@incollection{fdi:010075398,
  title = {{C}oviability as a scientific paradigm for an ecological transition, from an overview to a definition},
  author = {{B}arri{\`e}re, {O}livier and {L}ibourel, {T}. and {L}oireau, {M}aud and {R}avena {C}anete, {V}. and {P}rost, {C}. and {D}avid, {G}ilbert and {M}orand, {S}. and {P}ascal, {L}. and {D}ouzal, {V}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{C}oviability of {S}ocial and {E}cological {S}ystems: {R}econnecting {M}ankind to the {B}iosphere in an {E}ra of {G}lobal {C}hange comprises two volumes and forty-three chapters totaling about 900 pages. {T}he book is prefaced by an economist and concluded by an ecologist; its postscript is written by a socio-anthropologist. {A} hundred researchers, belonging to more than twenty disciplines, contributed to its development; and this under the direction, in full interdisciplinarity, of twelve co-editors. {B}efore closing the book, it is necessary to clarify the main point, rather than offer an inaccessible summary. {A}t this stage, it is important to identify the significance of this scientific paradigm of coviability, especially in an international context confronted with an ecological imperative. {T}he book seeks to draw from the set of works an initial definition of the paradigm of coviability. {T}his goal's point of departure is the plural definitions and disciplines, the heterogeneous works giving space for reflection. {T}his new paradigm of socio-ecological coviability offers an ecological transition promoted at the global, national and local scales. {A}n integrative paradigm is suggested to counter the dominant naturalistic paradigm. {T}he goal of this paradigm is "living in harmony with nature," that is, creating harmony between humans and nonhumans. {T}he challenge consists of breaking free from a reductive anthropocentrism in order to integrate an ontology open to a socio-ecological dimension, with the goal of reconnecting humanity to the biosphere. {T}he diversity of the situations approached by the different research teams makes it possible to test a definition of socio-ecological coviability that may be: a property of interactive dependence between humans and nonhumans joined in a relationship that is contained by regulations and constraints. {T}his relationship establishes a link of viability subjected to an integration threshold of the complex human/nonhuman system determining the limits of coviability's elasticity, whose realization remains the coevolution in an integrated socio-ecological system. {T}he legal and political formalization of the coviability paradigm is designed to contribute to the ecological transition by establishing a new general {P}rinciple that could reposition the goal of sustainable development in terms of viability.},
  keywords = {},
  booktitle = {{C}oviability of social and ecological systems : reconnecting mankind to the biosphere in an era of global change. {V}ol. 1 : {T}he foundations of a new paradigm},
  numero = {},
  pages = {693--728},
  address = {{C}ham},
  publisher = {{S}pringer},
  series = {},
  year = {2019},
  DOI = {10.1007/978-3-319-78497-7_27},
  ISBN = {978-3-319-78496-0},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010075398},
}