Léa SEBASTIEN

Associate Professor

Contact details

Address
Maison de la Recherche, Jean Jaurès University 5, Allées A. Machado – 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 1
Email
lea.sebastien@univ-tlse2.fr
Personal Website
https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=4VfpNUkAAAAJ&hl=fr

Research topics

Indicators :

  • Political use of sustainable development indicators in Europe
  • Specificities of composite indicators
  • Gap between the supply and demand for indicators
  • Sustainable development and well‑being
  • Failure of alternative indicators to GDP

Governance :

  • Support for resolving environmental conflicts
  • NIMBY
  • Mediation
  • Territorial negotiation
  • Ecological debt
  • Local consultation
  • Socio‑centred sustainable development
  • « Enlightened resistance »
  • ​​​​​​​Failure of governance
     

Jeux d’acteurs :

  • Interactions between social relations and relations to nature
  • Absent or weak actors
  • Interactions between practices, representations and knowledge
  • ​​​​​​​Potential for cooperation, conflict, domination, cohabitation

Place attachment :

  • Territorial identity
  • Heritagization
  • Socio‑spatial approach

Objects / field sites :

  • Territories resisting development projects
    Private forest of Sologne
  • Water on Kilimanjaro
  • Wetland in the Barthes de l’Adour
  • Gravel pits in the Forez plain
  • Composite indicators within European institutions
  • Ecological debt of a multinational company in Belgium

Publications extraites de HAL affiliées à Geode : Géographie de l'environnement

Additional information

Léa Sébastien has been a lecturer‑researcher at the University of Toulouse II, GEODE Laboratory since October 2010. Her research focuses on three main themes:
  • planning conflicts,
  • place attachment,
  • the political use of sustainable development indicators.
She is the author of numerous scientific publications on these topics, including two books. One dealing with resistance movements to large‑scale projects, entitled “Résister aux grands projets inutiles et imposés”, Textuel Publishers, 2018. The other, focusing on the potential for sustainable management in private forests, entitled “Forêt cherche propriétaire pour relation durable”, ECOFOR Publishers, 2002.

After studying at McGill University in Canada, she completed a PhD at the École des Mines in 2006 on the governance of natural resources, during which she developed a model for supporting environmental negotiation entitled the “4‑Dimensional Actor”.
  • In terms of research, Léa Sébastien completed her postdoctoral fellowship at IFREMER on stakeholder dynamics in wetlands. She then worked as a senior researcher at the University of Brussels, where she was responsible for FP7 European projects (POINT on alternative indicators; CEECEC on environmental conflicts).
  • In terms of teaching, Léa Sébastien teaches courses at Toulouse II from the first year of undergraduate studies to the second year of the Master’s programme on topics related to human geography (sustainable development, governance, environmental public policies, natural resource management).