Publications
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Exploiter durablement les forêts tropicales
(2024)
Over the last thirty years, more than four hundred million hectares of tropical forest have been destroyed. Added to this deforestation is forest degradation, which in some regions of the world, such as the Amazon, affects ...
Restaurer les milieux et prévenir les inondations grâce au génie végétal
(2018)
Public policies in France and in Europe obligate decision makers to consider an integrated management of habitats and territories that combines several benefits. This book provides innovative vegetation engineering solutions ...
L'élevage des grands camélidés
(2022)
The ancestor of the large camelids, originally from North America, is thought to have migrated to Asia several million years ago, to settle in arid areas: the Arabian Peninsula for the dromedaries - also called Arabian ...
Zoonoses
(2022)
Animals are all around us. We overlap with them in environments across the globe, which leads to myriad interactions, including shared infectious and parasitic diseases. Such diseases, known as zoonoses, are the focus of ...
Effets des sons anthropiques sur la faune marine
(2022)
The development of offshore wind energy is currently under debate. The possible detrimental effects of noise pollution on marine life are a legitimate concern for civil society, industry and political bodies. This book, ...
Forests, carbon cycle and climate change
(2010)
The results presented in this book summarize the main findings of the CARBOFOR project, which brought together 52 scientists from 14 research units to investigate the effects of future climate on the carbon cycle, the ...
Gouverner la biodiversité ou comment réussir à échouer
(2021)
Why are we so successful in failing environmental policy? This book sheds light on the conditions of impossibility of governance of biodiversity. The author traces the role of the notion of biodiversity and conservation ...
Les terres agricoles face à l'urbanisation
(2018)
This work addresses the key points of the problem of land consumption by focusing on farmland in France and Australia. It suggests exploring territorial engineering “toolboxes†developed and used to face up to the ...
La systémique agraire à l'Inra
(2021)
Based on original research, combining archives and oral testimonies, this work traces, from the first trial and error of systemic approaches in the 1960s to the turning point of sustainable development in the 2000s, the ...
La méthode IDEA4 Indicateurs de durabilité des exploitations agricoles
(2023)
IDEA4 is a method for assessing and analyzing farm sustainability. Its theoretical framework combines a dual approach based on the three dimensions of sustainability - agroecological, socio-territorial, economic - and the ...