Posted online on July 8, 2026
Calenda Announcement 1,419,589 (excerpts)
Quantifying ecology is established as a prerequisite for evaluating social and ecological transition policies. The seminar sessions offered by this research project provide an opportunity to bring together different perspectives—from the social sciences of quantification to the sociology of public environmental policy and transitions—in order to take the quantification of ecological qualities seriously, based on these interdisciplinary analyses.
The EQAM Chair (Economics of Quality and Its Measures), with the support of the CIST (International and Interdisciplinary College of Territorial Sciences), is organizing a series of seminars on the theme: “Quantifying Ecology. The Epistemological Challenges of Assessing Territorial Ecological Transition.”
Building on the first year of the “Quantifying Ecology” seminar series, the 2026–2027 seminar will examine the socio-institutional conditions and practices involved in developing quantification frameworks: numbers, indicators, assessment tools, and ecological accounting frameworks.
While there is a trend toward the “greening” of measurement tools, we still need to explore their specific characteristics and examine the socio-institutional and socio-political conditions through which these ecological information systems can provide insight into the ecological quality of territories. Focused on environmental and ecological issues, the seminar lies at the intersection of the social sciences of quantification, the social history of statistics, the political economy of indicators, and the evaluation of the transition and its critiques.
The four seminar sessions will take place via videoconference between 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.
