This “Guidance Framework for Studying and Working with Integral Ecology” intends to be a practical and purposeful document that helps social centers and other sectors of CPAL, social works of other conferences, as well as other institutions, in the deepening of its affective and practical commitment in tune with the necessary ecological conversions that are described throughout the encyclical Laudato Si’. The document is in close agreement with the Strategic Plan (2020-2023) of the CPAL Social Centers Network in its mission to: “contribute to overcoming socio-economic inequalities, socio-environmental impacts and the degradation of democracies in Latin America and the Caribbean, through alternatives for social transformation based on justice and reconciliation.”
The text we present is divided into two main parts that offer, firstly, the conceptual elements, the principles, as well as the fundamental pillars of Integral Ecology, and secondly, the operationality (practical hints) of this concept, through the perspective of Socio-Environmental Justice and its different dimensions of incidence: strategic agendas and common indicators. There is a support guide attached for projects to be aligned from the perspective of Integral Ecology (n. 1), as well as the dissemination materials of the Virtual Seminars on Integral Ecology (n. 2) systematized here.
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Integral Ecology Group(RCS / CPAL)
July 2021