This crossroads meeting on territorial transition is co-organized by the Inclusive Sustainability Chair, the UNESCO Chair for a Culture of Economic Peace at Grenoble Ecole de Management, in partnership with the Transition Campus and the Agency for Ecological Transition. It is based on a collaborative research project on the co-benefits of sobriety in approaches to well-being. The event is in French.
The actions of sobriety can be poorly accepted by all actors in territories (businesses, the general public, and local authorities) and are often presented as antagonistic to well-being.
In the field of well-being indicators, there is no literature review to uncover the social and environmental co-benefits of a sober lifestyle.
The Agency for Ecological Transition report (ADEME in French), presented in preview during this meeting, provides such a synthesis of the co-benefits identified in approaches to well-being and allows for addressing key questions such as: Is well-being associated with sobriety? If so, what dimensions of well-being are key to sobriety? What do well-being indicators show about the articulation between social and environmental sustainability?
This session will revolve around a presentation of the ADEME report and a discussion with participants to consider how to progress in terms of knowledge and actions on the synergy between sobriety and well-being.
The whole event is in French.
- Temperance
- Ecological transition
- Energy transition
- Chair
Speakers
Fanny Argoud
Fanny Argoud is a social science researcher and Member of the Transition Campus. She coordinated the project on relational capacity indicators applied to measuring well-being in 10 French ecovillages. Passionate about the multidisciplinary dimension of 21st-century challenges, she is currently pursuing a PhD on renunciation in companies facing planetary limits.
Hélène L’Huillier
Hélène L’Huillier holds a Ph.D. in Economics and works as an independent consultant. She combines research activities with project evaluation focusing on social and environmental impact. She is a member of the Transition Campus. A graduate of ENSAE and Sciences Po Paris, Hélène specializes in public policy evaluation, social impact assessment, and the development of alternative indicators for measuring well-being.
Fiona Ottaviani
Fiona Ottaviani holds a Ph.D. in Economics and is an Associate Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management, co-holder of the Territories in Transition Chair, and research coordinator of the Economic Peace Chair. Her research focuses primarily on evaluation, well-being indicators, and sustainability. She has contributed to action research on territorial sustainable well-being indicators (IBEST) in Grenoble and the Isère department, to the establishment of two international forums on well-being, and to the creation, with six partners, of the resource center Cap bien vivre (https://capbienvivre.org/).
