Table des matières

Valérie Verdier

Preface

Estienne Rodary

Introduction

• Preserving nature: the long game
• Biodiversity: from a sectoral approach to an integrated understanding
• Sustainable development: a holistic approach
• The objectives of sustainable development: bringing ethics back into the fold
• Sustainability, diversity and ethics at the heart of scientific preoccupations

New tools for studying biodiversity

Swimming in a stream of information

Artificial intelligence to the rescue for biodiversity

The Nagoya Protocol, reconciling ambition with effective action

Listening to the environment

A botanist in my smartphone

Using genetics to identify the adaptative capacities of coral

Protecting biodiversity

Converting waste water into fertiliser for leafier cities

Of dams and fish

Cataloguing the French Guiana forest

Birds and tourists as research topics

Making sure that regulation rhymes with appropriation

The proportion of birds

Biodiversity and health

Nature’s abundance protects us against pandemics

At the cutting edge of ethnopharmacology

Tracking infectious diseases

Controlling the inevitable

Biodiversity to feed the world

Trees, the backbone of agriculture

Moving towards sustainable aquaculture

Adaptive fishing in Peru

Pastures and humans drip-fed by glaciers

Custodians of agricultural diversity

Rice as a common good

The potential of the world beneath our feet

Mangroves, a new eldorado?

Plant symbiosis

The Hidden Agriculture of the Amazon Forest

List of Scientific Contributors

• New tools for studying biodiversity
• Swimming in a stream of information
• Artificial intelligence to the rescue for biodiversity
• The Nagoya protocol, reconciling ambition with effective action
• Listening to the environment
• A botanist in my smartphone
• Using genetics to identify the adaptative capacities of coral
• Protecting biodiversity
• Converting waste water into fertiliser for leafier cities
• Of dams and fish
• Cataloguing the French Guiana forest
• Birds and tourists as research topics
• Making sure that regulation rhymes with appropriation
• The proportion of birds
• Biodiversity and health
• Nature’s abundance protects us against pandemics
• At the cutting edge of ethnopharmacology
• Tracking infectious diseases
• Controlling the inevitable
• Biodiversity to feed the world
• Trees, the backbone of agriculture
• Moving towards sustainable aquaculture
• Adaptive fishing in Peru
• Pastures and humans drip-fed by glaciers
• Custodians of agricultural diversity
• Rice as a common good
• The potential of the world beneath our feet
• Mangroves, a new Eldorado?
• Plant symbiosis
• The Hidden Agriculture of the Amazon Forest