Thesis
French
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/23412>
Abstract
This study offers a reading of the representations of ecosystem planning offered by members of the Quebec Forest Social System (scientists, governments, activists, indigenous people). Two groups were identified from around 20 respondents: innovators and receivers. Innovators are involved in the implementation of ecosystem-based planning and are at the same time more closely linked to the political decision-making process. For them, the challenges facing ecosystem planning are ecological and its implementation is necessary to protect biodiversity. Rather, beneficiaries, who are not involved in implementation, see ecosystem-based planning as one tool among others to integrate the concept of sustainable development in forestry. For the latter, ecosystem-based planning is not limited to the environmental sphere of sustainable development and must rather be integrated into the various environmental, social and economic challenges facing forest management.