Environmental context and socio-technical lock The environmental pressures exerted by human activities on the environment are leading to profound changes in the latter. Their impact on human and non-human life is already being felt and is growing.A number of studies, notably those by [Rockström2009] and [Steffen2015], attempt to quantify the…
Background and general issues In order to adapt to ongoing global changes, in particular climate change (see [IPC18]) or biodiversity loss [IPB19], the United Nations (UN) [UN18] has drawn up a list of 17 sustainable development goals, including goal 12: “Establish sustainable consumption and production patterns”. To achieve this goal,…
Les sociétés modernes sont caractérisés par un très haut niveau d’interconnexions globales entre de nombreux secteurs d’activité économique. Ces interconnexions généralisées sont porteuses de risques d’instabilité intrinsèques, dits systémiques. Causes Les interconnexions mentionnées sont assez complexes. Le World Economic Forum produit annuellement un document d’évaluation de perception de ces risques…
Denis Dupré Date: Thursday 05 December 2019 – 11.30am-1.30pm Location : Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes – Grand Amphi ; Bus line TAG C1 Summary: Finance: the firestarter of collapse (Part I) : How does modern finance share responsibility for ecological and societal collapse? In this talk, we will look in…
Pierre-Yves Longaretti Presentation: EcoInfo conference on 26 November 2019 Summary: The notion of sufficiency refers to an implicit distinction between desires and needs, with the distinction between the two coming under the notion of limits and the search for ‘authentic happiness’. But this approach is ambiguous, or at least incomplete:…
Sophie Wahnich Date: Thursday 24 September 2019 – 11.30am-1.30pm Location : Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes – Grand Amphi ; TAG line C1 Summary: The french king was not hated in 1789; far from it, he was praised as a king who listened to his people, because the Third Estate, which…
Summary: This conference provides an overview – by no means exhaustive – of the barriers to action on environmental issues. It focuses largely on psychological, biological and cognitive barriers. These barriers, which act at the level of individuals and groups, facilitate the effect of more structural and significant barriers, such…
Grégoire Chambaz 16 Juin 2019 Summary: Faced with future challenges and the risk of societal collapse, voluntary simplification is regularly presented as a difficult but functional solution. Its aim would be to make societies more sustainable by reducing the overall consumption of resources. But is it really a feasible or…
Christophe Bonneuil Date: Thursday 13 June 2019 – 11.30am-1.30pm Location : Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes – Grand Amphi ; TAG line C1 Summary: For half a millennium, defining the Earth’s wealth, equilibrium and limits, and its ‘proper’, sustainable and rational use, has been an issue of power. Rather than an…
