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Paper short abstract:

Starting from the European regulation (i.e. Nature Restoration Law), the research focuses on the actors involved, the network nodes activated in the construction of agricultural infrastructures, focusing on the co-production process of biodiversity concept.

Paper long abstract:

Starting from the European regulation, the research focuses on the actors involved, the network nodes activated in the construction of agricultural infrastructures. The research project aims to critically and hermeneutically reconstruct the international legislative process (between epistemology, law, and policy) that led to the drafting and subsequent approval by the European Parliament of the Nature Restoration Law and its related annexes. The link between ecosystem regeneration, biodiversity and agriculture is very close. Among the different types of ecosystems highlighted by the United Nations Environment Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, farmlands play a central role. Meanwhile Agriculture, forestry and fishing are all sectors that depend on the good state of natural ecosystems. In light of the reflections that will emerge, the research project sets the following goals: (1) understanding the imaginaries, scenarios that constitute the assumptions behind the act; (2) revealing the main ecological vision behind; (3) deepening how biodiversity is co-created inside the regulation process; (4) analyzing the form chosen for communication; (5) understanding what role citizen science, traditional knowledge has played; (6) identifying key stakeholders. In the path followed by European Union in addressing the current challenges of ecosystem restoration, the level of complexity is high. Within this systemic complexity the roles of science, policy and citizenship are intertwined. A thorough analysis of these dynamics (made through the lense of infrastructures conceptual framework) may prove to be a valuable key.