Samuel CHALLEAT, CNRS UMR GÉODE, France
Johan MILIAN, CNRS UMR LADYSS, France
Dany LAPOSTOLLE, CNRS UMR ThéMA, France
Rémi BÉNOS, CNRS UMR GÉODE, France
Kévin BARRÉ, MNHN UMR CESCO, France
Hélène FOGLAR, Indépendant, France
Charles RONZANI, Indépendant, France
Héloïse PRÉVOST, IRD UMR CESSMA, France
Marion MAISONOBE, CNRS UMR Géographie-Cités, France
Nicolas FARRUGIA, IMT Atlantique, France
Environmental issues such as the degradation of ecosystems, the loss of biodiversity or, more broadly, the degradation of natural resources can be analysed using exclusively disciplinary approaches. However, their complexity and the need to grasp them in their entirety in order to reflect the 'real world' call for an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of environment-society interactions. The conceptualisations and holistic models of socio-ecological systems [1], social-ecological systems [2] and coupled human-environment systems [3] are now being used to study this type of complex problem. The issues raised by the preservation of the nocturnal environment are among these complex problems. They therefore need to be understood within the socio-ecological systems analytical framework.
Our communication will explain how, in order to move away from the disciplinary approaches of urban lighting studies, on the one hand, and light pollution studies, on the other hand, it is now necessary to mobilise a new object that crosses disciplines for their own deepening: the night environment [4]. We will develop more particularly the construction that we make of the night environment as a boundary object allowing us to operate the link between constructivist and positivist research traditions and to structure an interdisciplinary research field capable of grasping the needs for artificial light necessary for the continuity of human uses of space and the needs for darkness necessary for the continuity of non-human uses of space, the continuities and discontinuities of habitats [5].
Mots clés : Nocturnal environment|Light pollution|Darkness preservation|socio-ecological systems|interdisciplinarity
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