Thesis

Ecodevelopment values - Ecological footprint and biodiversity value

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phd student's name
LOIRET Richard
phd student's email
richardloiret@free.fr
thesis director
O’CONNOR Martin
thesis director address
REEDS-UVSQ 15 Bergerie Nationale Bâtiment Aile Sud 78120 Rambouillet
thesis director email
Martin.O-Connor@reeds.uvsq.fr
background and objectives

With biocapacity, the ecological footprint of the Global Footprint Network (GFN) is unable to measure biodiversity and give a value of ecosystem services. Therefore, it can not incorporate the value of natural areas and spaces of the lithosphere and hydrosphere in its biocapacity calculations. Our goal is to find a way of estimating the biological diversity, to include it in the calculation of biocapacity. And so to formulate a new Ecological footprint (an ecological balance sheet between Active (Assets) and Passive (environmental pressures)) consistent with international ecological account standards (SEEA), which would give an account of biodiversity and would take into account all countries and planet areas and/or spaces.

approach
  • Systemic approach
  • Thermodynamics of living
  • Thermodynamics of dissipative structures
  • Shannon information theory 
  • Production index of negative entropy and distance to thermodynamic equilibrium
  • Free energy and exergy
  • Redox ecosystem functions
  • Stoichiometry of an ecosystem
  • Exergy ecosystem production
 
outcome and expectations

A new Ecological Balance (between Active (Assets) and Passive (environmental pressures))  which give an account of biodiversity and take into account all countries and planet areas and/or spaces.

special features

This research include in its reports a global and detailed  analysis of the work of the father of the Biosphere (Wladimir Vernadsky ) on the "two biogeochemical principles" and the production of living in the Biosphere and Ecosphere.

more informations
  1. On the Passive (environnemental pressures) of the ecological footprint (ecological balance) : The REAP methodology (SEI) applied to France and its sub-territories.
  2. Vernadsky's Biosphere: A contradiction of Carnot's principle
  3. On the Active of Ecological footprint (biocapacity) : The index (Ka) of distance to equilibrium and the biodiversity
partners
REEDS PARC NATUREL REGIONAL DES PREALPES D'AZUR ( PNRPA FRANCE) AGENCE REGIONALE POUR L'ENVIRONNEMENT PACA ( ARPE PACA) NORD SUD INTERNATIONAL (NSI)
community
Governance ePLANETEe Blue, RCE members, Domaine National de Rambouillet
location
France
thematic field
Ecological economics
language
English