5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025)

Securing natural resources for shared prosperity is the prime agenda of millions of individuals, groups, communities and society who are faced with the grappling concern of climate change. While clean water is essential for drinking and domestic purposes the pressure on land based resources is also quite phenomenal thus protecting land and water in the context of depleting resources that necessitates the conservation of shared prosperity and inclusive growth.

This can further be witnessed as a cumulative and interlinked impact that hits the 8.1 billion living on this planet. The sharp decline of natural resources due to excessive and over exploitation coupled with the nexus of controlling authorities has led to the glaring issue of access, control, governance and overall corporatization creating a new class of oppressors and those vehemently oppressed.

Hence, to address the unjust and unequal power relations along with an inequitable distribution of land, water and forest, requires mechanisms for creating a resilient ecosystem that shall entail a coordinated solution through a bottom-up-approach by Civil Society Organizations and social movements. As climate change becomes a global emergency, therefore at this juncture it is very important to address and debate the issues of formal and informal justice systems, eminent domain and prospective community centric solutions for the betterment of all.