Sabine Bar­les, Pro­fes­sor of geog­ra­phy, Uni­ver­sité Paris 1 — Pan­théon Sor­bonne, Géo­gra­phie Cité (CNRS UMR 8504).

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For the replay: https://videos.epog.eu

The recog­ni­tion of both the uni­ty and unic­i­ty of the plan­et Earth has led some schol­ars to look for its lim­its, or, more accu­rate­ly, the bound­aries that should be giv­en to human activ­i­ty in order to pre­vent socio-eco­log­i­cal col­lapse, some of them being already exceed­ed. The course will present the notion of plan­e­tary bound­aries and give some rel­e­vant exam­ples illus­trat­ing their inter­dis­ci­pli­nary and mul­ti-scale dimen­sions. It will dis­cuss the gap exist­ing between envi­ron­men­tal pol­i­cy and plan­e­tary bound­aries issues.

STEFFEN, W. et al. « Plan­e­tary bound­aries: Guid­ing human devel­op­ment on a chang­ing plan­et », Sci­ence 347(6223), 13 févr. 2015. 

WIJKMAN, A., ROCKSTRÖM, J. Bank­rupt­ing Nature: Deny­ing our Plan­e­tary Bound­aries. Rout­ledge, 2012.