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Anastasia Wolff

  • Fonction: IPEF, doctorante
  • Mission: Etude du potentiel de contribution de la RSE à la protection/valorisation de la biodiversité
  • Membre depuis le : 26/01/2015
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Responsabilité sociétale : quel potentiel de contribution à la protection et la valorisation de la biodiversité ?

My PhD project questions the capacity of businesses to engage in the conservation of biodiversity as part of their corporate social responsibility. It is thus a problem-focused interdisciplinary environmental study.

The managment and governance of biodiversity and ecosystem services are challenging: (i) there is a high level of complexity and uncertainty that is intrinsic to the topic, (ii) multiple levels of governance are at play (and interact with multiple ecological scales), (iii) biodiversity is typically a transversal subject (linked to climate change, food systems, water quality and quantity, …), and (iv) the institutionalization of the ecosystem services paradigm and its translation into institutional initiatives has been evolving a lot for the past years. The recent affirmation of the private sector on the international stage (CBD, COP 10 and 12 especially) is quite clearly shifting the power relationships, strengthening the role of businesses.

This project is articulated through four main axes: (i) the analysis of the links between business activities and biodiversity: how are biodiversity issues concretely translated from a business point of view? how are business initiatives structured? (ii) an epistemologic study of the various underlying concepts which support CSR initiatives related to biodiversity, in order to question their relevance and examine which controversies they bring out (regarding legitimacy and governance aspects, as well as the interaction between scientific knowledge, valuation tools, and privatization of ecosystem services), (iii) an analysis of the dynamics and tensions in the interplay of actors at different scales (I am currently working at the national scale through the study of a voluntary instrument integrated to the french national strategy for biodiversity derived from the CBD Strategic Plan 2011-2020), and (iv) a projection of the potential contribution of CSR to biodiversity conservation and what it means in terms of public policy.

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