About Ecology in the City: An Attempt of Classification of the Political Trends

Abstract

The transition to an eco-compatible society is analyzed in terms of causes and reasons. At each time, there is a “vision of nature” made up of knowledge of the causes and knowledge of the reasons. There were successively the “geometrical nature”, then the “artificial nature” and today the “sustainable nature”. The transition is long-lasting and complex because we have to pass from “artificial nature” to “sustainable nature”. The approach is applied to the Information Theory (that is to say, the contribution of information technologies to the transition) and the precautionary principle. In conclusion, the topic of political ecology in the cities is evoked.