Biodiversity in the Global South: Research for a Sustainable World

INTRODUCTION 

Designed to reach the widest possible audience, this volume showcases some of the research projects that best illustrate the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)’s commitment to biodiversity and sustainable development. Among today’s many pressing environmental challenges, protecting biodiversity is probably one of the most complex, since it cannot be understood independently of its interactions with the human societies that live with it, use it, manage it, destroy it, and, occasionally, protect it. As the examples contained herein demonstrate, biodiversity can no longer be confined by narrow academic boundaries. On the contrary, it is a subject inextricably linked to all the major dynamics—human and non-human—that shape the global and local changes we currently face. In this respect, this volume stands as a testament to the commitment demonstrated by IRD and its partners to a vision of scientific endeavor that yields tangible, actionable knowledge for the Global South—sustainability science in the strongest sense of the term—enabling our planet and its biodiversity to thrive in the long term.

SUMMARY

1 - New tools for studying biodiversity

2 - Protecting biodiversity

3 - Biodiversity and health

4 - Biodiversity to feed the world

FEATURES

Publisher: IRD Editions

Author: Various Authors

Publication date: December 15, 2020