PhD thesis: Systemic vulnerability of the socio-economic metabolisms of territories

Concept de vulnérabilité métabolique Le concept de “vulnérabilité métabolique”, récemment introduit par (Bahers et al., 2019), prolonge celui de “vulnérabilité environnementale”. Si les travaux se référant à la vulnérabilité environnementale (Mathis et al., 2016) s’attachent à interroger les dispositions d’une société à être plus ou moins bien préparée à supporter…

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PhD thesis: Absolute environmental assessment of a territory’s socio-technical activities with regard to the concept of Planetary Limits

1 Background and scientific issues Environment and Planetary Boundaries – LP Post-industrial human societies have become a force that can alter planetary boundaries: Climate change ; Biosphere integrity ; Soil denaturation ; Disruption of the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles ; Overexploitation of fresh water ; Atmospheric aerosol load ; Ocean…

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Technologies and health: What trade-offs between ethics, environment and climate? Reflective analysis and field experience

Valérie d'Acremont

Valérie D’Acremont Date / Time : 27 September 2021 – 11.30am – 1.30pm Place : Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes – Grand Amphi ; Ligne TAG C1 Summary : Imagine that you are a clinician working in a health centre in a country with limited resources, responsible for providing front-line care to…

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PhD thesis: Systemic analysis of energy transition scenarios under resource flow constraints: risks and feasibility

Context Scientific and social context The issue of energy transition is a key political issue at national and international level in the fight against climate change, and various national and international agencies, think tanks and NGOs have put forward energy transition scenarios. The vast majority of these scenarios focus on…

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M2 Internship: Assessing the credibility of energy transition scenarios up to 2050 inregard to energy, material and environmental combined constraints?

Subject The world is at the dawn of a possible energy transition unprecedented in the history of humanity. The necessity to shift from fossils fuels—being in the meantime the source of today’s wealth and the cause of climate change—to low-carbon energies seems indisputable. However, the feasibility of existing transition scenarios…

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SysPart: systemic and participatory analysis of metropolises

Nils Ferrand and Mathieu MangeotSupporting your participative programmes for ecological and technical transitions supported by citizens Our proposal Bringing together research teams from INRAE (formerly IRSTEA) and INRIA, and the companies Résurgences R&D and Terriflux, we offer territories committed to the socio-ecological transition new methods and tools, derived from scientific…

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SCALABLE: metabolism of agricultural biomass

Jean-Yves CourtonneFebruary 2021 – January 2024SCALABLE is interested in biomass of agricultural origin, at the various stages of the processing chain from production. Name: SCALABLE (Metabolism of biomass of agricultural origin: multi-scale representations, analysis of vulnerabilities and assessment by local stakeholders) Key words: Agricultural biomass value chains, Multiscale analysis, Multicriteria…

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