The complexity of the socio-economics systems and their issues (biodiversity, climate, development, inequalities, food safety...) call to an interdisciplinary approach to better understand, and identify or build a set of possible responses. This need of crossed perspectives, from key concepts and disciplinary methods, becomes apparent once we confront concrete practical cases.
With this mind, we offer a 3-yeay course unit (UE) aimed to develop the crossed perspectives on environmental issues throught study of territories. The UE itself is the result of a interdisciplinary construction work between biologists, chemists, climatologists, ecologists and economists. The cours is designed to be taught by teachers of these various fields. To ensure the study of practical cases, we focus on one theme - land uses and land use planning (or not) - and one area - Ile-de-France - involving processes, heterogenous and independent environments and actors at different scales (In 2022/23, the practical case was on the plateau de Saclay development, but it could change from one year to the next).
The first class will be an introduction of the theme of land use et their issues, interdisciplinary frameworks and the case study. Each of the 4 next classes will be organized in a in-depth theme lecture hall, according to the field (economics, ecologics, chemistry, climate) fllowed by a short class in the form of an analysis of the case study or a similar one. An extra class will be focused to the involved actors in the controversy and governance issues. The rest of the course will be organized around group projects to answer a problem of the case study precised by students.
LINKS BETWEEN THE COURSE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)
This course focuses directly on the following sustainability issues:
- SDG 9 Build a resilient infrastructure, promote a sustainable industrialization that benefites everyone and incite innovation
- SDG 11 Ensure cities and human settlements are open to everyone, safe, resilent and sustainable
- SDG 15 Preserve and restore terrestrial ecosystems, ensuring sustainable use, sustainable forest management, desertification, and reversing the soil deterioration process and put an end to the biodiversity loss.
How the course take those issues into account?
The overall objective of the course is to deploy and cross interdisciplinary perspectives on socio-ecological issues throught study of territories. More precisly, it aims to develop skills of analysis and assessment of wether or not sustainable land use planning is or might be. The aim is to ensure that ecological (climate, biodiversity, pollution...), economical (employment, transports, infrastructures...) and social (quality of life, inequalities...) issues are taken into consideration. As such, the course not only directly focuses on various SDGs, but also seek to articulate them.
- Teaching coordinator: Mouchet Maud
- Teaching coordinator: Schmutz Benoit
- Teaching coordinator: Tantet Alexis
- Teaching coordinator: Touboul David