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Coviability of Social and Ecological Systems: Reconnecting Mankind to the Biosphere in an Era of Global Change

Vol.1 : The Foundations of a New Paradigm

  • Puts forward a new concept to analyse the man-nature relationship
  • Offers governance solutions to face the ecological emergency
  • Provides a unique view on environmental change using inter- and transdisciplinary approaches

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-lxxxii
  2. Introductory Chapter: An Interweaving to Be Formalized, the Biosphere Faced with the Relationship Between the Human and the Non-human

    • Olivier Barrière, Catherine Prost, Voyner Ravena-Cañete, Vincent Douzal, Mireille Fargette, Jean-Pierre Aubin
    Pages 1-38
  3. Towards the Theoretical Foundation of Coviability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-46
    2. Coviability, Through the Lens of the Mathematical Theory of Viability

      • Jean-Pierre Aubin, Marie-Hélène Durand
      Pages 65-77
    3. Mathematical Approach of Coviability: Concept, Modelling and Control

      • Abdelhaq El Jai, Samira El Yacoubi, Marie Claude Simon El Jai, Morgan Mangeas, Vincent Douzal, Abdel Samed Bernoussi
      Pages 79-103
    4. Biotic Interactions, Coviability and Dynamic of Biodiversity

      • Laurence Pascal, Catherine Moulia, Laurent Gavotte
      Pages 223-251

About this book

This book considers the principle of ‘sustainable development’ which is currently facing a growing environmental crisis. A new mode of thinking and positioning the ecological imperative is the major input of this volume. The prism of co-viability is not the economics of political agencies that carry the ideology of the dominant/conventional economic schools, but rather an opening of innovation perspectives through science. This volume, through its four parts, more than 40 chapters and a hundred authors, gives birth to a paradigm which crystallizes within a concept that will support in overcoming the ecological emergency deadlock. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • IRD – French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, UMR ESPACE-DEV, Montpellier, France

    Olivier Barrière, Gilbert David, Mireille Fargette, Maud Loireau, Frédérique Seyler

  • Center for Research on Environment, Human Security and Governance (CERES), Ibn Zohr University of Agadir, Agadir, Morocco

    Mohamed Behnassi

  • IRSTEA National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture, Montpellier, France

    Vincent Douzal

  • University of Montpellier, UMR ESPACE-DEV, Montpellier, France

    Thérèse Libourel

  • University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Laurence Pascal

  • The Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

    Catherine Prost

  • The Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil

    Voyner Ravena-Cañete

  • CNRS – The French National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, France

    Serge Morand

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