Identifier: TDX:2763
Authors: Ricarte Lopes, Thays
Abstract:
This doctoral thesis stems from a concern within the governance failures from the capitalist world system, this is, from the institutional structure of the global social metabolism in the context of a planetary environmental crisis. In particular, this analysis arises as a consequence of the confirmation of the externalities associated to the energy model, within the international regulatory framework, which seeks to respond to the environmental crisis effectively. In order to understand this paradox, this work is aimed to provide a critical discourse of the previously mentioned structure taking energy justice as a reference point.
To that end, I considered it important to diagnose the roots of the system failure in order to devise alternatives to the hegemonic rhetoric that has led to the current scenario of environmental degradation. For this, based on energy transition, I explore some of the basic factors for global governance fracture in the context of the environmental crisis. Specifically, the restrictiveness of the language of rights and the need to introduce a narrative of profound change based on environmental justice, which I present as an alternative regulatory framework. Therefore, I assume that the environmental crisis can be interpreted from the Anthropocene perspective, calling into question the utopian presuppositions of the hegemonic vision of Public Law, and also inviting us to question the patriarchal and colonial model of the capitalist world-economy, which is currently legitimized by the fundamental concept of sustainable development. Consequently, I intend to move forward in the construction of a new, responsible, precautious, supportive, cooperative and sustainable global governance.