The Baseline Concept in Biodiversity Conservation (eBook)

Laurent Godet is a CNRS researcher at Nantes University, France. As a biogeographer, his research focuses on anthropization and its impacts on the spatial distribution of biodiversity from local to national scales. Simon Dufour is a research professor at the University of Rennes 2, France. As a geographer, his research focuses on the mapping, dynamics and renaturation of river landscapes. Anne-Julia Rollet is a research professor at the University of Rennes 2, France. As a geographer and hydrogeomorphologist, her research focuses on the physical functioning and management of watercourses. All three are members of the LETG laboratory (UMR 6554).

Part 1. Defining Baselines

1. Temporal Baselines: Finding a Tipping Point in the Past by Laurent Godet, Simon Dufour, Anne-Julia Rollet and Armelle Decaulne

2. Spatial Baselines: Is Going Elsewhere Easier Than Going Back in Time by Anne-Julia Rollet, Simon Dufour and Armelle Decaulne

3. Mapping What is Left of Nature by Laurent Godet and Adrien Geutté

4. The Baseline: A Social Construction by Clémence Moreau, Cécile Barnaud and Raphaël Mathevet

Part 2. Using Baselines to Conserve Nature

5. Rewilding by the Return of Ghosts of the Past by Laurent Godet

6. Spontaneous Rewilding through Land Abandonment by Adrien Guetté and Jonathan Carruthers-Jones

7. Geoprospective: Looking for Potential Scenarios by Thomas Houet

8. The Place of Ecological Knowledge in Policies for Ecological Neutrality: No Net Loss and Biodiversity Offsetting by Coralie Calvet

Part 3. Examples of the Use of Baselines

9. The Variability of Baselines Mobilized in Littoral Protected Areas: The Anthropocene as a Dividing Line? By Vincent Andreu-Boussut and Céline Chadenas

10. Baselines and French Forests by Damien Marage

11. How Can We Maintain Traditional Agro-Pastoral Landscapes? By David Montembault