The Monthly Global Change Review #11

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Publication Info: Medium

Date of Publication: February 18

Year of Publication: 2022

Publication City: Lyon, France

Publisher: Medium - Ecole Urbaine de Lyon

Author(s): Berenice Gagne

Journal: THE MONTHLY GLOBAL CHANGE REVIEW

Volume: 11

Pages: 1

Top photo: “For what it’s worth — Copper — Palabora Mine — 4.1 million tonnes of copper” (detail)
© Dillon Marsh.

A monthly publication by Lyon Urban School (Université de Lyon), written by Berenice Gagne, dedicated to a better understanding of global change and the Anthropocene urban world: a selection of news in many fields of study, which aims to grasp the world we live in and the world to come.

February 2022

In the Anthropocene, can we keep teaching as if we were still living in the Holocene? More than 40 researchers and teacher-researchers from different backgrounds (from the natural sciences to the humanities and social sciences, including law, economics, management, agronomy and medicine) have combined their knowledge to help us understand the mechanisms and consequences of global warming and the erosion of biodiversity, as well as their relationship to our lifestyles and consumption patterns. Enjeux de la transition écologique. Enseigner la transition écologique aux étudiants de licence à l’université [The stakes of the ecological transition. Teaching the ecological transition to university undergraduates] is available for free on HAL (what else?). Meanwhile in the city, the circular economy invites to deconstruct and build in an uninterrupted flow of materials and waste, with a vibrant motto: REUSE!

Berenice GagneBerenice Gagne
Urban School of Lyon – Watching over the Anthropocene Urban World & Global Change. Born in CO2 332ppm, my children 400 and 406

📢 Enjoy reading or listening to original Anthropocene podcasts: Net ZeroAlgorithms , Drink or Drive.

Check out the selection of Anthropocene Good Reads #2020: 60 books in many fields of knowledge to help understand what is happening and what is coming.

If you have any comments or suggestions to enhance this daily monitoring, feel free to share: berenice.gagne@universite-lyon.fr

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“For what it’s worth — Copper — Palabora Mine — 4.1 million tonnes of copper” © Dillon Marsh. The photographer materializes by a sphere the mass of ore (here copper) extracted from a mine in South Africa.

URBAN

– “Deconstructing in architecture: Rotor, a Belgian multidisciplinary collective of architects and researchers, has placed the flow of construction materials at the center of its work. Their approach, attentive to resources, waste and reuse, exposes the issues of material deconstruction in the recent history of architecture. As reuse returns to the heart of practice, it also carries alternative narratives insofar as it incites local, circular, and small-scale actions and enables new alliances” (AOC, 27/01/2022).

– “Should we draw the transition? Transition is in everyone’s mind, but how can we move from wishful thinking and often theoretical to new design practices? Landscape architect and illustrator Hélène Copin provides a critical reading of the collective work Dessiner la transition. Dispositifs pour une métropole écologique [Drawing the transition. Devices for an ecological metropolis]” (métropolitiques, 20/01/2022).

– Matières à faire. Le kit de l’économie circulaire [Materials to do. The circular economy kit]: a practical guide from the Société du Grand Paris to limit the consumption of natural resources and improve the management of waste from the construction of the Grand Paris Express and the 2024 Olympic Games.

”Bodies in urban spaces” © Willi Dorner — Photo: Lisa Rastl

ACADEMIC

– Enjeux de la transition écologique. Enseigner la transition écologique aux étudiants de licence à l’université [The stakes of the ecological transition. Teaching the ecological transition to university undergraduates], a book resulting from the collaboration of more than 40 researchers and teacher-researchers from all disciplines in free access (HAL,29/01/2022).

AGRICULTURE & FOOD

– “Biosecurity jeopardizes free-range farming: anthropologists Charles Stépanoff and Frédéric Keck and sociologist Jocelyne Porcher are concerned about the measures taken to fight the H5N1 virus in France, which affects poultry farms. A slaughter plan has been adopted, whereas it is the industrial production mode that should be questioned” (Le Monde, 11/02/2022).

– Reading of Capital Terre, une histoire longue du monde d’après (XIIe-XXIe siècle) [Land Capital, a long history of the world after (12th — 21st century)] (Payot, 2021) by Alessandro STANZIANI: “The long history of agriculture that has become productivist and capitalist, from the transformation of seeds and species to the exploitation of producers, through the expropriation of peasants and the chemistry of fertilizers and pesticides” (la vie des idées, 02/02/2022).

– “Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century” (PLOS Climate, 01/02/2022).

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