Pôle bioalimentaire Webinar – Visions and assessment of ecological transition in food systems: the case of Montreal
Cette analyse systémique est particulièrement pertinente pour informer sur la transition écologique du système alimentaire montréalais.
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Summary:
The Évaluation en commun approach was born of a research partnership with the Ville de Montréal, the Conseil de politique alimentaire du système alimentaire montréalais and some thirty organizations involved in food security and sustainability. It offers a range of tools and aims to develop an evaluation culture within organizations. In addition, Evaluation en commun offers an online evaluation platform that brings together evaluation results to produce an annual dashboard of the impacts and changes of evaluated projects. This systemic analysis is particularly relevant for informing the ecological transition of Montreal’s food system. In this presentation, speakers will use research on social innovations and sustainable transitions to identify transformative processes revealed by Evaluation en commun’s 2023 campaign. While the conclusions can only be exploratory and nuanced, the results nevertheless indicate that certain transformative processes (such as the institutionalization and densification of social relations) are at work within the Montreal food system, leading to reflection on its possible ecological transition trajectories.
- René Audet
René Audet is an environmental sociologist, Professor in the Department of Strategy, Social and Environmental Responsibility at UQAM’s School of Management and holder of the UQAM Research Chair on Ecological Transition. His research focuses on the discourse of ecological transition in Quebec and around the world, as well as on the practices and institutional forms that claim to be part of this transition. He is also a specialist in environmental thought and the epistemology of environmental sciences. - Éliane Brisebois
Éliane Brisebois is a research officer and coordinator of the Ecological Transition Research Chair at UQAM. Since 2015, as part of several research projects at UQAM and mandates as a consultant, she has been working on food systems issues, particularly the ecological transition of these systems, food waste, food security, access to healthy food and the evaluation of alternative food initiatives.
