Philippe Deuffic

Philippe Deuffic is a French environmental sociologist at INRAE, the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment. He works on the social construction of environmental problems and forest stakeholders’ perceptions of biodiversity. He defended his PhD in 2012 on the agenda-setting of dead wood as an environmental issue in different arenas of negotiations. (From the UE level to the regional level). Since then, he has been working on the ecologization of forest management practices, including nature-based solutions as a means to reduce the impact of natural hazards and to enhance forest resilience Research items: social construction of nature, environmental problems and risks, perceptions and attitudes towards forest biodiversity and climate change, social values of forest, social norms, forest owners typology