The main characteristics of urban socio-ecological trajectories: Paris (France) from the 18th to the 20th century

Sabine Barles

Ecological Economics, 2015, vol. 118, issue C, 177-185

Abstract: For some years now, interactions between societies and the biosphere have been the subject of socio-ecological studies (SESs), which analyse socio-ecological regimes, trajectories and transitions. This article follows the approach, and seeks to contribute to the analysis of socio-ecological urban trajectories since the Industrial Revolution. It draws on some key notions which are tested and applied to Paris. The urban socio-ecological regime of the industrial era has three major characteristics: i) the near-total externalisation of a more intensive urban metabolism, associated with the breakup of supply areas and the deepening, urban footprint on the environment; ii) the importance of infrastructure to this metabolism, which fits into a process of generalised networking led by engineers and leads to urban technical inter-dependencies; and iii) the urbanisation of landscapes associated with the proliferation of extra-territorial urban influences, despite the loss of certain skills available to the French capital.

Keywords: Urban socio-ecological trajectory; Socio-ecological regime; Urban metabolism; Environmental imprint; Urban extraterritoriality; Territorial ecology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.07.027

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