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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Daniela Perrotti\, Elisabetta Rosa\, and Nicola Bertoldi\, "A conceptual analysis of agency in urban metabolism studies from the standpoint of industrial and social ecology: An exploration of methodological issues"
DESCRIPTION:Attention\, location and time change! Exceptionally\, the session will take place between 14:00 and 16:00 on the Saint-Gilles campus\, room AV-02\, Bâtiment Lemaire (ground floor in the fore part of the building\, just before the courtyard)\, Rue Wafelaerts\, 47-51\, Bruxelles. \nSeries: Urban Metabolism \nSpeakers: Daniela Perrotti\, Elisabetta Rosa\, and Nicola Bertoldi (Urban Metabolism Lab\, LAB\, Université Catholique de Louvain). \nTitle: « A conceptual analysis of agency in urban metabolism studies from the standpoint of industrial and social ecology: An exploration of methodological issues. » \nAbstract \nIndustrial ecology (IE) (Kennedy\, 2016) and social ecology (SE) (Fischer-Kowalski & Weisz\, 2016) deploy\, respectively\, the concepts of urban and social metabolism to characterise the complex dynamics underlying different social-ecological systems. Both research fields are rooted in systems thinking: On the one hand\, IE relies on an ecosystem/urban system concept that can be traced back to systems ecology in the vein of E. P. and H. T. Odum (E. P. Odum\, 1953; H. T. Odum\, 1983; E. P. Odum & Barrett\, 2005); on the other hand\, SE is explicitly embedded in the “metatheoretical framework” provided by Niklas Luhmann’s (1995) approach to social systems. \nHowever\, IE or SE have generally under-theorised a concept that is becoming increasingly crucial for grasping the scientific\, social\, and political stakes of studying social-ecological systems: the notion of agency. Therefore\, how would it be possible to foster a systematic and systemic understanding of agency within an IE and SE view of the metabolism of urban socio-ecological systems? \nThis session explores methodological issues arising from an attempt to answer this question by analysing the concept of agency as it can be inferred from E. P. Odum’s Fundamentals of Ecology and H. T. Odum’s Systems Ecology. To this aim\, we identified ecosystem\, energy\, hierarchy\, and spatial/temporal scale as fundamental notions structuring the view of ecological and social-technical systems contained in those texts. From such notions and relying on a minimal definition of the agency concept as an entity’s capacity to exert an influence on its surroundings\, we extracted further concepts\, cognate to the latter\, as fundamental blocks for building a systems ecology-based characterisation of what agents are and do. During our presentation\, we will discuss how Luhmann’s view of social systems can be used to enrich such a characterisation and construct conceptual narratives unpacking how agency in the metabolism of cities is understood from IE’s and SE’s standpoints. \nReferences \nFischer-Kowalski\, M.\, & Weisz\, H. (2016). The Archipelago of social ecology and the island of the Vienna School. In H. Haberl\, M. Fischer-Kowalski\, F. Krausmann\, & V. Winiwarter (Eds.)\, Social Ecology. Society-Nature Relations across Time and Space (pp. 3–28). Springer. \nKennedy\, C. A. (2016). Industrial Ecology and Cities. In R. Clift & A. Druckman (Eds.)\, Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology (pp. 69–86). Springer. \nLuhmann\, N. (1995). Social Systems. Stanford University Press. \nOdum\, E. P. (1953). Fundamentals of Ecology. W. B. Saunders Company. \nOdum\, E. P.\, & Barrett\, G. W. (2005). Fundamentals of Ecology (5th Edition). Thomson Brooks/Cole. \nOdum\, H. T. (1983). Systems Ecology: An Introduction. Wiley.
URL:https://cefises.be/fr/evenement/cefises-seminar-apr-19/
LOCATION:Faculté d’architecture\, d’ingénierie architecturale\, d’urbanisme\, Rue Henri Wafelaerts 47/51\, Saint-Gilles\, 1060\, Belgium
ORGANIZER;CN="Nicola Bertoldi":MAILTO:nicola.bertoldi@uclouvain.be
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SUMMARY:CEFISES Seminar: Pierre Walckiers\, "Science\, narrative and argumentation in negotiations on the dematerialization of genetic resources: feedback from the last session of the Plant Treaty Governing body (ITPGRFA\, FAO)"
DESCRIPTION:Livestream  https://youtu.be/cwTGTiCs3Es \nSeries: Work-In-Progress \nSpeaker: Pierre Walckiers (UCLouvain) \nTitle: « Science\, narrative and argumentation in negotiations on the dematerialization of genetic resources: feedback from the last session of the Plant Treaty Governing body (ITPGRFA\, FAO) » \nAbstract: \nThis presentation examines the use of scientific arguments in the context of negotiations on international instruments that handle the digitization of genetic resources and the status of digital sequence information (DSI). We will focus on negotiations on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)\, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food (ITPGRFA) and Agriculture and the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework (PIP). The digitization of genetic resources involves the sequencing of physical substances and the processing of data\, which radically changes research practices. In this context\, different legal interpretations and political narratives are conflicting over the integration of DSI into these legal frameworks. Although a constructive and still-to-be-negotiated instrument was adopted at the last CBD Conference of the Parties\, the latest meeting of the governing bodies once again revealed contradictory (scientific) narratives. With an interdisciplinary approach (legal techniques and legal philosophy\, and philosophy of science)\, this presentation will analyze the (strategic and epistocratic) use of science in the DSI negotiations\, with comparative discourse analyses on the use of terms (that influence the scope of DSI)\, relation with the definition of “genetic material” and on Access and Benefit-sharing mechanism. While scientific arguments play a crucial role in this technical issue\, we are witnessing the emergence of a “scientific narrative” that uses the argument of science to defend political positions and specific interests. And yet\, when we compare the positions of states and stakeholders on several issues\, we see that this scientific narrative is not constant\, and is even contradictory (between PIP and CBD/ITPGRFA).
URL:https://cefises.be/fr/evenement/cefises-seminar-apr-26-b/
LOCATION:Salle Ladrière\, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 (bâtiment Socrate\, a.124)\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, 1348\, Belgium
ORGANIZER;CN="Max Bautista-Perpiny%C3%A0":MAILTO:max.bautista@uclouvain.be
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SUMMARY:Post-Darwinian Societies Seminar: Santiago López Cantor\, "The Impact of Morality on the Political Support for Public Policies: A Theoretical Analysis"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Santiago López Cantor (AMSE) \nTitle: « The Impact of Morality on the Political Support for Public Policies: A Theoretical Analysis » \nAbstract:\nIndividual attitudes toward the environment are commonly motivated by moral imperatives\, I study the implicit effect of such morality on the prevalence of public policies. This paper investigates the influence of morality on the political support of public policies\, with a focus on redistributive policies\, under the context of private provision of a public good\, i.e. the environment. The theoretical framework employs a modeling approach where agents’ behavior is characterized as a convex combination of the rational self-interest of a standard economic agent (homo oeconomicus) and the moral universalization of actions akin to the Kantian categorical imperative (homo kantiensis). By examining how the degree of morality among agents affects societal choices in policy-making\, particularly regarding redistributive policies\, key insights are revealed. As expected\, a larger degree of morality among agents leads to an overall increase in the provision of the public good. However\, this heightened morality also results in a reduction in the scale of redistributive policies within equilibrium. These findings shed light on the complex interplay between individual morality and public policy preferences\, offering implications for understanding the dynamics of political support and the pursuit of collective welfare in modern societies. \nRegistration is free\, but required for participation via Microsoft Teams: please e-mail dina.geron@uclouvain.be.
URL:https://cefises.be/fr/evenement/post-darwinian-29-apr-2024/
LOCATION:Online (Microsoft Teams)
ORGANIZER;CN="Charles Pence":MAILTO:charles.pence@uclouvain.be
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