Mara Maretti
Prof. Mara Maretti (PhD) is Full Professor of Sociology in the School of Economy, Law and Sociology at the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). She is Head for the Computational Social Research Lab of the Department of Law and Social Sciences. Her's primary research areas are Methodology of Social Research, Computational Social Research, Sociology of Environment and Sustainable Development in Urban and Rural Contexts, Energy Poverty and Energy Transition, Social Inequality and Social Policies
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The chapter aims at representing the results of a case study with concern to the economic and environmental crisis triggered by Ilva in Taranto.
Design/methodology/approach
The case study design follows an ethnographic approach. The analysis is based on the collection of some qualitative interviews and documentation related to the environmental conflict engendered by the Ilva of Taranto, which has been the largest steel mill in Europe since the 1990s.
Findings
The analysis of the empirical data shows some interesting insights about (a) the growing contradictions in time of crisis in the relationship between the ‘the four pillars’ of sustainability (economy, social justice and society, environment, culture); (b) the importance of the social pillar in playing a key role in the management of local conflicts and in stimulating change within social and economic organizations; (c) the difficulty to promote sustainable policies through a multilevel governance approach able to synthesize the complexity of the scenarios emerging at the local, regional, national and European levels, in order to create an alternative way of development.
Originality/value
The ethnographic approach is useful to analyse in depth the core of the environmental conflict and the divergent developmental scenarios expressed by the different categories of actors.
Papers by Mara Maretti