‘I am an intensive guy’: the possibility and conditions of reconciliation through the ecological intensification framework

Autor: Marc Barbier, Laurent Ruiz, Alix Levain, Françoise Vertès, Luc Delaby, Chantal Gascuel-Odoux
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences, Innovations, Sociétés (LISIS), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM)-ESIEE Paris-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie (EAE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation (SAS), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Physiologie, Environnement et Génétique pour l'Animal et les Systèmes d'Elevage [Rennes] (PEGASE), AGROCAMPUS OUEST-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
Předmět:
Conservation of Natural Resources
Livestock
Process (engineering)
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
Participatory action research
Context (language use)
Conciliation
010501 environmental sciences
Interdisciplinary research
01 natural sciences
12. Responsible consumption
Land management
Political science
Reflexivity
Animals
Humans
Green tides
Agroecology
Environmental planning
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
2. Zero hunger
Global and Planetary Change
Nitrates
Ecology
business.industry
Environmental resource management
Agriculture
Grassland multi-functionality
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
15. Life on land
Models
Theoretical
Eutrophication
Pollution
Social dynamics
Conceptual framework
13. Climate action
040103 agronomy & agriculture
0401 agriculture
forestry
and fisheries
business
Intensive livestock farming
Zdroj: Environmental management
Environmental management, 2015, 56, 5 (5), pp.1184-1198. ⟨10.1007/s00267-015-0548-3⟩
Environmental management, 2015, 56, 5, pp.1184-1198. ⟨10.1007/s00267-015-0548-3⟩
ISSN: 1432-1009
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-015-0548-3⟩
Popis: The need for better conciliation between food production and environmental protection calls for new conceptual approaches in agronomy. Ecological intensification (EI) is one of the most encouraging and successful conceptual frameworks for designing more sustainable agricultural systems, though relying upon semantic ambivalences and epistemic tensions. This article discusses abilities and limits of the EI framework in the context of strong social and environmental pressure for agricultural transition. The purpose is thus to put EI at stake in the light of the results of an interdisciplinary and participatory research project that explicitly adopted EI goals in livestock semi-industrialized farming systems. Is it possible to maintain livestock production systems that are simultaneously productive, sustainable, and viable and have low nitrate emissions in vulnerable coastal areas? If so, how do local stakeholders use these approaches? The main steps of the innovation process are described. The effects of political and social dynamics on the continuity of the transition process are analyzed, with a reflexive approach. This experiment invites one to consider that making EI operational in a context of socio-technical transition toward agroecology represents system innovation, requiring on-going dialogue, reflexivity, and long-term involvement by researchers.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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