The objective of this internship is to facilitate the development of alternative approaches to the organisation of the production and consumption of goods and services that are aligned with planetary limits and whose organisational choices can be collectively determined through democratic processes.
In light of the aforementioned considerations, this internship topic will commence with the (controversial) assumption that it is desirable to re-territorialise production methods “as much as possible” in order to bring them as close as possible to the actors who contribute to them, thereby facilitating their involvement in these decisions.
In order for the relocation of production methods to constitute an autonomous ‘production system’, it is necessary for the system to be capable of ensuring its own material reproduction. This implies the capacity to produce the necessary production tools and machines.
The objective of this internship is to develop a methodology for analysing production system scenarios and to evaluate the extent of dependence on the prevailing globalised production system. To construct the scenarios, this course will endeavour to identify and extract the dependencies between the diverse technological building blocks as documented in the life cycle inventory databases (ecoinvent, ELCD) and to transcribe them into an input/output format that facilitates a more comprehensive approach than those based on direct dependencies.
This internship requires basic programming skills in Python and an interest in environmental issues in the broadest sense.
Useful approaches:
https://ciraig.org/index.php/fr/project/open-io-canada-2/
Soutenabilité, Transition, Environnement, Économie biophysique et Politiques locales
