Health in Biodiversity-Related Conventions: Analysis of a Multiplex Terminological Network (1973 –2016)

Lajaunie, Claire; Mazzéga, Pierre; Boulet, Romain

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“…Note that the importance of a theme in a policy or in a regulation is not necessarily reflected by the number of expressions or lemmas that refer to it. A low number of term occurrences is sometimes the weak signal associated with the emergence of a new theme (Lajaunie and Mazzega, 2016;Lajaunie et al, 2018). On this basis, a non-oriented graph (network) was constructed as follows: each policy was a node to which the corresponding label was attributed (see Table 1); a link was established between the policies (nodes) P j and P k (jk) if they addressed at least one same theme; a weight N jk was assigned to the link between two policies which address the same N jk themes.…”

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Orchestrating the Ocean Using a National Ocean Policy: The Case of the Solomon Islands

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Oceans are governed by multiple policies at international, regional and national levels. National level policies have traditionally been sector-based, covering fisheries, tourism, environment etc. Recently more integrated and holistic National Ocean Policies (NOP) have been promulgated. The Pacific Ocean also has well-developed regional ocean-related policies spanning decades. The work presented here uses lexicometric analysis to map the interlinkages between regional and national policies to determine if they are evolving synergistically. Focusing on the Solomon Islands, due to its reliance on the ocean and producing a NOP in 2018, 13,622 expressions were extracted from the corpus of 8 national and 10 regional ocean-related policies. Network analysis displayed limited differentiation between the NOP, national sector-based policies and regional policies. Clustering of policies showed progressive splitting of policies from a single cluster, rather than by formation of a number of separate clusters. This behaviour reflects the thematic interlocking of policies: all share many themes, and the more integrative policies add a few additional sectoral themes. The themes rarely addressed in the corpus include energy, agriculture, pollution and education. The NOP was predominantly built on existing national or regional policies and their main themes rather than setting a new direction in ocean governance. The benefit of the NOP may be less about its content itself, but the creation of allied cross-ministerial architecture. With the intense pressure on the oceans and its resources in present times, there will be a growing need for more substantive policy evolution.

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“…Secondly, it became useful to analyse what simple lexicometric indicators can reveal about the emergence of a theme in international environmental law conventions [18]. The current international health situation gives particular relief to our analysis of the emergence of the health-environment theme, from the 90s, and more recently (roughly from 2010) of "One Health"which links human health, animal health and environmental health, in the Rio conventions [19,20].…”

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Conceptual Graphs and Terminological Idiosyncrasy in UNCLOS and CBD

Mazzéga

2021

Front. Phys.

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Do two conventions of international environmental law necessarily endow the same word with the same meaning? A single counterexample is enough to answer in the negative: this is the case of the term “resource” in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Beyond this result, we tackle the questions, raised by the method of analysis implemented, about the semantics of legal texts, a source of interpretative flexibility but also of cognitive amalgamations and confusions of various types. A conceptual graph is associated with each proposition or sentence comprising the term “resource.” Some expressions, especially those of a deontic nature and noun phrases naming a group of interrelated entities or a fact, are encoded in nested graphs. The scope of a term is revealed by the neighbourhood of its uses. Neighbouring expressions, positioned along the paths of conceptual graphs, are ranked owing to their distance from the target expression. Then the neighbours the most contributing to the distributional meaning of the targets are classified in a coarse taxonomy, providing basic ontological traits to “resource” and related expressions in each convention. Although the two conventions rely on the same language, the weak overlap of their respective neighbourhoods of the term “resource” and associated expressions and their contrasted ontological anchorages highlight idiosyncratic meanings and, consequently, divergent orientations and understandings regarding the protection and conservation of resources, especially of living resources. Thus, the complexity of legal texts operates both in the gap between language semantics and cognitive understanding of the concepts used, and in the interpretative flexibility and opportunities for confusion that the texts offer but that the elementary operations of formalisation allow to deconstruct and clarify.

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Organizational Consciousness Versus Artificial Consciousness

Lajaunie

Mazzéga

2019

Law, Governance and Technology Series

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What is the capacity of an informal network of organizations to produce answers in response to complex tasks requiring the integration of masses of information designed as a high-level cognitive and collective activity? Are some network configurations more favourable than others to accomplish these tasks? We present a method to make these assessments, inspired by the Information Integration Theory issued from the modelling of consciousness. First we evaluate the informational network created by the sharing of information between organizations for the realization of a given task. Then we assess the natural network ability to integrate information, a capacity determined by the partition of its members whose information links are less efficient. We illustrate the method by the analysis of various functional integrations of Southeast Asian organizations, creating a spontaneous network participating in the study and management of interactions between health and environment. Several guidelines are then proposed to continue the development of this fruitful analogy between artificial and organizational consciousness (refraining ourselves from assuming that one or the other exists).

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Health in Biodiversity-Related Conventions: Analysis of a Multiplex Terminological Network (1973 –2016)

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Orchestrating the Ocean Using a National Ocean Policy: The Case of the Solomon Islands

Orchestrating the Ocean Using a National Ocean Policy: The Case of the Solomon Islands

Conceptual Graphs and Terminological Idiosyncrasy in UNCLOS and CBD

Organizational Consciousness Versus Artificial Consciousness

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