Her research focuses on how competiting political discourses and modes of governance name, govern and affect biodiversity and its conservation.
Within the EU Horizon-2020 Safeguard project, she investigates the role that discursive dynamics play in keeping pollinator-unfriendly practices in place at the European level.
In parallel, Florence also works on the politics of biodiversity offsetting.
Main research areas:
· Conservation social sciences
· Political sciences
· Political ecology
Florence holds a Bachelor in Political Sciences from Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), a Master in Economics and Public Policy from Sciences Po and École Polytechnique (France) and a PhD thesis from RMIT University (Australia). She has worked with various stakeholders in the fields of environment and biodiversity conservation in Australia, the Middle-East and Europe.
Damiens et al. (2022) ‘Professionalisation and the spectacle of nature: understanding changes in the visual imaginaries of private protected area organisations in Australia’, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Coffey et al. (2022) ‘Assessing biodiversity policy designs in Australia, France and Sweden. Comparative lessons for transformative governance of biodiversity?’, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, pp. 1–14. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2117145.
Damiens, FLP, Backstrom, A and Gordon, A (2021) ‘Governing for “no net loss” of biodiversity over the long term: challenges and pathways forward’, One Earth, 4(1), pp. 60–74. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.12.012.
Damiens, FLP, Porter, L and Gordon, A (2020) ‘The politics of biodiversity offsetting across time and institutional scales’, Nature Sustainability, 4(2), pp. 170–179. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00636-9.
Damiens, FLP et al. (2017) ‘Why Politics and Context Matter in Conservation Policy’, Global Policy, 8(2), pp. 253–256. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12415.
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