Book contents
- Representations and Rights of the Environment
- Series page
- Representations and Rights of the Environment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 An Introduction
- Part I Challenges
- Part II Recollection
- 6 Traditional Indigenous Knowledge and the Relationship to Mother Earth
- 7 The Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ of Pope Francis
- 8 Persons, Things and Nature in Roman Law
- 9 Environmental Law
- Part III Perspectives
- Index
- References
7 - The Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ of Pope Francis
Roots and Actuality
from Part II - Recollection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2023
Book contents
- Representations and Rights of the Environment
- Series page
- Representations and Rights of the Environment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 An Introduction
- Part I Challenges
- Part II Recollection
- 6 Traditional Indigenous Knowledge and the Relationship to Mother Earth
- 7 The Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ of Pope Francis
- 8 Persons, Things and Nature in Roman Law
- 9 Environmental Law
- Part III Perspectives
- Index
- References
Summary
Pope Francis raised the alarm about ecology in his encyclical letter Laudato si’. On care for our common home (24 May 2015). He gathers all the aspects of the ecological crisis, which leads to the concept of ‘integral ecology’, in which the different sides of ecology are bound with human life, and in particular with the plight of the poor. The chapter explores this document and discusses its implications for the rights of and representation of nature. After an analysis of the situation and an evaluation of the ecological needs, the Pope adds paths of action and ways of contemplation. He stresses the fact that everybody is able to do something and to discover the joy in a new relationship of contemplation with his brothers and sisters, with the cosmos and with God. The encyclical is completed by the analysis of the Final Document of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region, held in Rome in October 2019. The Document proposes a concrete application of the encyclical Laudato si’ in the world of today.
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- Representations and Rights of the Environment , pp. 160 - 183Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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