Alice Barbe

Since 2015, several digital initiatives have been undertaken to find solutions to the problems experienced by refugees. Many of them directly or even exclusively address these problems by making available a maximum of useful information on asylum, translating and disseminating offers for jobs that could speed up the refugee’s integration, and making multilingual translations of occupational and legal documents. However the major issue in the formula of digital technology plus migrations has to… Voir plus

Since 2015, several digital initiatives have been undertaken to find solutions to the problems experienced by refugees. Many of them directly or even exclusively address these problems by making available a maximum of useful information on asylum, translating and disseminating offers for jobs that could speed up the refugee’s integration, and making multilingual translations of occupational and legal documents. However the major issue in the formula of digital technology plus migrations has to do with users’ perceptions, evidence of this being the planetary repercussions of Facebook’s presumed effects on the American elections. In other words, the diffusion and perception of a story counts even more when it is about immigration. The story about refugees tends to polarize the host society and, as a consequence, its leaders. However the way that the digital media handle this polarization (as well as the role played by the firms that own these media) is decisive: it can have a strong social impact on both refugees and the host society. In Europe and North America, reactions against immigration are rising as sensationalistic information is spread. In this case, digital technology as a set of tools has a twofold responsibility. It provides for the sharing of this information and thus potentially exacerbates negative perceptions, but it also offers concrete solutions to refugees and host countries for creating a more inclusive society.

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« Plusieurs tsunamis sociétaux sont à l’horizon, et [...] notre survie dépendra de notre capacité à faire comme le crapaud fou, qui ne suit pas la masse, fait un pas de côté, prend des routes différentes que la majorité de ses congénères [...] Faire crapaud fou, c’est un état d’esprit, une attitude, une posture, un grain de folie, une curiosité et une ferme résolution à ne pas suivre la masse aveuglément. »

This paper examines what is the current situation of the linkage between health, biodiversity
and sustainable development, and what are the challenges that need to be undertaken by the
world at the Rio+20 meeting and after. The greatest challenge of this event was to raise
awareness about the imperative of sustainability in development, in areas such as jobs, energy,
sustainable cities, food security and sustainable agriculture, water, oceans and disaster
readiness. It was a… Voir plus

This paper examines what is the current situation of the linkage between health, biodiversity
and sustainable development, and what are the challenges that need to be undertaken by the
world at the Rio+20 meeting and after. The greatest challenge of this event was to raise
awareness about the imperative of sustainability in development, in areas such as jobs, energy,
sustainable cities, food security and sustainable agriculture, water, oceans and disaster
readiness. It was a chance to move away from business-as-usual and to act to end poverty,
address environmental destruction and build a bridge to the future, in “the future that we want”. Voir moins

This paper aims to analyze the way the European Union deals with biodiversity’s issue, in the frame of the theory of natural capitalism. Natural capitalism aims to value ecosystem services and consider them as the capital we own. This capital has a value, which is not always considered for what it is worth. Ecosystem services are today evaluated in terms of direct benefits they provide, and their true value needs to be assessed beyond these considerations. This article aims to focus on how the… Voir plus

This paper aims to analyze the way the European Union deals with biodiversity’s issue, in the frame of the theory of natural capitalism. Natural capitalism aims to value ecosystem services and consider them as the capital we own. This capital has a value, which is not always considered for what it is worth. Ecosystem services are today evaluated in terms of direct benefits they provide, and their true value needs to be assessed beyond these considerations. This article aims to focus on how the European Union is learning, little by little, to consider ecosystem services under another scope, the scope of natural capitalism, which is, more than a tool, a new perspective. Voir moins