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Participation in the conference Baltehums III

In the background of the picture, a brown wooden door in the building, at which three researchers of the project are standing. From the left - Kristīne Krumberga, Karīna Ješkina and Artis Svece. The inscription "Universytet Rektotat" on a gilded plate above the door.
In the background of the picture, a brown wooden door in the building, at which three researchers of the project are standing. From the left - Kristīne Krumberga, Karīna Ješkina and Artis Svece. The inscription "Universytet Rektotat" on a gilded plate above the door.

From 23-25 In October, the Third Baltic Conference on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences, Baltehums III, took place in Poznań, Poland.

Kristīne Krumberga participated in the "Water Management" section of the conference with the paper "Human-Water Relationships in Law". The report provided a historical analytical insight into how the discourses of various rights have shaped and are shaping water environments in Latvia as objects of management. One of the findings of the study - conflict situations related to the use, management and protection of water are often based on the ideological and normative dissonance between the anthropocentric perspective established in the Civil Law, which constructs the water environment as objects of property rights, and the sectoral laws, in which the ecosystemic understanding of human-water relations is gaining more and more importance in the context of environmental law.

Project researchers Karīna Ješkina and Artis Svece also participated in the conference. Karīna Ješkina contributed to the section on care, affect, and the environment with a report examining how residents of two national parks express their care for forests and trees. Artis Svece participated in the discussion on environmental protection and activism in the Baltics. In this discussion, the intellectual foundations of Baltic environmental protection were discussed, as well as the forms of environmental activism in Latvia and Estonia during the Soviet period.

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