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A global Voice for Survival: a regenerative approach beyond doing no harm

Judging by the number of articles in my feed telling me that “it’s time to reflect!”, based on your efforts and the texts I have read, I thought you would be interested in my latest publications about the environment and the state of the world, which focus on capacity building and a regenerative approach beyond doing no harm. Please see them below:

André F. Pilon / Assoc. Prof. University of São Paulo
International Academy of Sciences, Health and Ecology
Public Profile and Selected Publications: https://www.unccd.int/science/former-spi-members/andre-francisco-pilon

Pilon, A. F. (2021) The Political, Economic, Cultural, Social and Moral Grounds of Governance. Researchgate, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21732.09606 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353830426_The_Political_Economic_Cultural_Social_and_Moral_Grounds_of_Governance

PILON, A. F. (2025). The Bubbles or the Boiling Water? Ways to regenerate the Earth and Humanity, Katoikos:
https://katoikos.world/analysis/the-bubbles-or-the-boiling-water-ways-to-regenerate-the-earth-and-humanity.html

PILON, A. F. (2024). "The Party of the Dead": a Tale that Repeats Itself, MPRA Munich Personal RePEc Archive:
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/121869/1/MPRA_paper_121869.pdf

PILON, A. F. (2021) Pandora's Box A Metaphor for today's World? Researchgate:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355684440_Pandora's_Box_A_Metaphor_for_today's_World

PILON, A. F. (2024). The Bubbles or the Boiling Water? A Course on Environmental Capacity Building [ppt presentation] Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381996602_The_Bubbles_or_the_Boiling_Water_A_Course_on_Environmental_Capacity_Building

PILON, A. F. (2025). The Bubbles or the Boiling Water? A Regenerative Approach beyond Doing no Harm, Researchgate:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397085750_The_Bubbles_or_the_Boiling_Water_A_Regenerative_Approach_beyond_Doing_no_Harm

Why is this important?

For a breakthrough in addressing the root causes of today’s challenges an ecosystem science-policy interface approach should:

1) define the problems in the core of the “boiling pot”, instead of reducing them to the bubbles on the surface (fragmented issues, reduced academic formats, segmented policies, effects);

2) consider all dimensions of being in the world (intimate, interactive, social and biophysical), assessing their deficits and assets, as they combine to elicit, maintain or transform the events;

3) promote the singularity of (identity, proper characteristics) and the reciprocity (mutual support) of all dimensions, in view of their complementarity and dynamic equilibrium;

4) be committed to a critical analysis of present paradigms of growth, power, wealth, work and freedom embedded into the political, technological, economic, educational and cultural institutions;

5) in the socio-cultural learning niches, heuristic-hermeneutic processes should generate awareness, interpretation and understanding beyond established stereotypes, from a thematic (“what” is at stake), an epistemic (“how” to understand and define the events) and a strategic (who, when, where) viewpoint. Earth’s and humanity's regeneration, as faces of the same coin, should be addressed simultaneously, for their mutual support.

Ref.: PILON, A. F. (2024). The Bubbles or the Boiling Water? A Course on Environmental Capacity Building [ppt presentation] Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381996602_The_Bubbles_or_the_Boiling_Water_A_Course_on_Environmental_Capacity_Building