Jean-François Bissonnette
Biographic Data
| ID | 3671183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-François Bissonnette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-François |
| FAMILY NAME | Bissonnette |
| SIGNATURE | BISSONNETTE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Laval |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3613-6121 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Avoiding an anticipated social-ecological trap in biodiversity conservation on private lands in Quebec province, Canada
During the last decades, global conservation efforts shifted from a mostly top-down process to preserve ecosystems on public lands to diverse governance processes involving stakeholders and conservation on private lands. Following these trends, the Quebec government (Canada) also engaged in biodiversity conservation efforts on private lands to reduce perceived environmental injustice arising from imposed conservation measures. However, citizen in…
Enhancing natural habitats conservation success on private lands by understanding and addressing deficiencies in social capital
Over the last decades, biodiversity conservation in Quebec province, Canada, has evolved from an ecology-centered discipline, mostly focused on ecosystem protection on public lands (e.g., protected areas and reserves), to an interdisciplinary field with increasing participatory efforts deployed to preserve private lands' habitats. Yet, conservation on private lands has experienced mixed results, notably because of limits regarding the creation of…
Intervention levers for increasing social acceptance of conservation measures on private land: A systematic literature review and comprehensive typology
Private lands are increasingly targeted for ecological restoration and conservation initiatives in high-income countries. However, the fragmented nature of private land tenure, the large number of landowners and their heterogeneous profiles can pose significant challenges for conservation initiatives. This can lead to a range in landowners’ attitudes toward conservation initiatives, with some initiatives being received with resistance, and others…
Habiter son territoire forestier: Valeurs, attentes et perceptions des Mi’gmaq de Gespeg
Cet article s’intéresse aux Mi’gmaq de Gespeg, qui participent à des initiatives en foresterie communautaire depuis plus de quinze ans près de la ville de Gaspé, au Québec. Les auteurs tentent de définir ici les perceptions et les attentes de cette communauté dans ce domaine, ainsi que son engagement en foresterie communautaire, et de comprendre la direction qu’elle souhaite prendre dans son projet forestier. Dans ce but, ils ont effectué des séj…
Mixing Public and Private Agri-Environment Schemes: Effects on Farmers Participation in Quebec, Canada
Incentive-based mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) are increasingly being employed to encourage adoption of biodiversity conservation practices in agriculture. Farmers’ participation in a PES depends – amongst other factors – on their interactions with previous programs and schemes. This research analyses how the institutional characteristics and interactions of incentive-based mechanisms shape the type of farmers’ particip…
Would you like some fries with your ecosystem services: McDonaldization and conservation in Prince Edward Island, Canada
In response to widespread soil erosion, biodiversity loss, and rapid social and ecological homogenization of agri-environmental landscapes, economic incentives such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) are presented by natural resource managers as the most efficient way to address the unintended consequences of intensive agriculture. In this article, we explore the consequences of rationalizing conservation by adopting sociologist George Ritz…
Les controverses socioécologiques entourant la protection du caribou en forêt boréale: Recherche de l’acceptabilité sociale
Le caribou forestier est devenu un objet d’attention médiatique, notamment au sujet des mesures de protection qui soulèvent des enjeux d’acceptabilité sociale. Aux yeux des intervenants de la conservation et de plusieurs groupes sociaux, l’exploitation forestière dans les secteurs de la forêt boréale dont dépendent les hardes de caribous forestiers apparaît inacceptable. De l’autre côté, aux yeux du milieu de la foresterie, autant les acteurs ind…
Le « printemps érable » et la lutte étudiante contre la discipline de l'endettement
L'annonce de l'augmentation des frais de scolarité universitaires par le gouvernement provincial du Québec a provoqué une lutte étudiante massive. Les étudiant·es en grève, dénommé·es « carrés rouges » en référence au carré de feutre rouge épinglé à leur boutonnière, symbolisant le refus de devoir plonger « carrément dans le rouge » pour pouvoir étudier, ont dénoncé non seulement la hausse des frais d'inscription, mais aussi le système d'endettem…
Comparing polycentric configuration for adaptive governance within community forests: Case studies in Eastern North America
Looking at two cases of community forests (CF) in Eastern North America, this article examines their institutional features in order to assess whether they are conducive to adaptive governance. To do so, this article presents CFs as manifestations of polycentric governance, which allow identifying the complex networks of relations existing between different actors involved in governance at many scales. Polycentric governance is assumed to have a …
Studying Resource-Dependent Communities Through a Social-Ecological Lens? Examining Complementarity with Existing Research Traditions in Canada
This article explores the suitability of Ostrom and colleagues' social-ecological systems framework (SESF) for the study of resource-dependent communities in Canada. Through a broad literature about resource-dependent communities in Canada, three main approaches are identified, named staples research, rural development, and sustainability studies. Each of these research traditions is analyzed with regards to a common set of criteria – focus, scal…
Moving forward in implementing green infrastructures: Stakeholder perceptions of opportunities and obstacles in a major North American metropolitan area
La participation publique dans la gestion des forêts du Québec: Réorganisation de la concertation régionale dans un contexte institutionnel en transition
La gouvernance forestière au Québec a subi de multiples mutations au cours des dernières décennies. D’un régime forestier qui favorisait les acteurs industriels, le gouvernement québécois a progressivement intégré toute une variété d’acteurs locaux et régionaux. Au printemps 2015, le gouvernement adoptait cependant un projet de loi entraînant l’abolition de plusieurs structures de développement régional, notamment les Conférences régionales des é…
Nature et société: Un Ancien Dualisme Pour Une Situation Nouvelle
Among sociologists and philosophers now taking into account the interactions between the « social » and the « naturel », in the light of present crises, an anti-dualist position is frequently and strongly invocated. In the case of Bruno Latour, or indeed certain thinkers close to Marxism, such as Jason Moore, it is affirmed that there is not, on the one hand, nature and, on the other hand, society. The intermingling and intrication, it is argued,…
Réécrire l’histoire depuis l’anthropocène
In this interview Dipesh Chakrabarty reflects with remarkable lucidity on his personal and intellectual trajectory. Faced with the global environmental crises we are currently experiencing, in particular that of global warming, the « post-colonial » perspective he had himself defended, along with other intellectuals, and which was aimed at « provincializing Europe », must, he explains here, be enlarged. A further decentering is henceforth require…
La nature dans les limites du capital (et vice versa)
A consideration of the long-term trajectory of capitalist modernity, apprehended as a whole, following on from the work of Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein, remains a fruitful or indeed essential line of inquiry, both for historical investigation and social theory. Such an inquiry enables us to see that, from the era of the Voyages of Discovery onwards, capitalism developed an acute voracity regarding natural resources, doing so in planet…
The return of the plantation? Historical and contemporary trends in the relation between plantations and smallholdings in Southeast Asia
Following the 2007-2008 surge in international land deals, many analysts have portrayed this moment of agrarian history as a manifestation of the re-emergence of large-scale capitalist farming. However, official national-scale figures concerning key cash crops in Malaysia and Indonesia rather show the growing importance of smallholders. Although these figures must be read with caution, they nevertheless point to a contradiction. This incites us t…
Is oil palm agribusiness a sustainable development option for Indonesia? A review of issues and options
This article reviews proposals to improve the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability of Indonesia’s oil palm agribusiness. After considering the socioecological and economic systems in which the business is embedded, the study explores challenges to improving the governance and regulatory framework for smallholders, wage labourers in plantations and the biophysical environment. Specific initiatives regarding plantation labour and environm…
Everyday environmentalism: Creating an urban political ecology by Alex Loftus
Representations as practices: Producing a native space in Sarawak, Malaysia
The study looks at historical and contemporary representations of rural native communities in Sarawak, East Malaysia. Through the analysis of representations, the study underlines the production of a distinct space for native rural communities in Sarawak and highlights its material implications. The first part of the paper focuses on representations deployed by the colonial administrations to govern native populations of Sarawak. The consequences…
The return of the plantation? Historical and contemporary trends in the relation between plantations and smallholdings in Southeast Asia
Following the 2007-2008 surge in international land deals, many analysts have portrayed this moment of agrarian history as a manifestation of the re-emergence of large-scale capitalist farming. However, official national-scale figures concerning key cash crops in Malaysia and Indonesia rather show the growing importance of smallholders. Although these figures must be read with caution, they nevertheless point to a contradiction. This incites us t…
Moving forward in implementing green infrastructures: Stakeholder perceptions of opportunities and obstacles in a major North American metropolitan area
Would you like some fries with your ecosystem services: McDonaldization and conservation in Prince Edward Island, Canada
In response to widespread soil erosion, biodiversity loss, and rapid social and ecological homogenization of agri-environmental landscapes, economic incentives such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) are presented by natural resource managers as the most efficient way to address the unintended consequences of intensive agriculture. In this article, we explore the consequences of rationalizing conservation by adopting sociologist George Ritz…
Nature et société: Un Ancien Dualisme Pour Une Situation Nouvelle
Among sociologists and philosophers now taking into account the interactions between the « social » and the « naturel », in the light of present crises, an anti-dualist position is frequently and strongly invocated. In the case of Bruno Latour, or indeed certain thinkers close to Marxism, such as Jason Moore, it is affirmed that there is not, on the one hand, nature and, on the other hand, society. The intermingling and intrication, it is argued,…
Representations as practices: Producing a native space in Sarawak, Malaysia
The study looks at historical and contemporary representations of rural native communities in Sarawak, East Malaysia. Through the analysis of representations, the study underlines the production of a distinct space for native rural communities in Sarawak and highlights its material implications. The first part of the paper focuses on representations deployed by the colonial administrations to govern native populations of Sarawak. The consequences…
Mixing Public and Private Agri-Environment Schemes: Effects on Farmers Participation in Quebec, Canada
Incentive-based mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) are increasingly being employed to encourage adoption of biodiversity conservation practices in agriculture. Farmers’ participation in a PES depends – amongst other factors – on their interactions with previous programs and schemes. This research analyses how the institutional characteristics and interactions of incentive-based mechanisms shape the type of farmers’ particip…
Les controverses socioécologiques entourant la protection du caribou en forêt boréale: Recherche de l’acceptabilité sociale
Le caribou forestier est devenu un objet d’attention médiatique, notamment au sujet des mesures de protection qui soulèvent des enjeux d’acceptabilité sociale. Aux yeux des intervenants de la conservation et de plusieurs groupes sociaux, l’exploitation forestière dans les secteurs de la forêt boréale dont dépendent les hardes de caribous forestiers apparaît inacceptable. De l’autre côté, aux yeux du milieu de la foresterie, autant les acteurs ind…
Studying Resource-Dependent Communities Through a Social-Ecological Lens? Examining Complementarity with Existing Research Traditions in Canada
This article explores the suitability of Ostrom and colleagues' social-ecological systems framework (SESF) for the study of resource-dependent communities in Canada. Through a broad literature about resource-dependent communities in Canada, three main approaches are identified, named staples research, rural development, and sustainability studies. Each of these research traditions is analyzed with regards to a common set of criteria – focus, scal…
Réécrire l’histoire depuis l’anthropocène
In this interview Dipesh Chakrabarty reflects with remarkable lucidity on his personal and intellectual trajectory. Faced with the global environmental crises we are currently experiencing, in particular that of global warming, the « post-colonial » perspective he had himself defended, along with other intellectuals, and which was aimed at « provincializing Europe », must, he explains here, be enlarged. A further decentering is henceforth require…
La nature dans les limites du capital (et vice versa)
A consideration of the long-term trajectory of capitalist modernity, apprehended as a whole, following on from the work of Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein, remains a fruitful or indeed essential line of inquiry, both for historical investigation and social theory. Such an inquiry enables us to see that, from the era of the Voyages of Discovery onwards, capitalism developed an acute voracity regarding natural resources, doing so in planet…
Representations as practices: Producing a native space in Sarawak, Malaysia
The study looks at historical and contemporary representations of rural native communities in Sarawak, East Malaysia. Through the analysis of representations, the study underlines the production of a distinct space for native rural communities in Sarawak and highlights its material implications. The first part of the paper focuses on representations deployed by the colonial administrations to govern native populations of Sarawak. The consequences…
Everyday environmentalism: Creating an urban political ecology by Alex Loftus
Is oil palm agribusiness a sustainable development option for Indonesia? A review of issues and options
This article reviews proposals to improve the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability of Indonesia’s oil palm agribusiness. After considering the socioecological and economic systems in which the business is embedded, the study explores challenges to improving the governance and regulatory framework for smallholders, wage labourers in plantations and the biophysical environment. Specific initiatives regarding plantation labour and environm…
La participation publique dans la gestion des forêts du Québec: Réorganisation de la concertation régionale dans un contexte institutionnel en transition
La gouvernance forestière au Québec a subi de multiples mutations au cours des dernières décennies. D’un régime forestier qui favorisait les acteurs industriels, le gouvernement québécois a progressivement intégré toute une variété d’acteurs locaux et régionaux. Au printemps 2015, le gouvernement adoptait cependant un projet de loi entraînant l’abolition de plusieurs structures de développement régional, notamment les Conférences régionales des é…
Nature et société: Un Ancien Dualisme Pour Une Situation Nouvelle
Among sociologists and philosophers now taking into account the interactions between the « social » and the « naturel », in the light of present crises, an anti-dualist position is frequently and strongly invocated. In the case of Bruno Latour, or indeed certain thinkers close to Marxism, such as Jason Moore, it is affirmed that there is not, on the one hand, nature and, on the other hand, society. The intermingling and intrication, it is argued,…
Réécrire l’histoire depuis l’anthropocène
In this interview Dipesh Chakrabarty reflects with remarkable lucidity on his personal and intellectual trajectory. Faced with the global environmental crises we are currently experiencing, in particular that of global warming, the « post-colonial » perspective he had himself defended, along with other intellectuals, and which was aimed at « provincializing Europe », must, he explains here, be enlarged. A further decentering is henceforth require…
La nature dans les limites du capital (et vice versa)
A consideration of the long-term trajectory of capitalist modernity, apprehended as a whole, following on from the work of Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein, remains a fruitful or indeed essential line of inquiry, both for historical investigation and social theory. Such an inquiry enables us to see that, from the era of the Voyages of Discovery onwards, capitalism developed an acute voracity regarding natural resources, doing so in planet…
The return of the plantation? Historical and contemporary trends in the relation between plantations and smallholdings in Southeast Asia
Following the 2007-2008 surge in international land deals, many analysts have portrayed this moment of agrarian history as a manifestation of the re-emergence of large-scale capitalist farming. However, official national-scale figures concerning key cash crops in Malaysia and Indonesia rather show the growing importance of smallholders. Although these figures must be read with caution, they nevertheless point to a contradiction. This incites us t…
Comparing polycentric configuration for adaptive governance within community forests: Case studies in Eastern North America
Looking at two cases of community forests (CF) in Eastern North America, this article examines their institutional features in order to assess whether they are conducive to adaptive governance. To do so, this article presents CFs as manifestations of polycentric governance, which allow identifying the complex networks of relations existing between different actors involved in governance at many scales. Polycentric governance is assumed to have a …
Studying Resource-Dependent Communities Through a Social-Ecological Lens? Examining Complementarity with Existing Research Traditions in Canada
This article explores the suitability of Ostrom and colleagues' social-ecological systems framework (SESF) for the study of resource-dependent communities in Canada. Through a broad literature about resource-dependent communities in Canada, three main approaches are identified, named staples research, rural development, and sustainability studies. Each of these research traditions is analyzed with regards to a common set of criteria – focus, scal…
Moving forward in implementing green infrastructures: Stakeholder perceptions of opportunities and obstacles in a major North American metropolitan area
Le « printemps érable » et la lutte étudiante contre la discipline de l'endettement
L'annonce de l'augmentation des frais de scolarité universitaires par le gouvernement provincial du Québec a provoqué une lutte étudiante massive. Les étudiant·es en grève, dénommé·es « carrés rouges » en référence au carré de feutre rouge épinglé à leur boutonnière, symbolisant le refus de devoir plonger « carrément dans le rouge » pour pouvoir étudier, ont dénoncé non seulement la hausse des frais d'inscription, mais aussi le système d'endettem…
Mixing Public and Private Agri-Environment Schemes: Effects on Farmers Participation in Quebec, Canada
Incentive-based mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) are increasingly being employed to encourage adoption of biodiversity conservation practices in agriculture. Farmers’ participation in a PES depends – amongst other factors – on their interactions with previous programs and schemes. This research analyses how the institutional characteristics and interactions of incentive-based mechanisms shape the type of farmers’ particip…
Would you like some fries with your ecosystem services: McDonaldization and conservation in Prince Edward Island, Canada
In response to widespread soil erosion, biodiversity loss, and rapid social and ecological homogenization of agri-environmental landscapes, economic incentives such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) are presented by natural resource managers as the most efficient way to address the unintended consequences of intensive agriculture. In this article, we explore the consequences of rationalizing conservation by adopting sociologist George Ritz…
Les controverses socioécologiques entourant la protection du caribou en forêt boréale: Recherche de l’acceptabilité sociale
Le caribou forestier est devenu un objet d’attention médiatique, notamment au sujet des mesures de protection qui soulèvent des enjeux d’acceptabilité sociale. Aux yeux des intervenants de la conservation et de plusieurs groupes sociaux, l’exploitation forestière dans les secteurs de la forêt boréale dont dépendent les hardes de caribous forestiers apparaît inacceptable. De l’autre côté, aux yeux du milieu de la foresterie, autant les acteurs ind…
Intervention levers for increasing social acceptance of conservation measures on private land: A systematic literature review and comprehensive typology
Private lands are increasingly targeted for ecological restoration and conservation initiatives in high-income countries. However, the fragmented nature of private land tenure, the large number of landowners and their heterogeneous profiles can pose significant challenges for conservation initiatives. This can lead to a range in landowners’ attitudes toward conservation initiatives, with some initiatives being received with resistance, and others…
Habiter son territoire forestier: Valeurs, attentes et perceptions des Mi’gmaq de Gespeg
Cet article s’intéresse aux Mi’gmaq de Gespeg, qui participent à des initiatives en foresterie communautaire depuis plus de quinze ans près de la ville de Gaspé, au Québec. Les auteurs tentent de définir ici les perceptions et les attentes de cette communauté dans ce domaine, ainsi que son engagement en foresterie communautaire, et de comprendre la direction qu’elle souhaite prendre dans son projet forestier. Dans ce but, ils ont effectué des séj…
Avoiding an anticipated social-ecological trap in biodiversity conservation on private lands in Quebec province, Canada
During the last decades, global conservation efforts shifted from a mostly top-down process to preserve ecosystems on public lands to diverse governance processes involving stakeholders and conservation on private lands. Following these trends, the Quebec government (Canada) also engaged in biodiversity conservation efforts on private lands to reduce perceived environmental injustice arising from imposed conservation measures. However, citizen in…
Enhancing natural habitats conservation success on private lands by understanding and addressing deficiencies in social capital
Over the last decades, biodiversity conservation in Quebec province, Canada, has evolved from an ecology-centered discipline, mostly focused on ecosystem protection on public lands (e.g., protected areas and reserves), to an interdisciplinary field with increasing participatory efforts deployed to preserve private lands' habitats. Yet, conservation on private lands has experienced mixed results, notably because of limits regarding the creation of…
Political science (15 works) · Economics (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Environmental resource management (8 works) · French Urban and Social Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 works) · Forest Management and Policy (6 works)