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

Included from 1992 in the International Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), themes related to Health are increasingly cited in later COPs (Conferences of the Parties) as well as taken into account into other conventions (CMS, the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species or CITES, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species). From a biodiversity perspective, Health thematic encompasses dimensions of human health, animal health (domestic and wild fauna), and ecosystem health. Other ecological or environmental concepts such as biodiversity, ecosystemic approach, and risks assessment favored the emergence of Health issues and their integration into the CBD. Having realized the mining of the textual corpus associating the three conventions related to biodiversity and all the decisions or resolutions of their respective COPs up to 2014, we obtain more than 22,172 complex nominal terms among which 213 are related to Health. Those terms are organized hierarchically into concepts (micro-ontologies), specific to each concept linked to Health (biodiversity, disease, health, pathogen, security, warning, etc.). We thus analyze how concepts are used in a complete or partial form in each COP and how they are transmitted between COPs through a multiplex network: each type of link of the network corresponds to a concept. Then, we identify the most central COPs and their gathering into communities in the process of Health issues emergence. The terminological network links being colored by concepts, we analyze how each concept contributes to the building of an integrative and multi-dimensional approach of Health issues within the main biodiversity-related conventions.

Claire Lajaunie (1) , Pierre Mazzega (2) , Romain Boulet (3)

1 DICE / CERIC - Droits International, Comparé et Européen / Centre d'études et de recherches internationales et communautaires (CERIC)
2 GET - Géosciences Environnement Toulouse
3 IMT - Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse UMR5219

Domaines: Droit; Environnement et Société; Théorie des représentations [math.RT]

Claire Lajaunie, Pierre Mazzega, Romain Boulet. Health in Biodiversity-Related Conventions: Analysis of a Multiplex Terminological Network (1973 –2016). Big Data in Computational Social Science and Humanities Editors: Chen, Shu-Heng (Ed.), pp.165-182, 2018. ⟨halshs-02120162⟩