Ecological trajectories and society
The research team Ecological TrajectorieS & Society (TESS) studies the interactions between ecological processes and the organization of human societies within social-ecological systems (SES). Our approaches are interdisciplinary, ranging from classical methods in ecology, to methods used in anthropology and economics.
In general, we are interested in the study of the emergence of complexity in SESs. Our objectives are to understand and foresee the dynamics of ecosystem management and the governance of SESs, specially focusing in their capacity of transformation. We are largely falling within the objectives of the interdisciplinary commission 52 of the CNRS.
TEAM LEADER: Bruno Colas
PERMANENT STAFF
Juan Fernandez-Manjarrés, Nathalie Frascaria-Lacoste, Jane Lecomte, Sébastien Ollier, Samuel Roturier, Anne-Charlotte Vaissière, Améline Vallet
DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Pierre Chassé, Sarah Cogos, Mohamed Diallo, Timothée Fouqueray, Antoine Le Gal
TEMPORARY MEMBERS (POST-DOCS OR CDDS)
Julie Lombard-Latune, Anaël Mayeur, Angévine Masson
Research areas:
In this research axis, we focus on the causes and effects of management decisions, ecosystem governance, and public policies on the evolution of territories such as biodiversity offsetting.
The targeted social-ecological systems range from managed forests and cultivated areas in Europe, urban metropolitan and peri-urban areas in France and Europe, as well as different ecosystems in the Andes in tropical South America.
Here, we focus on the evolutionary process occurring in managed landscapes, mostly on agricultural settings but not exclusively. On a much larger scale, this research axis explores the interactions of human and non-human species and how human decisions can change the evolutionary trajectories of both.
The human enterprise can no longer be considered as simply as an external disturbance acting upon ecosystems. Evolutionary biologists and ecologists increasingly appreciate the value of indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) for research into past, present and future of biodiversity. However the challenge of understanding and interpreting the interactions between human and non-human beings in the ecosystem functioning must be tackled through an interdisciplinary approach.
“ILK and ecology” includes research in ecology and ethnoecology that focus on knowledge about, and uses of, ecosystem functioning by human communities, and on the relationships between the different knowledge systems about nature.
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