The challenges of ecology

The challenges posed by the ecological question are as practical as it is theoretical. Where to locate the border between humanity and nature ? How to integrate the concern for the long term in democratic deliberation ? The life of ideas offers a selection of texts to better understand these issues.

Podcasts ::

Interview with Roger Guesnerie, “Copenhagen: an economic challenge ? “, December 7, 2009.

Interview with Dominique Méda, “After the Stiglitz report, how to measure wealth ? “, September 15, 2009.

Testing ::

Sylvie Ollitrault, ” NGO and ecological alert “, December 8, 2009.

Dominique Bourg, Kerry Whiteside, “for an ecological democracy”, 1er September 2009.

Philippe Descola, “to whom nature belongs ? “, January 21, 2008 ..

Recovery ::

About Jean Tirole, Climate policy: a new international architecture,, Cae/French documentation: Thierry Bréchet, Henry Tulkens, “better distribute the costs of climate policy”, December 7, 2009.

About Jean-Louis Fellous, Catherine Gautier (dir.), Understanding climate changeOdile Jacob: Matthieu Calame, “Welcome to the Anthropocene”, March 10, 2008. (Article244)

About Jean-Marie Schaeffer, The end of the human exceptionGallimard: Emmanuel Bezy, “For a natural history of man”, January 21, 2008.

About the books of Jared Diamond: Nicolas Duvoux, Greatness and decadence of human societiesNovember 26, 2007.