Le concept de transformation vers la soutenabilité : de la science à l'(in)action publique Le cas brûlant de la gouvernance des socio-écosystèmes marins et côtiers dans le climat du XXIe siècle
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Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Governance, environmental management, marine and coastal social-ecological systems, human/environment relations

description: The concept of transformation towards sustainability is currently enjoying flourishing success in environmental science literature and beyond. Evolving at the crossroads of the concept of resilience of ecosystems in ecology and governance of social-ecological systems in social sciences applied to the management of territories and natural resources in the filiation of the ecological economics, this concept attaches fundamental importance to public policies and to collective action in the advent of systemic, integrative and adaptive management of human / environment relations. Described in the literature in a theoretical (normative) way and starting from the observation of concrete cases (empirical), this paradigm shift is supposed to allow to face global change thanks to its transformative virtues and its capacity to face shocks, absorb uncertainty and complexity. An approach that aims to be more proactive and radical than those of adaptation and transition and that would involve reviewing our ways of thinking and doing through a change in representations, values and practices. Consequently, it is advisable to pass this incentive to the change of paradigm, with the sift of social science of politics, by combining them with natural sciences, in order to contribute to the project of a global, critical and constructive ecology making it possible to envisage the trajectories of possibility or impossibility of transformation towards sustainability. The aim of this Habilitation thesis is to present the frameworks of a reflexive and operational approach on the analytical categories which tend to become categories of public intervention with a view to transformation, such as those of governance of social-ecological systems and adaptive management. It thus sets itself the objective of providing keys to diagnosing and influencing the unsustainable trajectories of territories, natural resources and the societies which depend on them, in the context of global change. To do this, it intends to give political space back, by making the study of power in its interactions with knowledge, a fundamental element in understanding decision-making processes in environmental management. By doing so, it is proposed to open a new research and action project on transformation and transformational research itself, through the study of the governance of marine and coastal social-ecological systems, where these questions clearly arise. The first part takes stock of research activities at the nature/culture interface that allow us to move towards a global ecology approach, integrating the humanities and the natural sciences. The second part offers a reflexive approach to the concept of transformation, applying it to the case of the governance of the seas and oceans with a view to their sustainable management. The third part presents an anthology of papers chosen to illustrate the first two parts.