(Ré)concilier éclairage urbain et environnement nocturne : les enjeux d’une controverse sociotechnique

Challéat, Samuel; Lapostolle, Dany

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“…In concrete terms, the cartographic definition of the ecological network must integrate value systems and representations linked to territories' historical, social, economic, political, and symbolic dimensions (Mascia et al 2003, Blicharska et al 2016. Social sciences tools and methodologies make it possible to probe this territorial thickness by analyzing connections between the spaces and actors involved in the protection of the darkness and biodiversity couple (Challéat and Lapostolle 2014). By examining, as well, the mediation logics at work in lighting policies local redefinitions (Lapostolle et al 2015, Lapostolle andChalléat 2021), the integration of biodiversity issues into public controversies and debates, social, economic, and scientific issues related to the protection of nocturnal spaces and species, or pioneering practices that foreshadow new forms of organizing nocturnal socio-ecosystems.…”

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Grasping darkness: the dark ecological network as a social-ecological framework to limit the impacts of light pollution on biodiversity

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Barré²,

Laforge³

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Artificial light at night (ALAN) is nowadays recognized as a major anthropogenic pressure on the environment on a global scale and as such is called light pollution. Through its attractive or deterrent effects, and its disruption of the biological clock for many animal and plant taxa, ALAN is increasingly recognized as a major threat to global biodiversity, which ultimately alters the amount, the quality, and the connectivity of available habitats for taxa. Biodiversity conservation tools should, therefore, include ALAN spatial and temporal effects. The ecological network, i.e., the physical and functional combination of natural elements that promote habitat connectivity, provides a valuable framework for that purpose. Understood as a social-ecological framework, it offers the opportunity to take into account the multiple uses of nocturnal spaces and times, by humans and nonhumans alike. Here we present the concept of "dark ecological network." We show this concept is able to grasp the effects of ALAN in terms of habitat disturbances and integrates temporal dimensions of ecological processes into biodiversity conservation planning. Moreover, it is also intended to trivialize the practices of darkness protection by turning them into the ordinary practices of land use planning. From an operational point of view, the challenge is to translate the levers for reducing ALAN-induced effects into a political method for its "territorialization." To achieve this objective, we propose a course of action that consists of building an interdisciplinary repertoire of contextualized knowledge (e.g., impacts on wildlife, human/lightscape relationship, existing legal tools, etc.), in order to deduce from it a number of practical supports for the governance of the dark ecological network in response to societal and ecological issues.

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Grasping darkness: the dark ecological network as a social-ecological framework to limit the impacts of light pollution on biodiversity

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Barré²,

Laforge³

et al. 2021

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“…By putting the fight against light pollution and the preservation of darkness (Challéat & Lapostolle, 2014) on the agenda, a number of rural areas take part in the global countryside (Woods, 2007). Indeed, they imply interactions between local and world actors, between human and non-human actants, and the circulation of reference standards and good practices so as to bring about a reconfiguration of regional development and planning policies.…”

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Making Darkness a Place-Based Resource: How the Fight against Light Pollution Reconfigures Rural Areas in France

Lapostolle

Challéat

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Light pollution refers to the degradation of darkness through the use of artificial light at night (ALAN) in and around human infrastructures. This pollution is intrinsically related to urbanization and spills out from urban areas to affect both rural and protected areas. Several countries are organizing the fight against light pollution. There, local communities are experimenting with environmental policies designed to protect darkness. The challenge is about preserving biodiversity and fostering the energy transition. In France, a number of pioneering rural areas are experimenting with mechanisms that include this dual implication. Two of them provide the case study for this article. We show how these areas turn darkness into a specific resource. We identify three specification processes. The first obeys an anthropocentric utilitarian rationale and is part of the "economicization" of the environment in the line of shallow ecology. The second follows a rationale of ecocentric conservation and is part of the radical ecologization of the economy, in line with deep ecology. The third is in keeping with an integrated socio-ecosystemic rationale enshrining the interdependence between development, planning, the preservation of biodiversity, and energy savings. Local areas are plagued with specification controversies. These areas become incubation rooms, that is, spaces for resolving these controversies. These are reflected in a transition operator enabling the local area to take a fresh trajectory in terms of development and planning.

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“…10 Depuis 2013, notre analyse compare ce processus dans différents espaces (Challéat & Lapostolle, 2014 ;Lapostolle et al, 2015) 12 Nous avons mis en place ce dispositif dans des territoires qui se saisissent de la REN. Une partie d'entre eux sont des zones de montagne (Bénos et al, 2016).…”

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L’environnement nocturne dans les territoires de montagne français, ressource et opérateur de transition vers la durabilité

Challéat¹,

Lapostolle²,

Milian³

2018

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Fondé en septembre 2013 et coordonné par Samuel Challéat, le Collectif RENOIR (Ressources environnementales nocturnes & territoires) rassemble neuf chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs et acteurs territoriaux issus de divers horizons (Toulouse, Dijon, Paris et Pau) et de différentes disciplines (géographie de l'environnement, aménagement, biologie de la conservation, économie, science politique, sciences de l'information et de la communication, psychologie sociale), ainsi qu'un photographe-vidéaste. Il accompagne par ailleurs plusieurs étudiants dans leur projet professionnel. L'environnement nocturne dans les territoires de montagne français, ressource...

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(Ré)concilier éclairage urbain et environnement nocturne : les enjeux d’une controverse sociotechnique

Cited by 18 publications

References 10 publications

Grasping darkness: the dark ecological network as a social-ecological framework to limit the impacts of light pollution on biodiversity

Grasping darkness: the dark ecological network as a social-ecological framework to limit the impacts of light pollution on biodiversity

Making Darkness a Place-Based Resource: How the Fight against Light Pollution Reconfigures Rural Areas in France

L’environnement nocturne dans les territoires de montagne français, ressource et opérateur de transition vers la durabilité

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