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    Environmental Politics and Place Authenticity Protection
    Environmental Values 18 (3): 313-341. 2009.
    A large part of environmental politics is interested in protecting place authenticity against the 'disenchanting' effect produced by the advent of modernity. It adopts a rhetoric of nostalgia by regretting the loss of primeval relations between humans and nature, and endorses an essentialist, foundationalist and exclusivist definition of locality and the locals. In order to overcome the problematic political consequences of this (widely accepted) classic approach, the paper proposes to different…Read more
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    This paper is intended to provide a critic perspective on the definition of places authenticity as proposed in the conventional environmental discourses. It suggests that, by following a very widespread view, modernity is con- sidered responsible for the loss of authenticity and the consequent disen- chantment of the world. However, environmental discourses claiming for the defence of places authenticity and adopting a rhetoric of nostalgia for a loss primeval relation between humans and na…Read more
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    The evaluation of sustainability of organic farms in Tuscany
    In H. Gökcekus, T. Türker Umut & J. W. LaMoreaux (eds.), Environment: Survival and Sustainibility, Springer. forthcoming.
    Sustainability evaluation with MESMIS Framework has been conducted in 5 organic farms in Tuscany with different management approach. The real differences is, indeed, determined by motivations that explain how the landscape, the work structure and the cultural heritage organize themselves giving the present assessment of the Tuscan rural work.
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    Ecology, Environmentalism and System Theory
    Kybernetes. The International Journal of Systems and Cybernetics 35 (6). 2006.
    The paper identifies the relation between ecology and environmentalism through the emergence of system theory.
  • Human Rights
    In G. H. Fagan & R. Munck (eds.), Globalisation and Security - An Encyclopaedi, Greenwood Publishing Group, Praeger Press. 2009.