Governing biodiversity: how to succeed and fail?

  • Category: HiPhiS - Inter-university seminar on the history and philosophy of science
  • Dates : March 14, 2023
  • Opening hours: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
  • Location: Faculty of Science, SC-10.01, Triolet Campus, Building 10, Place Eugène-Bataillon

By Vincent Devictor, ecologist and philosopher of science, CNRS researcher at Montpellier's Institut des Sciences de l'évolution.

Why is the ecological transition designed to last forever? Why do we manage to fail so brilliantly when it comes to ecological policy? I propose to retrace the reasons behind the fiasco of biodiversity governance as a global political issue. In particular, I examine the disappearance of the political and ecological content of the biodiversity crisis: a management and accounting model of biodiversity mystifies the causes of nature's destruction. In this model, ethical issues such as ecological and evolutionary dynamics are systematically sidestepped. In conclusion, I propose a few points to defend in order to reject this managerial model of the ecological crisis.

This conference opens a new HiPhiS thematic cycle for 2023, entitled "Science communication: certainties, uncertainties and decision-making".

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