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Team Leader : Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde
The ECN-team “environment : concepts and norms” conducts interdisciplinary research on the conceptual structures underlying our spontaneous environmental cognition and on the institutional frameworks and norms (legal and economic) prevailing over our relationship to natural environments.
More particularly, the team focuses on the following themes and set of questions
The status of nature : whether natural entities are objects or subjects, in the law, and in people’s minds. We critically assess the current legal moves towards nature’s juridical personification. We envision this and alternative possibilities in terms of their conceptual coherence, legal signification, and ecological efficiency. Rivers, the ocean, oceanic entities (as diverse as plankton or icebergs), glaciers, snow, atmospheric processes, plants, are considered from this legal-conceptual perspective.
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Post-doctoral fellows
PhD Students
Masters
Within this project, one crucial work-package (WP6) is entrusted to ECN team. ECN will be directly involved in three main tasks.
1) Modelling the contribution of biological functions to the production of ecosystemic services in order to develop biodiversity value indices that integrate the functional relevance of species in an ecosystem. [Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, ECN - José Montoya, theoretical ecology, SETE, CNRS]
2) Merging economic valuation and deliberative methodologies in the assessment of marine ecosystems value [Bartosz Bartowski and Julian Massenberg Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, and Eva Wanek and Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, ECN]
3) Renewing concepts and paradigms in Ocean Governance and maritime legal frameworks [André Abreu, Tara Ocean, and Roberto Casati and Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, ECN].
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