3.5 Healing Relational Problems Through Empathy, Compassion, and Care with Margherita Paola Poto

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How can we welcome the Arctic? How can the Arctic welcome us? Join Margherita Paola Poto, as she discusses about empathy, compassion and care in the environment. Despite the Arctic being one of the coldest places on Earth, Margherita’s stories of her exploration in the Arctic bring warmth as she provides a refreshing insight on developing relationships among people and the Earth.

​​Margherita Paola Poto is a Researcher at the Faculty of Law, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and a Professor of Administrative Law from the University of Turin, Italy.

She is currently involved in an interdisciplinary project at the crossroads of food, environment, and health. Her research interests cover administrative and comparative law, environmental law, indigenous law and methodology, ocean and nature-centered visions. She is particularly interested in new methodological approaches to law that encompass indigenous methodologies, community and gender-sensitive research, storytelling and illustration.

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