How can we give voice to Nature and Future Generations in climate decision-making?
How can we give voice to Nature and Future Generations in climate decision-making?
This is the question that guided our most recent chapter published by Springer: “Future and Nature Stakeholder Integration in Climate Deliberation” by Fátima Alves* and Diogo Guedes Vidal*
We believe that facing the climate crisis requires moving beyond traditional models of participation. That is why we argue that Nature and Future Generations must be recognised as genuine stakeholders in socioenvironmental deliberations.
How can this be done in practice?
- By creating new legal frameworks that acknowledge the Rights of Nature.
- By giving space to young and intergenerational voices.
- By using innovative participatory methods – from art to science – to imagine regenerative futures.
This work also draws on our experience in the European project PHOENIX H2020, which seeks to broaden and reinvent climate democracy.
The chapter is available in Open Access at Spinger Nature
Because to talk about the future is also to talk about the present – and about those who (still) have no voice!
* Societies and Environmental Sustainability Research Group at the Centre for Functional Ecology – Science for People & the Planet, TERRA Associated Laboratory at the University of Coimbra and its Extension at Universidade Aberta of Portugal.
Alves, F., & Vidal, D. G. (2025). Future and Nature Stakeholder Integration in Climate Deliberation. Em J. Bentz & J. R. Trajkovi (Eds.), Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures: Art-Science Approaches and Inspirations From Around the World (pp. 31–35). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-9029-9_4