Docent Prof. Mihai VALICĂ, PhD,
Scientific Researcher III with CE-MONT/INCE/ROMANIAN ACADEMY
DOI: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10397233
The mountain and national economic research and ethics, as an integral part of a social market economy, are essential for a sustainable global and European political cohesion and involve the grounds for the actual observance of human dignity and the responsibility of those that decide on local destinies, for an authentic social and economic equity. The systemic malfunctions of a consumerist market economy, according to which a society may exempt itself from the censorship of morals, social equity, spiritual bioethics and culture, and may replace them with the rationality, profit at any cost and technological progress that led to the current environmental, political and economic crisis. These are joined by the bleak outlook of the new era, entitled “COVID-19”, namely the era of the biological warfare, economic supremacy and limitless power, orchestrated by the great military and economic powers of the world. Against this background, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen issued, on July 7th, 2020, a historic document, with plan code Q2 2021, entitled: “Long-term vision for rural areas” (2040) – which also includes the mountain – through which she invites all European citizens to send sustainable economic proposals for surviving the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. The main purpose of the document is finding new solutions for avoiding food and environmental crises, in the context of a demographic growth at global level – Horizon 2050, towards 9.5 billion inhabitants and, implicitly, for the local implementation of the European Green Deal.
Keywords:
spiritual bioethics, social market economy, plan code Q2 – 2021, European Green Deal, common agricultural and mountain policy, COVID-19, political correctness and subsidiarity
How to cite this article
Valică, M. (2020). Principles and proposals for the research of mountain economy during the COVID-19 pandemic: Spiritual and cultural bioethical approach. Journal of Montology, 12, 30–34. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10397233