Sustainability Science - Volume 1
Understand, co-construct, transform
Over seventy authors from throughout IRD - scientists, heads of department, project officers and members of civil society - share their knowledge and skills in sustainable development research.
ln these pages, their different views form an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral insight into sustainability science, and provide the reader with food for thought on this emerging approach.
Note de l’éditeur
Peer review board
Valérie Verdier, IRD Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Corinne Brunon-Meunier, Deputy General Director
Isabelle Benoist, General Secretary
Philippe Charvis, Deputy Director of Science
Marie-Lise Sabrié, Director of the Scientific and Technological Culture Mission
Éditeur : IRD Éditions
Lieu d’édition : Marseille
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 17 février 2026
ISBN numérique : 978-2-7099-3122-9
DOI : 10.4000/15pl7
Collection : Hors collection
Année d’édition : 2023
Nombre de pages : 167
Valérie Verdier
PrefaceOlivier Dangles et Claire Fréour
IntroductionUnderstand
Olivier Dangles et Claire Fréour
Sustainability science: Finding sustainable solutions within planetary boundariesJulien Blanco et Clémence Moreau
Understand, co-construct, transform: a triptych in need of social sciences?Lucie Sauzéat
Volcanic soils and health: what are the risks?Ignacio Palomo
Supporting sustainability scienceAlexandre Ganachaud et Elisabeth Holland
Pathways to supporting sustainable development in the Pacific OceanGauthier Dobigny, Soanandrasana Rahelinirina, Meheretu Yonas et al.
Community-based rodent management in African citiesAlexis Drogoul, Jeanne Cottenceau et Ngoc Doanh Nguyen
A research partnership for improving sustainability science methodologiesRodolphe Devillers et Esther Fondo
Artisanal fisheries through the lens of the Sustainable Development GoalsOlivier Barrière, David Williamson, Olivier Hamant et al.
Socio-ecological coviability as a response to the planetary emergencyArona Diedhiou et Kouassi Lazare Kouakou
Towards sustainable hydropower generation in West AfricaCo-construct
Frédéric Thomas
Sustainability science, a more engaged science?Jeanne Riaux, S. Massuel, A-L. Collard et al.
Promoting socio-hydrological interdisciplinarityStéphanie Carrière
Ethnoecology through the lens of sustainability scienceAdeline Barnaud, Cécile Berthouly-Salazar, Jean-Louis Pham et al.
Agrobiodiversity and sustainability: a collaborative approachThierry Lebel
Transdisciplinarity “Around 2°C”Matthieu Blanchard et François Molle
The World Water Forum: who discusses what and how?Claire Fréour et Olivier Dangles
“Pathways” at the heart of a transdisciplinary community of practicesMuriel Mambrini et Gaëll Mainguy
Knowledge communities as a basis for scientific multiculturalismMyriam Habil
CoLAB: a multi-stakeholder methodology for researchIRD, makesense and Bond'innov, France
Alexandre Bisquerra et Yoann Malinge
The Future Of, bringing together open innovation, Southern inclusion and sustainability scienceTransform
Marie-Lise Sabrié et Caroline Vilatte
Science-society dialogue: a prerequisite for sustainability scienceJean-Baptiste Meyer
Universities and sustainability: a review of recent literaturePatricia Ricard
The “magic square” of transformationLaurence Maurice et Rodolphe Devillers
Profiles of researchers in sustainability scienceQuentin Struelens
Interdisciplinary facilitators: polyglots at the interfacesJean-Joinville Vacher et Anne-France Piteau
Science diplomacy: state of play and perspectivesMichel Cot, Laure Emperaire, Isabelle Henry et al.
Societal impact assessments of research for sustainability sciencePerine Sanglier, Eric Martin et Julia Vallauri
The Research Fairness Initiative (RFI): a tool for strengthening fair partnershipEsthere Garnier, Leo Houdebine, Gaëll Mainguy et al.
SDG summer school: sprinting towards sustainability scienceMichel Labadie, Jean-Christophe Desconnets et François Sabot
Digital data and sustainabilityLaure Berti-Equille, Alexis Drogoul et Jean-Daniel Zucker
Artificial intelligence for sustainability scienceNicolas Gratiot et Géraldine Sarret
Together for climate actionOver seventy authors from throughout IRD - scientists, heads of department, project officers and members of civil society - share their knowledge and skills in sustainable development research.
ln these pages, their different views form an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral insight into sustainability science, and provide the reader with food for thought on this emerging approach.
Olivier Dangles (dir.)
Olivier Dangles is a researcher in ecology and sustainability science at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and is currently based at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. Over the last decade he has worked in the tropical Andes in collaboration with researchers in other disciplines (physics, glaciology, hydrology, information science, sustain-ability, geography, sociology, history) to contribute to advances in knowledge in the field of aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity in the face of glacier retreat and other consequences of climate change.
Claire Fréour (dir.)
Claire Fréour is a sustainability science project manager at IRD.
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