The planet's habitability (CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences thematic priority)

Find out more about the research being carried out at CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences and its laboratories on the theme of the planet's habitability.

The issues associated with climate change and broader environmental change involve all CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences disciplines. These include the issues perceived, described and taken into account (or not); envisaged and implemented scenarios, the study of their transferability levels and possible generalisation; analysis of the forms of vulnerability of individuals and groups and of inequalities and the way these structures and are structured by current and future developments. The primary focus is on just transitions, namely the need for contemporary societies to face the consequences of climate change and broader environmental change by adapting. This can be achieved through the development of economies that are sustainable from an environmental standpoint but also economically, culturally, politically and in social terms. This work involves long and very long-term studies which means it is possible to learn from changes to ancient societies and even their disappearance; comparative approaches suited to the wide range of possible applications given the profound territorialisation of situations; the interplay of scales given that local-level changes and solutions dovetail with their global counterparts; micro-local and experiential analyses aimed at understanding the deep-rooted mechanisms of usage and the large datasets required to best understand processes and create projections of possible trajectories; the study of controversies and the forms of expertise involved in decision-making, etc.

The accepted meanings of shared sciences range from the involvement of populations in data collection to the co-production of science through knowledge-sharing mechanisms and are also strongly involved in work on this priority subject for the Institute. This priority means numerous interdisciplinary collaborations with other sciences are involved.

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Research centers and networks

CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences laboratories

 

Theme linked to the CNRS Objectives and Performance Contract (COP)

The following societal challenges

  • climate change,
  • territories of the future,
  • energy transition,
  • health 
  • environment.

Research Program

  • CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences is involved in the IRIMA Priority Research Programme and Equipment  IRIMA Priority Research Programme and Equipment or PEPR with funding from the Investments for the Future programme PIA4. Soraya Boudia leads the programme for the CNRS.
  • CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences is involved in the TRANSFORM Priority Research Programme and Equipment or PEPR with funding from the Investments for the Future programme PIA4. Frédérique Aït-Touati and Wolfgang Cramer leadf the programme for the CNRS.
  • CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences is involved in the VDBI Priority Research Programme and Equipment or PEPR with funding from the Investments for the Future programme PIA4. Jean-Yves Toussaint and Gilles Gesquières lead the programme for the CNRS.

 

Junior professor's chair

  • In 2022 CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences provided a junior professor's chair on "Earth habitability and just transitions" in 2022. This led to the recruitment of Ms N. Martin who was assigned to the Institute of Legal and Philosophical Sciences of the Sorbonne (ISJPS) in 2023.

CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences post-doctorate

  • The CNRS Foundation is financing a post-doctorate position in environmental geography/spatial modelling at the Western Institute: Law and Europe. This post-doctorate position is entitled "Évaluation des outils de gestion foncière pour une transition agroécologique" (Evaluation of land management tools for an agro-ecological transition) and is co-supervised by Ms Langlais and Mr Houet from the Coastline, Environment, Remote Sensing, Geomatics unit (LETG) in 2023-2024.