Year after year, our temperature measurement systems are becoming more precise and, it is clear that the annual averages are not decreasing, on the contrary, we are shattering our heat records. However, the rise in temperatures is only one indicator among others of the damage that our humanity is causing to the living world. Indeed, marine and terrestrial biodiversity is collapsing, fishery resources are being exhausted without the possibility of regenerating and, without forgetting non-renewable resources. However, the challenge for the years to come is to try to limit as much as possible this damage caused to the environment to its capacity to regenerate.
Long accused of not having taken into account the damage caused to the environment, economists have, since the 90s, partially integrated the environment into their analyses. Thus, from a simple treatment of pollution as being "negative external effects" of the functioning of the market, currents such as those of the bioeconomy or even the symbiotic economy also called regenerative economy constitute new points of support to try to grasp the scale of the problem in order to resolve it by reorganizing our economies.
Regenerative economics has a particularly interesting capacity to question the very meaning of the economic discipline. It makes it possible to move from the basis of a discipline allowing the allocation of means between resources that are always too rare, to a discipline whose very essence is to enable economic and social benefits to be multiplied while restoring environmental ecosystems.
Since, in particular, Isabelle Delannoy (2016)1, the work carried out around the regenerative or symbiotic economy can constitute the cornerstones in the analysis of territorial development. Indeed, translated at the local level, the regenerative economy makes it possible to build a battery of indicators adapted to each territory which in return reflects a “regenerative” dynamic of the local economy.
Concretely, local training spaces such as MFRs but also other training partners can contribute to the regenerative economy by setting up training that leads to specific territorial skills which allow territories to truly engage in social and environmental transitions. To support an approach such as the alignment of training strategies with the principles of the regenerative economy, practical tools exist such as the territorial strategic foresight approach, the HR-oriented territorial diagnosis or even the Territorial GPEC. These tools make it possible to think in the long term about the strategic activities of tomorrow, they bring them into line with the challenges of the territory, the economic actors and those of training. Finally, they make it possible to immediately initiate actions leading to a change in posture and to co-construct a better regenerated and humanly livable territory.
Truong Giang PHAM
