Rémi Beau, Researcher in phi­los­o­phy, Sor­bonne Uni­ver­sité and CNRS, Insti­tut d’é­colo­gie et des sci­ences de l’en­vi­ron­nement de Paris (iEES Paris, CNRS UMR 7618 – IRD 242 – INRAE 1392).

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As we face large scale envi­ron­men­tal dis­tur­bances, it is vital for human soci­eties to under­stand their depen­dence on nature’s con­tri­bu­tions. Over the past few decades, ecol­o­gy has devel­oped con­cepts to describe the rela­tion­ships between human activ­i­ties and nat­ur­al process­es, rais­ing the­o­ret­i­cal and prac­ti­cal issues. Two main con­cepts and their eth­i­cal impli­ca­tions will be pre­sent­ed in this ses­sion: “ecosys­tem ser­vices” and “nature-based solutions”.

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