicis (ENEA and “Lumsa” University): “Europe 2020: A strategy for an intelligent,
sustainable and inclusive growth”
09:45 Fernando Testa (Italian-Brazilian University Center, Brazil): “Rio+20: The future we want”
10:30 Coffee-break
11:00 Dialogue
12:00 Synthesis and conclusions – “Piero Pasolini” award ceremony
13:00 Lunch

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

1. Leonardo CAFFO – Quale ontologia per l’ecologia?
2. Maria Elena PACINELLI – Oltre il punto
3. Carlos Aurélio MOTA DE SOUZA – L’uomo, la natura ed il principio di equità intergenerazionale
4. Alessio VALENTE – Effetti nell’ambiente di un pozzo di estrazione petrolifera: il caso dell’Irpinia (Italia
   meridionale)
5. John A. MUNDELL – Ongoing conflict resolution between business and mother earth: four decades of
   progress in the development of a new world environmental awareness and a cleaner planet
6. Pascal GOURBEYRE – The human body: a misunderstood ecosystem to preserve
7. Susan KOPP – Interrelatedness and the emerging ‘One Health’ paradigm: humans, animals and
   ecosystems
8. Sabuj BARUA – A case study: buddhism and nature
   
   POSTER PRESENTATIONS
   
   
9. John A. MUNDELL – Working with nature to remediate contaminated land and water: the role of
   bioremediation in ecological restoration
10. Jorg OSTROWSKI – Silk Road recofit
11. Raffaele PERSICO – GPR technology for environmental problems
12. Daniele RENZI – Il network europeo Water 2020: uno nuovo approccio multi-stakeholder per lo
    sviluppo tecnologico sostenibile negli impianti di depurazione delle acque reflue
    

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