No. 20 (2026): El futuro de la ecología humana

Monographic Issue: The Future of Human Ecology

Editor: Luca Valera

The proposal that guides this special issue is based on a conviction that, in this era of ecological crisis, is unavoidable: the ecological question is, above all, an anthropological question and concerns human habitation. Human beings do not appear before the world as an external entity that randomly decides on an available environment, as if it were a warehouse that does not belong to them; quite the contrary, they inhabit reality as part of a web of relationships whose consistency shapes and is shaped by their practices. Within this perspective, human ecology is not a moral appendage to “scientific” ecology, nor a repertoire of ethical exhortations or norms presented to human beings in a heterologous manner; Rather, it is an integral way of life that calls for a rethinking of the categories that order our actions (such as technology, economics, politics, spirituality, education) and a repositioning of the common good as a normative horizon. In this sense, “healing the wound of the ecosystem” requires first healing the inner fracture that disarticulates the human subject and renders him incapable of ethically governing the technical and economic power that he himself deploys; only then does care for our common home cease to be a slogan and become a “way of life”. Ethics thus ceases to be a ‘label’ and becomes a way of inhabiting the oikos – as suggested by the etymology of ethos.