{"id":7151,"date":"2018-01-05T06:51:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T06:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2018-01-05T06:51:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T06:51:51","slug":"a-ministry-for-the-ecological-and-inclusive-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/01\/05\/a-ministry-for-the-ecological-and-inclusive-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This, as you probably know, is not Mr Gove's latest plan to square the post-Brexit farming\u2013environment circle. \u00a0Rather, it's the name of France's energy \/ environment <a href=\"https:\/\/franceintheus.org\/spip.php?article8059#03\">ministry<\/a> which is now located in an 18th century mansion close to the Elys\u00e9e Palace.<\/p>\n<p>It's easy to scoff \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ministry_of_Ecology\">Wikipedia<\/a> has the history of title changes of this ministry \u2013 and France also has a\u00a0Ministry for Solidarity and Health, but there is something in the combination of words:\u00a0<em>Ecological and Inclusive Transition <\/em>that is key to understanding sustainability; something about the umbilical link between people and nature, and between people in nature, and people as part of nature. \u00a0I hope this embodiment finds its way from the title to the ministry's actual practice. \u00a0I note, however, that there's a separate ministry of agriculture and food which, I guess, must be 100% focused on keeping the CAP focused on French interests.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, as you probably know, is not Mr Gove's latest plan to square the post-Brexit farming\u2013environment circle. \u00a0Rather, it's the name of France's energy \/ environment ministry which is now located in an 18th century mansion close to the Elys\u00e9e...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}