Federico MARTELLOZZO, University of Florence, Italy
Filippo RANDELLI, University of Florence, Italy
Marco GRASSO, University of Florence, Italy
Lucia FERRONE, University of Florence, Italy
The sustainability transition is a complex process, and many mechanisms hinder its evolution. Costs and burdens associated to natural resources and the transition involving them will not be equally distributed among agents, and some will face a larger share of them. Even if some agents can shoulder part of them, it is unlikely that all agents will spontaneously comply with the responsibility that the sustainability transition imposes. This paper intends to investigate how, in the context of the sustainability transition, the relevant agents must/can comply with the duties demanded by this responsibility (which can be defined as “first order” responsibility). Indeed, some agents do not comply with their own (first order) responsibility and with the consequent obligations. To understand how first order agents can be induced to act in accordance with their responsibility, the notion of “second order” responsibility is adopted. That is, the responsibility pressure resulting from other agents’ agency (i.e. society at large), that is being put onto first order agents, in order to make them comply with the mandate of their (first order) responsibility. In this normative perspective, the work proposes a quantitative analysis aiming to measure the capacity of civil societies (second order agents) to push for a responsible commitment of socio-economic agents towards the sustainability transition (first order responsibility). The analysis will be conducted on data from Italian provinces (NUTS 3).
Mots clés : sustainability transition|justice|agents of destabilization
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