Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

The major ecological and social crisis that Planet Earth, its territories, living environments and inhabitants are going through, makes it necessary to deal with systemic, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary issues related to the environment.
The increased sensitivity to the effects of human activities on the major balances of the biosphere, primarily climate change, the extinction of biodiversity, pollution, the considerable
pressure on natural resources and settlement dynamics, raise important political and social debates.
The major cycles such as water, carbon, nitrogen, the major telluric or climatic phenomena, energy resources, are all processes that must be rethought today in their interactions with
human activities. In this module, we will deal with different dimensions of this crisis and ways to respond to it.

This course will provide students with knowledge on ecological and social crisis that Planet Earth.

Indicative list of lectures

1. Introduction (Luc Abbadie et Nathalie Blanc)
2. Climate change: the Science behind the findings and projection  (Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré)
3. What does biodiversity mean? (Luc Abbabie)
4. Ordinary environmentalisms: mobilizations and spaces (Nathalie Blanc)
5. Ecological limits & global health What is the horizon of survival for humanity? (Jean François Toussaint)
6. Politics and policy of the energy transition (Cristina Peñasco)
7. Coupling social and ecological systems: theoretical and practical issues (Rémi Beau)
8. The new challenges of “natural” disaster risk reduction in the Anthropocene (Maud Devès)
9. Agroecology (Sébastien Barot)
10. The history of IPCC and the birth of sustainability sciences (Wolfrang Cramer)
11. Rights of the Nature, rights and Nature (Olivier Clerc)
12. The science and politics of Critical Zone (Jérôme Gaillardet)
13. The planetary boundaries: an interdisciplinary and multi-scale problem (Fabien Esculier)
14. An introduction to Ocean Geopolitics (Christophe Prazuck)
15. What is environmental justice about? (Valérie Deldrève)
16. Geopolitics in (ecological) transition (Sébastien Treyer)

Classes will be given in English, in the form of lecture courses.

Class teaching, discussion of specific cases, role playing, student presentation.
Oral defense.
Group projects.

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