Dr Nadia BELAIDI

Senior Researcher CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Nadia Belaïdi is a senior research fellow at the CNRS (UMR 7206 Eco-anthropologie, CNRS - MNHN - Université de Paris), specialized in international and comparative environmental law and in anthropology of law. Her work focuses on the “ecological public order”: the way societies include Nature into the hierarchy of social values. It aims to understand whether and how Nature is/can be recognized and protected as an essential social value. From the exploration of the different ways of ruling the relationship between Human and Nature, according to cultures and societies, she especially explores conservation issues, from practice (in particular in protected and conserved areas) to the making process of legal norms and contribute, as well, to an anthropological approach on conservation. She is a member of the Protected areas Commission and of the OECM working group of the French committee of the IUCN.