The research aims at addressing the ethical, social, and educational profiles regarding the management of water as fundamental and scarce resource. The so-called “water ethics” – an emerging branch of research within the paradigm of environmental and climate ethics –, together with the intergenerational justice approach will constitute the leading methodological focus of the expected proposals for addressing innovative ethical models related to the redistribution of climate-change-related costs and burdens. Comparative policy analysis and intersectional approaches will be also the key factors for addressing specific case studies, in cooperation with (all levels) institutional actors and international organizations operating on the same crucial sectors.Moreover, the research focus would encourage an “action-research” approach, devoted at privileging the comparative analysis between homologous case-studies (at national and European level), with specific reference to the following topics: adaptation to Climate change and management of water resources on regional (as well as sub- and sovra-) scale with specific reference to reproducibility and replicability in different contexts of those policies within a comprehensive intergenerational approach. The expected guiding value for the analysis and the correlative policy selection and proposals will be the trans-temporal guarantee of equal access to water as scarce resource.

Openess towards interdisciplinary approaches, together with a solid competence in the social sciences area will be appreciated.

The research will be mainly carried out at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa – Italy). The research will be developed within the Institute of Law, Politics and Development, in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Center in “Sustainability and Climate”.Due to the specificity of the project, the research path will include a secondment at the “AcquaNovara.VCO”, a leading public enterprise in the water-services sector, based in Piedmont, Italy, that can serve as reference case-study, since it has been implementing from many years a wide and multifaceted climate-change-sensitive strategy.