Phd in PUBLIC, COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

Thesis title: Lo strumento della collaborazione a tutela dell’interesse ambientale

The purpose of this research is to verify whether it is possible to conceive within our legal system another way of ‘administering’ based on collaboration between citizens and public administrations for the protection of environmental interests, in their capacity as widespread, general and intergenerational interests. Furthermore, it aims to determine whether this method of intervention is the most suitable and appropriate for promoting specific protection solutions, to resolve environmental issues affecting urban and extra-urban ecosystems in the best possible way. The question therefore arises as to whether the time is finally ripe to imagine a new central role for collaboration in the contemporary administrative law system, in accordance with the most recent constitutional interpretation of the principle of horizontal subsidiarity referred to in Article 118, paragraph 4, of the Constitution, which is based on the enhancement and active promotion of initiatives of general interest by public administrations