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Editorial

Martino. The interview that the Cardinal, President of the Papal
Council for Justice and Peace, has given to our Review – together with
another important interview to the national ecclesiastical counsellor
of the Federation of Farmers, Father Renato Gaglianone – which is
printed in the “Focus” section of this issue, centralized around the
theme of the relation between religion and environment, considered
under a doctrinal, historical, philosophical point of view, as part of
other original contributions accompanying the interviews by the two
authoritative exponents of the Church.
As the reader may have noticed, at the end of its first year, Silvæ
presents an innovation: a supplement enclosed in the third section of
the present issue which offers a new and original deep unpublished
survey on the sentences by the Constitutional Court on environmental
protection. As we well know interventions by the Constitutional
Court called to determine on environmental issues from the first half
of the eighties have been more and more frequent, thanks to a
growing sensitivity shown by Institutions for the preservation of the
delicate balance linked to the environment and the quality of our life.
Those “pronounces”, have been so numerous and so important as to
produce a real “Jurisprudence on the environment” and Silvæ has so
decided to bring them to the attention of the readers, aiming at the
same time at pointing out those new elements and those elements of
discontinuity that can be found in the decisions by the Constitutional
Court before and after the constitutional law of the 18 of October
th
2001, n. 3 came into force, as well as harmonizing the objective for a
confrontation of present and past and proposing a timely study on
present-day conditions.

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