My name is Yves MEINARD. I am a CNRS researcher in environmental decision analysis. I am a member of the Centre Gilles Gaston Granger (UMR 7304, Aix-Marseille University, 13621 AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France)

yves.meinard@lamsade.dauphine.fr

Biological invasions, Associate Editor

BIOM, Editorial Committee

Botanique, Editorial Committee

http://gereco-environnement.fr/

What is environmental decision analysis?

Environmental decision analysis is a research domain devoted to analyse how decisions (mostly collective ones) are made on environmental issues at various levels, from concrete management actions in the field to political decisions at national or international scales on environmental strategies or legislations. It is an action-oriented endeavour, since it does not conceive of analysing decisions as an end in itself, but rather as a means to improve decision-making by supporting it. Environmental decision analysis tackles problems as they arise in real life, and uses for that purpose all the relevant theoretical and practical resources. It is therefore highly interdisciplinary: beyond decision analysis, it involves insights from ecology, geology, economics, geography, philosophy…

My research activities and interests

I am involved in numerous aspects of environmental decision analysis, and I would say I am interested in almost the entire field! But even in such a highly interdisciplinary field, one has to have one’s specialities of sorts. As a biologist, I am mostly specialized in botany and plant ecology, with an important field expertise in habitat conservation status assessment. Geomorphology also plays an important role in the landscape-scale approaches to ecological functioning that I aim to develop. My other speciality is political and economic philosophy, with a main focus on environmental economic methods conceived as tools to support environmental decision-making. This part of my work involves a rather large number of subfields of philosophy (analytic philosophy of language and action, hermeneutic philosophy, political philosophy mainly in Rawlsian and Habermasian approaches) and economics (environmental valuation methods, welfare economics, social choice theory, contract theory, Ostromian approaches to institutional economics).

Publications

My publications are just as diverse as my disciplinary interest…

• Osorio, A., Schmitt, L., Badariotti, D., Meinard, Y. 2023. Améliorer la gestion des espaces naturels par la participation. Une analyse du guide français pour l'élaboration des plans de gestion. VertiGo. A paraître.

• Meinard, Y. 2023. De la faculté de juger les zones humides. Développement Durable et Territoires. A paraître.

• Meinard, Y., Thébaud, G., Roux, C. 2022. Végétations et successions végétales dans les monts du Devès (Haute-Loire, France) : esquisse phytosociologique et symphytosociologique d’un secteur volcanique méconnu. BIOM vol. 3, n°1.

• Meinard, Y., Mangos, A. 2022. Un cadre empiriste pour l'analyse des savoirs/pouvoirs - Application à trois dynamiques clés des sciences et politiques de la biodiversité. Developpement Durable et Territoires vol. 13, n°1.

• Meinard, Y., Maris, V., Dereniowska, M., Georges, J.-Y. 2022. A heuristic for innovative invasive species management actions and strategies. Ecology & Society. In press. 

• Jarić, I.,  Correia, R.A., Bonaiuto, M., Brook, B.W., Courchamp, F., Firth, J.A., Gaston, K.J., Heger, T., Jeschke, J.M., Ladle, R.J., Meinard, Y., Roberts, D.L., Sherren, K., Soga, M., Soriano-Redondo, A., Veríssimo, D., Roll, U. 2022. Transience of public attention in conservation science. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. In press. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2598 

• Osorio, A., Schmitt, L., Badariotti, D., Meinard, Y. 2022. Mise en oeuvre d'un processus de "participation contre-argumentative" dans la gestion et la restauration des milieux fluviaux : retour d'expérience dans une Réserve Naturelle Nationale rhénane. Géocarrefour 96/2.

• Meinard, Y., Pluchinotta, I. 2022. C-K E/I. A pragmatic framework for policy innovation. EURO Journal on Decision Processes. In press.

• Meinard, Y. 2022. The Foucauldian approach to conservation. Pitfalls and genuine promises. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. In press.

• Jarić, I., Roll, U., Bonaiuto, M., Brook, B.W., Courchamp, F., Firth, J.A., Gaston, K.J., Heger, T., Jeschke, J.M., Ladle, R.J., Meinard, Y., Roberts, D.L., Sherren, K., Soga, M., Soriano-Redondo, A., Veríssimo, D., Correia, R.A. 2022. Societal extinction of species. In Press. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 

• Meinard, Y., Tsoukias, A. 2022. What is legitimate decision support? In Mousseau V.,  Greco S., Stefanowski J., Zopounidis, K. Intelligent Decision Support Systems - Combining Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence. Springer.

• Meinard, Y., Cailloux, O.  2021. Deliberation in valuation and decision making: a conceptual clarification. In press. Oeconomia.

• Meinard, Y. 2021. Penser la biodiversité. Hermann.

• Glatron, S., Hector, A., Meinard, Y., Philippot, V., Georges, J.-Y. 2021. Réinterroger ce qu'est la nature en ville avec les tortues exotiques des parcs publics de Strasbourg. In Salomon Cavin J., Granjou, C. Quand l'écologie s'urbanise. UGA Editions.

• Meinard, Y., Dereniowska, M. 2021. The unknownness of biodiversity: its value and ethical significance. In press. Biological Conservation.

• Mangos, A., Rouchier, J., Meinard, Y. 2021. Analyzing constraints to improve conservation decision making. A theroetical framework and its application to the Northern Vosges, France. In press. Environmental Conservation.

• Meinard, Y., Barreteau, O., Boschet, C., Daniell, K.A., Ferrand, N., Girard, S., Guillaume, J.H.A., Hassenforder, E., Lord, M., Merad, M., Nabavi, E., Petitjean, C., Pluchinotta, I., Rouchier, R., Tsoukias, A., Zarate, P. 2020. What is policy analytics? An exploration of 5 years of environmental management applications. In press. Environmental Management.

• Vaissière, A.-C., Meinard, Y. 2020. An integrated policy framework to accommodate both the analytical and the normative aspects of biodiversity in ecological compensation. In press. Biological Conservation.

• Buchs, A., Hassenforder, E., Meinard, Y. 2020. The deliberation-compromise spectrum in conservation. In press. Conservation Biology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13654

• Richard, A., Mayag, B., Talbot, F., Tsoukias, A., Meinard, Y. 2020. What does it mean to provide decision support to a responsible, competent expert? The case of diagnostic decision support systems. In press. EURO Journal of Decision Processes.

• Jaric, I., Bellard, C., Courchamp, F., Kalinkat, G., Meinard, Y., Roberts, D.L., Correia, R.A. 2020. Societal attention toward extinction threats: A comparison between climate change and biological invasions. In press. Scientific Reports.

• Meinard, Y. 2020. Rationalizing environmental decision making through economic valuation. In press. Humanistyka i Przyrodoznawstwo

• Cuthbert, R.N., Bacher, S., Blackburn, T.M., Briski, E., Diagne, C., Dick, J.T.A., Essl, F., Haubrock, P.J., Latombe, G., Lenzner, B., Meinard, Y., Pauchard, A., Pyšek, P., Ricciardi, A., Richardson, D.M., Russell, J.C., Simberloff, D., Courchamp, F. 2020. Invasion costs, impacts and human agency: response to Sagoff 2019. In press. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13592

• Meinard, Y., Cailloux, O. 2020. On justifying the norms underlying decision support. European Journal of Operational Research 285(3): 1002-1010.

• Cailloux, O., Meinard, Y. 2020. A formal framework for deliberated judgment. Theory & Decision 88:269-295. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-019-09722-7

• Schmitt, L., Beiseil, J.-N., Preusser, F., De Jong, C., Wantzen, K.M., Chardon, V., Staentzel, C., Eschbach, D., Damm, C., Rixhon, G., Salomon, F., Glaser, R., Himmelsbach, I., Meinard, Y., Dumont, S., Hardion, L., Houssier, J., Rambeau, C., Chapkanski, S., Brachane, S. 2019. Sustainable management of the Upper Rhine River and its alluvial plain: Lessons from interdisciplinary research in France and Germany. In Hamman, P., Vuilleumier, S. Sustainability Research in the Upper Rhine Region, p. 221-226. Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg.

• Jarić, I., Courchamp, F., Correia, R.A., Crowley, S.L., Essl, F., Fischer, A., González-Moreno, P., Kalinkat, G., Lambin, X., Lenzner, B., Meinard, Y., Mill, A., Musseau, C., Novoa, A., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., Pyšková, K., Robertson, P., von Schmalensee, M., Shackleton, R.T., Stefansson, R.A., Štajerová, K., Veríssimo, D., Jeschke, J.M. 2020. The role of species charisma in biological invasions. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18(6): 345-353.

• Philippot, V., Hector, A., Meinard, Y., Georges, J.-Y. 2019. Des tortues exotiques en ville : évaluation, perceptions et propositions de gestion à Strasbourg, France. Vertigo 19(2)

• Jaric, I., Quétier, F., Meinard, Y. 2019. Procrustean beds and empty boxes: on the magic of creating environmental data. Biological Conservation 237: 248-252.

• Devictor, V., Meinard, Y. 2019. Empowering biodiversity knowledge. Conservation Biology 34(2): 527-529.

• Meinard, Y., Rouchier, J. 2019. L’ « argument économique » dans l’aide à la décision en politique environnementale et son évanescence : réflexions à partir du cas des « boues rouges » de Gardanne. Natures Sciences Sociétés 27: 399-409.

• Meinard, Y., Thébaud, G. 2019. L'identification syntaxonomique dans les démarches de gestion et/ou restauration d'espaces naturels en France: pour ou contre ? Naturae 2019(6): 165-173. http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/fr/periodiques/naturae/2019/6

• Meinard, Y., Coq, S., Schmid, B. 2019. The vagueness of "biodiversity" and its implications in practice. In : Casetta, E., Marques da Silva, J., Vecchi, D. From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity. Conceptual and Practical Challenges, p. 353-374. Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030109905

• Choulak, M., Marage, D., Gisbert, M., Paris, M., Meinard, Y. 2019. A meta-decision-analysis approach to structure operational and legitimate environmental policies - With an application to wetland prioritization. Science of the Total Environment 655: 384-394. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.202

• Meinard, Y., Tsoukias, A. 2019. On the rationality of decision aiding processes. European Journal of Operational Research 273(3): 1074-1084. doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.09.009

• Touret, R., Meinard, Y., Petit, J.-C., Tsoukias, A. 2019. Cartographie descriptive du système national français du financement de la recherche sur projet en vue de son évaluation. Innovations 59: 205-241.

• Meinard, Y. 2018. Prioriser les zones humides pour un gestionnaire : réflexions méthodologiques à partie de l'exemple du haut Livradois. Actes du XXe Séminaire International Gestion et conservation de la biodiversité, Ordino (Andorre). Botanique 4 : 65-73.

• Meinard, Y., Dereniowska, M. 2018. Intégrer le caractère inconnu de la biodiversité dans les pratiques de gestion : motivation éthique et faisabilité pratique. Actes du XXe Séminaire International Gestion et conservation de la biodiversité, Ordino (Andorre). Botanique 4 : 75-80.

• Jaric, I., Correia, R.A., Roberts, D.L., Gessner, J., Meinard, Y., Courchamp, F. 2019. On the overlap between scientific and societal taxonomic attentions -- insights for conservation. Science of the Total Environment 648: 772-778

• Meinard, Y., Gharbi, J.-S. 2018. Utility as economic meaning. Revue d'Economie Politique 128(2): 225-250.

• Courchamp, F., Jaric, I., Albert, C., Meinard, Y., Ripple, W.J., Chapron, G. 2018. The paradoxical extinction of the most charismatic animals. PLoS Biol 16(4): e2003997. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003997

• Meinard, Y. 2017. Regard épistémologique sur l'idée d'homogénéité écologique d'un relevé phytosociologique. Botanique 3: 89-93.

• Meinard, Y. 2017. What is a legitimate conservation policy? Biological Conservation 2013: 115-123.

• Meinard, Y. Dehais, C., Jeanmougin, M. 2017. Peut-on conserver ce qu'on a perdu les moyens de connaître ? La politique Européenne de conservation des habitats et ses paradoxes. Botanique 2 (73-76).

• Jeanmougin, M., Dehais, C., Meinard, Y. 2017. Mismatch between habitat science and habitat directive--Lessons from the French (counter)example. Conservation Letters 10: 634–644.

• Meinard, Y., Remy, A., Schmid, B. 2017. Measuring impartial preference for biodiversity. Ecological Economics 132 (45-54).

• Meinard, Y. 2017. Intérêts et limites de l'expérience de la biodiversité. In: Fleury, C., Prévot, A.-C. Expériences de la nature, pp. 49-60. Editions du CNRS.

• Meinard, Y. 2017. La biodiversité comme thème de philosophie économique. In: Campagnolo, G. & Gharbi, J.-S., pp. 319-346. Philosophie économique. Matériologiques, collection E-conomiques.

• Meinard, Y., Dereniovska, M. Gharbi, J.-S. 2016. The ethical stakes in monetary valuation for conservation purposes. Biological Conservation 199: 67-74.

• Gharbi, J.-S., Meinard, Y. 2015. On the meaning of non-welfarism in Kolm’s ELIE model of income redistribution. Journal of Economic Methodology 22(3): 335-353.

• Meinard, Y., Mestrallet, J. 2014. La signification du statut de bien public de la biodiversité. In : Casetta, E., Delord, J., Eds. La biodiversité en question. Enjeux philosophiques et scientifiques. Éditions matériologiques.

• Meinard, Y. & Quétier, F. 2014. Experiencing biodiversity as a bridge over the science -society communication gap. Conservation Biology 28(3): 705-12.

• Meinard, Y., Coq, S., Schmid, B. 2014. A constructivist approach towards a general definition of biodiversity in Ethics, Policy and Environment 17(1): 88-104.

• Meinard, Y. 2014. La place des valeurs dans l’étude des systèmes d’interaction hommes / milieux naturels.  In: Chenorkian, R., Robert, S. Eds. Les interactions hommes/milieux. QUAE, collection « Indisciplines ».

• Meinard, Y. 2013. Du dépassement du welfarisme par le procéduralisme - une analyse conceptuelle. Revue de Philosophie Economique 14(2): 67-92.

• Meinard, Y., Stenou, B., & Peraldi, A. 2013. Funeste complément à la flore de Corse : présence de Reynoutria japonica Houtt., 1977 dans la vallée du Taravo. Bulletin de la Société Botanique du Centre-Ouest – Nouvelle Série – Tome 44.

• Defive, E., Meinard, Y., Courrioux, G., Ledru, P., Poiraud, A., Prognon, C., Bertin, C., Raynal, J.P. 2013. Notice explicative, Carte géologique de France (1/50 000), feuille Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille (816). BRGM.

• Meinard, Y. 2012. La biodiversité, une notion-clef du rapport cognitif à la réalité. In: Alpe, Y., Girault, Y. Eds. Actes du colloque éducation au développement durable et à la biodiversité (Publications de l'Université du Québec, Montréal).

• Meinard, Y., Grill, P. 2011. The economic valuation of biodiversity as an abstract good. Ecological Economics 70: 1707-1714.

• Meinard, Y. 2011. L’expérience de la biodiversité – Philosophie et économie du rapport à l’environnement (Hermann).

• L’autorité démocratique par David Estlund – traduit de l'anglais (américain) par Meinard, Y. 2011. (Hermann, collection « l’avocat du diable »).

• Meinard, Y. 2011. La biodiversité, un concept transdisciplinaire.  In : Debru, C. Ed. La transdisciplinarité (Hermann, collection « vision des sciences »).

• Les droits démocratiques par Corey Brettschneider – traduit de l'anglais (américain) par Meinard, Y. 2009. (Hermann, collection « l’avocat du diable »).

• Gault, A., Meinard, Y., Courchamp, F. 2008. Consumers’ preferences for rarity drives sturgeons to extinction. Conservation Letters 1: 199–207.

• Courchamp, F., Angulo, E., Rivalan, P., Hall, R.J., Signoret, L., Meinard, Y. 2006. Rarity value and species extinction: The Anthropogenic Allee Effect. PLoS Biology 4: e415

Conferences

• Meinard, Y. (speaker), Gisbert, M., Paris, M., Choulak, M., Marage, D. Rethinking the role of researchers to support environmental policies -- The Meta-Decision-Analysis approach and its application to wetland prioritization in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Symposium of the French Limnology Association, Strasbourg. November 22-23, 2018.

• Gharbi, J.-S., Meinard, Y. (co-speaker). Welfarism and ethical neutrality. A World to Win International Conference on Philosophy and Economics. Rotterdam. March 20-24, 2017.

• Cailloux, O., Meinard, Y. (speaker). A formal framework for deliberated judgment. A World to Win International Conference on Philosophy and Economics. Rotterdam. March 20-24, 2017.

• Jeanmougin, M. (speaker), Dehais, C., Meinard, Y. Mismatch between habitat science and habitat directive – lessons from the French (counter)example. First Israeli Conference for Conservation Science. BGU. April 3-4, 2016.

• Meinard, Y. (speaker), Jeanmougin, M., Dehais, C. Evaluating the European Habitat Conservation Policy. International Conference on Ecological Sciences. Sfécology 2016. Marseille. October 24-28, 2016.

• Gharbi, J.-S., Meinard, Y. (speaker). Utility as economic meaning. 3rd International Conference in Economic Philosophy. Aix-en-Provence. June 15-16, 2016.

• Meinard, Y. (speaker), Jeanmougin, M., Dehais, C. Avons-nous la connaissance fonctionnelle des syntaxons nécessaire à la mise en œuvre de la Directive Habitats. ECOVEG 12. Brest. March 29-31 2016.

Consulting

Before integrating the CNRS, with three other consultants I founded and co-directed a consultancy in integrated environmental management : GERECO (www.gereco-environnement.fr). This gave me ample opportunities to work in the field and acquire an informed understanding of the real-life problems that environmental decision-makers face. I know have very active collaborations with GERECO.

Natural areas and watershed management schemes

• Multi-criteria environmental diagnosis and elaboration of a freshwater ecosystems management scheme for the Carramy-Issole and lower Argens watersheds. Var, France (2018).

• Multi-criteria environmental diagnosis and elaboration of a freshwater ecosystems management scheme for the Annaz, Divonne and Oudar watersheds. Ain, France (2018).

• Botanical and ecological expertise of three wetlands associated with the Joyeuse river. Drôme, France (2018).

• Botanical and ecological expertise of the Châtillon pond. Ille-et-Vilaine, France (2017).

• Botanical and ecological expertise of the Trézence valley. Charente-Maritime, France (2017).

• Botanical and ecological expertise of the Landemarais peatland. Ille-et-Vilaine, France (2016).

• Multi-criteria environmental diagnosis and elaboration of a freshwater ecosystems management scheme for the Centre Médoc watershed. Gironde, France (2015).

• Multi-criteria environmental diagnosis and elaboration of a freshwater ecosystems management scheme for the Véore watershed. Drôme, France (2015).

• Botanical and ecological expertise of the Ulèzes wetland. Drôme, France (2015).

• Multi-criteria environmental diagnosis and elaboration of a freshwater ecosystems management scheme for the Lower Verdon watershed. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Var, France (2013).

• Multi-criteria environmental diagnosis and elaboration of a freshwater ecosystems management scheme for the Taravo watershed. Corse-du-Sud, France (2013).

• Botanical and ecological expertise of the Canniccia wetland. Corse-du-Sud, France (2014-2015)

• Botanical and ecological expertise, and elaboration of a management scheme for the Mont Lachens natural site. Var, France (2014-2015)

• Habitat cartography and conservation status assessment in the Lower Taravo Special Area of Conservation (Natura 2000). Corse-du-Sud, France (2015)

• Botanical and ecological expertise, and elaboration of a management scheme for the Bretous woodland. Gironde, France (2013-2014)

• Botanical and ecological expertise, and elaboration of a management scheme for the Gaudriers semi-natural site. Ille-et-Vilaine, France (2013)

• Botanical diagnosis and conservation status assessment of 5 natural sites in the Charente-Maritime Department. Charente-Maritime, France (2013-2014). 

Biodiversity and conservation policy

• Evaluation and redefinition of the sensitive natural zones policy of the Charente-Maritime department. Charente-Maritime, France (2016)

• Evaluation and redefinition of the wetland and freshwater ecosystem conservation policy of the Gironde department. Gironde, France (2015).

  • Evaluation of the biodiversity conservation policy of the Eure department. Eure, France (2015)         

Regional conservation strategy

• Definition of a global wetland conservation strategy for the Taillefer massif. Isère, France (2018)

• Wetland prioritization and definition of a global wetland conservation strategy in the upper Dore area. Puy-de-Dôme, France (2018)

• Wetland prioritization and definition of a global wetland conservation strategy in the Alpe-d'Huez ski area. Isère, France (2016)

• Elaboration of the Natura 2000 management strategy for the “Ried” Special Protection Area. Alsace, France (2015).

• Wetland prioritization and definition of a global wetland conservation strategy in the Furan watershed. Loire, France (2015).

• Wetland prioritization and definition of a global wetland conservation strategy in the Joyeuse, Chalon, Savasse watersheds. Drôme, France (2014-2015)

Education and training