Biodiversity management by stakeholders: from awareness to action.

Summary This book, which brings together contributions from leading scientists, economists, executives and managers, addresses the following two questions through different approaches: - How can we reconcile economic activities and biodiversity? - Is it possible today to make biodiversity management an asset? Beyond simply raising awareness of biodiversity, this guide sheds light on the issues that need to be considered, on biodiversity management approaches at the scale of a product but also of a territory, as well as on certain prospective advances mentioned within ORÉE (integration of biodiversity in the accounting of organizations, complexity of dynamic interactions between human and living systems). More than fifteen case studies conducted by member and partner organizations were collected in order to concretely illustrate the various ways of reconciling biodiversity issues and those of economic activities in the current context. [Extract from the editor's summary].