Sustainability Science - Volume 2
Understand, co-construct, transform
In this second tome, more than 100 authors from the IRD ecosystem – scientists, heads of department, diplomats, project leaders and representatives of civil society – continue the process of collective reflection launched in 2022. Structured around the “understand, co-construct, transform” triptych, these interweaving perspectives on knowledge, know-how and life skills combine to offer an interdisciplinary vision of sustainability science which transcends sectoral boundaries.
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 : 11 mai 2026
ISBN numérique : 978-2-7099-3121-2
DOI : 10.4000/167en
Collection : Hors collection
Année d’édition : 2023
Nombre de pages : 197
Valérie Verdier
PrefaceOlivier Dangles et Marie-Lise Sabrié
IntroductionUnderstand
Julio Benavides
Sustainable coexistence between humans and wildlife and the challenge of zoonotic diseasesAnne-Gaëlle Beurier
Sustainability science put to the test of scienceFlorence Cassam Chenaï
Crises and sustainability science: a public policy issue?Christophe Diagne
Zoonoses and sustainable urbanisation in the Global South: understanding the risks to prevent them more effectivelyFabienne Errero, Juliette Cerceau, Guillaume Junqua et al.
Studying the evolutionary dynamics of the interaction between water and man in the past in order to plan for the futureTaha Imzilen, Christophe Lett et David Kaplan
Towards more sustainable use of fish aggregating devicesPierre Janin
Food and dilemmasGaëlle Uzu, Olivier Évrard et Xavier Mari
Fine particle pollution: a beadcrumb trail through the SDG mazeIrène Teixidor-Toneu
Sustainable gathering, an example of reciprocal contribution between people and natureJulia Le Noë
Socio-ecological metabolism for thinking about the sustainability of society-environment interactionsLola Richelle et Alain Brauman
Soil health: a holistic and transdisciplinary approachPierre Exertier, Jonathan Chenal et Alexandre Couhert
Space geodesy to observe changes in the Earth's habitable conditionsSylvain Souchaud, Marie-Pierre Ledru, Lionel Siame et al.
Studying territorial dynamics in the AnthropoceneCo-construct
Eduardo García Alonso et Hubert Mazurek
Urban vulnerabilities to climate change: a case study from BoliviaMariama Diallo
Nature as an interdisciplinary objectStéphanie Dos Santos, Coffi Aholou, Bérénice Bon et al.
A shared fieldwork area: fertile ground for interdisciplinary research into cities in the Global SouthYodit Kebede
Agroecological research: "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude"Jean-Luc Chotte
Moving towards land degradation neutralityCéline Duwig et Sébastien Hardy
Utilising the critical zone concept in interdisciplinary researchJean-Philippe Venot
In defence of militant research: understanding and action in socio-hydrological territoriesMaria J. Darias et Brett M. Macey
Nutrition-sensitive aquaculture for more sustainable aquatic food systemsStéphanie Duvail, Simon Mwansasu et Dinis Juizo
Co-constructing scenarios for Indian Ocean deltasTessa Bonincontro, Juliette Cerceau, Florian Tena-Chollet et al.
Moving beyond transdisciplinarityEstelle Fourat, Marjorie Le Bars, Pascale Moiti-Maizi et al.
Sustainable food systems in the Global South(s)Sarah Krauss
International joint laboratories: experiments with a sustainable, equitable partnership modelTransform
Angela Barthes
Sustainability sciences and educationJérémie Cavé et Yann-Philippe Tastevin
From urban tips to extractive territories: reformulating the waste issueMiriam Cué Rio
How do we define "sustainable meat consumption"?Jaëla Devakarne, Louisiana Teixeira et Alexandre Bisquerra
Isopolis, a project of societal transformation for La RéunionJean-Baptiste Meyer et Emmy Arts
Academia and sustainability: towards a holistic approachAnastasia-Alithia Seferiadis et IRD, UMR LPED, Marseille, France
The contribution of gender studies to transdisciplinary sustainabilty scienceAbdelfettah Sifeddine et Olivier Dangles
Sustainability science in Mexico: taking the plungeCorinne Brunon-Meunier
Scientific diplomacy: a concept still waiting to be invented?Jean-Christophe Castella et Genowefa Blundo Canto
Participatory theory of change and the agroecological transitionClaire Chaygneaud-Dupuy et Marine Sabounji
New ways of workingMarie-Lise Sabrié, Hugo Catherine, Pascal Aventurier et al.
No sustainability science without open scienceIn this second tome, more than 100 authors from the IRD ecosystem – scientists, heads of department, diplomats, project leaders and representatives of civil society – continue the process of collective reflection launched in 2022. Structured around the “understand, co-construct, transform” triptych, these interweaving perspectives on knowledge, know-how and life skills combine to offer an interdisciplinary vision of sustainability science which transcends sectoral boundaries.
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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