Postdoc 24 months [application deadline October 17, 2024]. – National and international material flows in agri-food chains and associated environmental footprints

Context The development of the bioeconomy raises questions about competition for the use of agricultural resources to meet food (human and animal), energy and materials supply needs. In addition, the fact that planetary limits are being exceeded makes it urgent to identify the causes of environmental impact, causes that can…

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M2 internship: Design and development of the Transkey game

« Playing with biophysical flows to facilitate territorial transitions » Context One of the team’s emerging lines of research aims to contribute to the design, evaluation and debate on socio-technical alternatives for the future (e.g. 2050). Biophysical accounting methods (materials, energy, land use, etc.) provide an analytical grid that gives indications of…

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M2 Internship: Modeling and field-testing the Transkey game

« Playing with biophysical flows to facilitate territorial transitions » Context One of the team’s emerging lines of research aims to contribute to the design, evaluation and debate on socio-technical alternatives for the future (e.g. 2050). Biophysical accounting methods (materials, energy, land use, etc.) provide an analytical grid that gives indications of…

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M2 Internship: Characterizing the metabolism of French agricultural sectors (national and regional scales): a fund/flow analysis

About the STEEP team: INRIA is the French national research institute dedicated to digital science and technology. It employs 2,600 people. The STEEP team is an interdisciplinary research team at the Inria Grenoble center dedicated to sustainability issues at national and sub-national scales. Background: SCALABLE is an ADEME-funded research project…

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Internship: Overview of experiments with alternative economic systems in metropolitan areas

The aim is to draw up an inventory and literature review of SCICs, SCOPs, CAEs and other forms of non-capitalist collective organization in the agri-food sector of the Grenoble metropolitan area. It would be relevant to draw up a literature grid, identify the specificities and regularities of SCICs and others,…

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M2 Internship: Physical modeling (material and energy flows) of the Cuban economy before and after the collapse of the USSR (1991)

With the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Cuba suddenly faced a 50% drop in its fossil fuel supply, and was forced to radically restructure its production and consumption patterns. The aim of the internship is to gain a better understanding of this restructuring, first by carrying out an analysis…

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PhD thesis: Analysis of the propagation dynamics of intra- and inter-sectoral disturbances in the context of short-term crises

Contexte Le World Economic Forum produit annuellement un document d’évaluation de perception des risques systémiques basé sur des dires d’experts ; ces interconnexions sont représentées graphiquement sur la figure ci-dessous, telles qu’elles ont été décrites pour l’année 2023. Cinq grandes catégories de risques peuvent être identifiées : économiques, géopolitiques, environnementaux,…

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