Keyword: closure of constraints

16/12/2024 — 29 rue d’Ulm, Centre Cavaillès, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Workshop organization: Maël Montévil, Anton Robert. Abstract What understanding does the closure of constraints bring about a biological system in practices? Without discussing particular cases, one cannot answer this question. The goal of this workshop is to bring together and synthesize individual modeling experiences […]

Do forests grow where it rains, or does it rain where forests grow? This was the title given by Antonio Nobre, a climate researcher at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, to one of his texts on the role of the Amazon rainforest in climate regulation (Instituto Socioambiental (Brazil), 2008). Nobre often emphasizes, in his […]