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While it is now unanimously agreed that pesticides are responsible for some effects on human health, many questions remain unanswered with regard to specific pesticides, specific health outcomes sensitive populations, etc. For instance, the effects of neonicotinoids, glyphosate and SDHI have been ca

In 2021, the digital economy appears more than ever a wealth of opportunities for economic agents. However, behind the scenes also lie major environmental concerns. Digital devices are fueled with data which are processed, transferred and stored by data centers, which need tremendous electricity and

The objective of FOOD-RE is: 1) to reconstruct the environmental (ecosystem, geosystem), climatic and economic (potential food resources) conditions of the first hominins since their "out of Africa" and 2) to distinguish the environmental factors of the migratory dynamics of hominin and large herbiv

Individuals’ decisions about the environment usually occur in the presence of some degree of uncertainty about the effect of those decisions. Uncertainty is especially pervasive in the context of climate change, where decision consequences depend on complex socio-economic dynamics and their interact

INTERRUPTIONS examines newly-mechanized societies relationship to the environment in South American territories under extractivist constraint, through the study of how accidents, malfunctions and downtime fashion landscapes, technicities and society. The advancement of extractivist fronts into indig

TransIndiandairy addresses technical, organisational and institutional levers to upscale agroecological transitions. It does it by developing a multiscale framework on institutional resources regime guiding the analysis (both qualitative and quantitative) and supporting the integration of results. I

ICAD aims to re-articulate visions and projects for a more sustainable food procurement system at the scale of a territory. We define such systems as constructed by actors who coordinate their purposes, actions and resources within a circumscribed physical, cultural, economic, social and political s

Over the past 50 years, earthquakes cost US$ 800 billions – mostly developed countries – and 1.3 million human lives – mostly in developing countries. While these figures show no sign of inflection, risk awareness continues to apply the classic approach where knowledge owned by scientists is transla

Health status is the result of complex interrelationships between individual behaviors and contextual characteristics in which we live. The FabHealth project aims to explore the effects of an urban development program on both environmental exposure (air quality, noise, transport, foodscape), health-

This project aims at investigating how environmental conditions are intrinsically incorporated in the interplay among land uses in urban regions as a two-ways relationship. We argue that the literature is inconclusive on the adequate shape of environmentally friendly cities because the urban interna

SCARCYCLET gathers 21 scientists in economics, geology and engineering of materials, to study the role of mineral resources in the energy transition (ET) and of their recycling This multidisciplinary project shall contribute to the advancement in knowledge on specific dimensions of the dynamic rela

A growing number of actors and organisations are therefore now using litigation – in various ways and with varying degrees of success – as an instrument of contestation, mobilisation and beyond that, climate justice. In a context of renewed environmental democracy and participatory approaches (see t

Hunted, eaten, used, large herbivores held a central place for the nomadic hunters-collectors of the European Paleolithic. For nearly 200,000 years, Neandertals lived in changing and varied environments, adapting to sometimes extreme conditions. This huge adaptability of human societies is directly

The magnitude of ecological crises and environmental degradation puts public policies in the face of a double requirement of efficiency and justice. In this project, we aim to contribute to this challenge from the angle of environmental justice, a recent issue in both academic literature and public

Air conditioning (AC) has emerged in the 1950s United States as an effective way to cope with heat stress. It has since then massively spread across North America, Japan and urban China, but very little in the developing world. Despite providing important benefits, it generates greenhouse gas emissi

The work carried out by the team is divided into four scientific categories which evolve in parallel throughout the project (Work Package - WP): 1-Resources and environments (WP1), 2-Biological characterizations (WP2), 3-Emergence of social identities and structuring of human groups, and 4-Sharing o

The main objective of the EGOUT project is to establish, in Paris, the foundations for an integrative, objective and reactive long-term geochemical observatory and retro-observatory of socio-economic trajectories through the analysis of materials transported and accumulated in sewer networks. Teamwo

Conflicts between humans and large marine predators are increasing around the world, often resulting in excess mortality of animals without satisfactory results in terms of effectiveness (to reduce risk) and respect for conservation issues (regarding threatened species). The risk management response

Human societies are interacting with a growing number of nonhuman animal species, including exotic species during visits to zoological parks. And yet, the existence of zoos remains polemical, despite their increasing contribution to biodiversity conservation, because of ethical issues of maintaining

The upper limit of the subalpine forest represents a major landscape discontinuity, whose the spatial dynamics is associated with multiple scientific issues. As a marker of environmental change, a biodiversity hotspot and a key factor in the mitigation of gravity hazards and soil erosion, this ecoto

Last years have witnessed the rise of various citizens protest movements in the realm of environmental policy making. In face of the urgency of implementing environmental policy to tackle global environmental issues, it is crucial to understand how new citizens cleavages over environmental policy ar