We cannot wait until tomorrow to reduce our blows to the environment. Their effects are worsening by the day and have been doing so for too long. This is the crucial challenge addressed in the 5th issue of Cogito, devoted to the research and initiatives of a group of Sciences Po researchers thinking together about this question. This issue also presents research on economic and political democracy, public action, international trade, the political dimensions of the law, and the devastation in Yemen. You will also meet two recent PhD graduates awarded for their theses. Finally, you will learn how an innovative research project is formed.

Summary

Focus: Thinking together the environment

• Introduction: A collective to rethink the environment
• Environmental policymaking: the case of China by Richard Balme, CEE
• Consume less, consume better:what can consumers do? by Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, CSO
• Conservative cities: a 3rd way between “business as usual” and decline? by Charlotte Halpern, CEE
• Fault lines: earthquakes and historical change by Giacomo Parrinello, Center for History
• Pesticides and human health: between toxicology and epidemiology by Jean-Noël Jouzel, CSO
• Thinking together to make our planet great again by Bernard Reber, CEVIPOF

In Folio: Recent publications

• When the study of individual behaviors shapes public decision-making by a team of  six researchers at CSO
• Making Parliament the beating heart of democracy  Olivier Rozenberg’s (CEE) interview
• When Pierre Mauroy rigorously resisted ‘neo-liberalism’ (1981-1984) by Mathieu Fulla, Center for History
• Yemen, terra incognita , Laurent Bonnefoy’s (CERI) interview
• The politics of symbols: the French government’s response to the 2015 terrorist attacks, by Laurie Boussaguet and Florence Faucher, CEE
• You better move on!  The expatriation of young Italians by Carlo Barone, Ettore Recchi & al, OSC
• Distributing trade maps:the gravity equation by Thomas Chaney, Department of Economics
• What civil and administrative law have in common, Conversation with Christophe Jamin and Fabrice Melleray, Law of School
• Digital readings of the Bible by Jean-Philippe Cointet, médialab & alii

Kick-off: new contracts

• Labor regulations under stress:What are the conflicts in professional relationships in France? by Jérôme Pélisse, CSO
• Citizen representations of regional democracy by Sylvain Brouard, CEVIPOF

Rising stars: young researchers

• Michel Rocard: from attraction to criticism of the media by Pierre-Emmanuel Guigo, Doctoral School, Center for History
• Arming France: national independence or international cooperation? by  par Samuel B.H. Faure, Doctoral School, CERI

Data

• The history of international trade in data, Conversation with Béatrice Dédinger, Center for history and Paul Girard, médialab