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Participation in the 82nd international scientific conference of the University of Latvia. Section “Nature: The Interdisciplinary Perspective”

The picture shows the first slide of the presentation with the title ‘Water (un)presence in Latvia's imagination of the future: a contingent analysis of policies’. The bottom part of the slide has the project, University of atvia and the LZP logos.
The picture shows the first slide of the presentation with the title ‘Water (un)presence in Latvia's imagination of the future: a contingent analysis of policies’. The bottom part of the slide has the project, University of atvia and the LZP logos.

In her presentation at the 82nd conference of the University of Latvia, project researcher Kristīne Krumberga gave an insight into which categories and to what extent water and water-related issues are seen and imagined in the perspective of management or in the long-term plans of various sectors and what kind of future of human-water relations they project.

The main conclusions:

  • the policies of various sectors represent and maintain the prevailing anthropocentric and modern ideas and imaginations about the importance of water/waters in nature and in relation to people.
  • the human-water relationship is subordinate to the human-land relationship.
  • water/waters are recognized as a collective value to the extent that they do not hinder or benefit humans.
  • The results of the analysis also encourage us to reflect on how we look, think and interact with water individually and as a society.

The full conference presentation in latvian is available here.

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