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

This second volume is the work of more than 55 authors from 15 different disciplines and includes complex systems science which studies the viability of components, and also the study of empirical situations. As readers will discover, the coviability of social and ecological systems is based on the contradiction between humanity, which adopts finalized objectives, and the biosphere, which refers to a ecological functions. We see how concrete situations shed light on the coviability's determinants, and in this book the very nature of the coviability, presented as a concept-paradigm, is defined in a transversal and ontological ways.

By adopting a systemic approach, without advocating any economic dogma (such as development) or dichotomizing between humans and nature, while emphasizing what is relevant to humans and what is not, this work neutrally contextualizes man's place in the biosphere. It offers a new mode of thinking and positioning of the ecological imperative, and will appeal to all those working with social and ecological systems.

Auteur

Olivier Barrière, Ph.D

Dr. Olivier Barrière is an environmental jurist and a researcher at the IRD (french Research Institute for Sustainable Development), which develops a legal socio-ecological approach through the anthropology of law. He got an HDR (accreditation to supervise research) on May 2012, on this topic: Elements of a legal socio-ecology: the right facing the ecological emergency. For 20 years his work has focused on the relationship which bond human beings to their environment, within the limits of a legal regulation which is faced with progressing global and environmental changes. O. Barrière works thus on local law concerned with the viability of systems by promoting innovative concepts within the limits of property-Environment, of the co-viability of the social and ecological systems, and of the negotiated law which creates a relation between international law and the local realities along with endogenous representations. His working areas are: Africa (Morroco, Senegal, Mali, Tchad, Rwanda), French Guyana, Nouvelle Calédonie and France (Causses-Cévennes).

For several years O. Barrière formalizes a network of researchers and experts in the field of coviability by bringing together a variety of disciplines through meetings and seminars. Within its Research Institution (IRD) he leads an interdisciplinary transverse axis on the coviability in a transdisciplinary aims.

Olivier Barrière, as project manager, implement experiments in close cooperation with stakeholders, local elected and national technical institutions to achieve concrete practical results as local law, as environmental convention, socio-ecological resilience pact, pastoral pact. He also teaches environmental law to future managers of natural lands at the University of Sciences of Montpellier.

Mohamed Behnassi, Ph.D

Mohamed Behnassi is specialist in Environment and Human Security Law and Politics. After the obtention of his Ph.D in 2003 from the Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Hassan II University of Casablanca for a Thesis titled: Multilateral Environmental Negotiations: Towards a Global Governance for Environment, he accessed to the Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Ibn Zohr University of Agadir, Morocco as Assistant Professor (2014). In 2011, he obtained the status of Associate Professor and in 2017 the status of full professor. He served as the Head of Public Law Department (2014-2015) and the Director of the Research Laboratory for Territorial Governance, Human Security and Sustainability (LAGOS) (2015-at present). In addition, Dr. Behnassi is the Founder and Director of the Center for Environment, Human Security and Governance (CERES) (former North-South Center for Social Sciences (NRCS), 2008-2015). Dr. Behnassi is also Associate Researcher at the UMR ESPACE-DEV, Research Institute for Development (IRD), France. In 2011, he completed a U.S. State Department-sponsored Civic Education and Leadership Fellowship (CELF) at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA and in 2014 he obtained a Diploma in Diplomacy and International Environmental Law from the University of Eastern Finland and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Finland. Dr. Behnassi has pursued several post-doctoral trainings since the completion of his PhD.

His core teaching and expertise areas cover: environmental change, human security, sustainability, climate change politics and governance, human rights, CSR, etc. He has published numerous books with international publishers such as: Environmental Change and Human Security in Africa and the Middle East (Springer 2017); Vulnerability of Agriculture, Water and Fisheries to Climate Change (Springer 2014); Science, Policy and Politics of Modern Agricultural System (Springer 2014); Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global Environmental Change (Springer 2013), Global Food Insecurity (Springer, 2011); Sustainable Agricultural Development (Springer, 2011); Health, Environment and Development (European University Editions, 2011), and Climate Change, Energy Crisis and Food Security (Ottawa University Press, 2011). He has also published numerous research papers and made presentations on these at international conferences. In addition, Dr. Behnassi has organized many international conferences covering the above research areas in collaboration with national and international organizations and managed many research and expertise projects on behalf of various national and international institutions. Behnassi is regularly requested to contribute to review and evaluation processes and to provide scientific expertise nationally and internationally. Other professional activities include Social Compliance Auditi...

Contenu

1.Preview.- Chapter 28 : The future of oases in North Africa through the prism of a systemic approach: towards which type of viability and coviability?.- 3. Chapter 29 : Landscape dynamics and the control of infectious diseases : The question of the integration of health into coviability.- 4. Chapter 30 : A history of loss in coviability between Nature and Society: the Evolution of Vegetative Landscapes in the Lesser Antilles from the 17th to the 20th century.- 5. Chapter 31 : Territorialized tourism systems and coviability: Theory and lessons learned from a few case studies.- 6. Chapter 32 : Looking for coviability between ecological systems and renewable energy production sites.- 7. Chapter 33 : A mathematical approach to agroecosystem coviability.- 8. Chapter 34 : Computer exploration of factors involved in the viability of a fishery sector (the case of the small-scale fresh fish supply in Senegal at the end of the 20th century).- 9. Chapter 35 : World Heritage List and Tourist Traffic: Towards a coviability ? (The case of scuba diving in the lagoon of New Caledonia).- 10. Chapter 36 : Coviability of the social and ecological systems in Réunion Island's National Park: Climate variability, wildfires, and the vulnerability of biodiversity.- 11. Chapter 37 : Low tech conservation planning strategies for human-coral reefs coviability in a changing world.- 12. Chapter38 : Evolution of the human impact on oceans : Typping points of Socio- Ecological Coviability.- 13. Chapter 39 : Elements of coviability in the agribusiness of palm oil in the Eastern Amazon.- 14. Chapter 40 : Viability of the Babaçu Eco-Sociosystem in Brazil: The Challenges of Coviability.- 15. Chapter 41 : From sustainable development to Coviability The point of view of Earth observation in the area of big data.- 16. Chapter42 : Man and Bees; Can beekeeping be intensively farmed?.- 17. Chapter 43 : General Conclusion: Is Coviability a Myth or a Vital Requirement or the Future of Mankind ?.- 18. Postface : Coviability, the challenge of breaks in founding other relationships betwe…