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The intensification of climate change and the persistence of environmental crimes constitute some of the greatest contemporary challenges for States and societies on a global scale. Extreme events, such as prolonged droughts, floods, forest fires, and landslides, combine with environmental degradation processes resulting from deforestation, predatory mining, contamination of natural resources, and other forms of unsustainable exploitation of territories. The impacts of these dynamics fall particularly severely on rural areas, affecting ecosystems, production systems, infrastructure, food security, livelihoods, and the social reproduction of local communities.

Although debates on climate adaptation and sustainability have advanced significantly in recent decades, important challenges remain related to the capacity of States to prevent damage, respond to emergencies, and promote effective socio-environmental repair processes. In many contexts, public actions remain fragmented, sectoral, and limited by institutional, financial, and political constraints, hindering the construction of integrated responses capable of articulating environmental recovery, social justice, and sustainable territorial development.

This workshop starts from the understanding that repairing the damage resulting from catastrophes, environmental crimes, and climate emergencies in general is much more costly than anticipating these events and should not be understood merely as a technical process of infrastructure reconstruction or ecosystem recovery. It is a complex agenda of territorial transformation that involves multi-level governance, social participation, institutional strengthening, guaranteeing rights, and building more resilient and sustainable development pathways. From this perspective, the creation and strengthening of state capacities become central elements for promoting reparation processes capable of addressing historical inequalities and expanding development opportunities in the affected territories.

The proposal is based on an interdisciplinary approach that articulates the fields of public policies, environmental governance, rural territorial development, socio-environmental justice, climate adaptation, and food and nutritional sovereignty and security. In addition, it is inspired by principles of critical pedagogy, understanding participants not only as recipients of knowledge but as subjects who produce knowledge and experiences. In this sense, the workshop aims to foster dialogic learning processes and collective reflection on the challenges faced by different territories, valuing both academic knowledge and knowledge produced by communities, social movements, and public managers involved in reparation and reconstruction processes.

Recognizing that the impacts of environmental crimes and climate emergencies are socially differentiated and territorially distributed unevenly, the activity will seek to promote a critical analysis of the relationships between vulnerability, power, institutional capacity, and development. We will discuss how different institutional arrangements can strengthen States' capacity to coordinate anticipatory and reparative intersectoral actions, mobilize resources, promote social participation, and implement policies oriented toward sustainability and territorial justice.

Methodology

The workshop proposes an international space for dialogue between researchers, public managers, representatives of civil society, multilateral organizations, and territorial leaders, with the objective of analyzing experiences, sharing lessons learned, and building proposals aimed at strengthening state capacities for environmental remediation and for anticipatory action for social protection and guaranteeing Food and Nutritional Security. The discussion will seek to integrate different scales of analysis, from institutional and normative frameworks to concrete experiences of reparation for the affected population, reconstruction, and territorial development in contexts of environmental and climate crisis.

The workshop will be guided by three central questions:

1. What state capacities are needed to prevent, respond to, and repair the impacts resulting from environmental crimes and climate emergencies in rural territories?

2. How can socio-environmental reparation processes contribute to the promotion of integrated, sustainable, and socially inclusive rural territorial development?

3. Which governance and social participation models favor more effective, democratic, and resilient public responses to environmental crises?

This workshop aims to contribute to the international debate on environmental governance and territorial development, offering a space for critical reflection and collective knowledge building capable of strengthening more integrated, democratic, and sustainable public responses to the growing challenges posed by the environmental and climate crises of the 21st century.

Requirements for Applicants

The workshop welcomes researchers, graduate students, public managers, practitioners, and activists interested in interpretive policy analysis, public service interactions, emotions in policy processes, social inequalities, inclusive institutions, and critical approaches to public administration.

Following the selection process, participants will be expected to submit a more developed paper (1.500-2.000 words) that engages more deeply with one of the issues or themes introduced in the abstract proposal.

Language

The workshop will be conducted in English and Portuguese

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