Biodiversity conservation: ethics, threats, restoration

This EU is an initial approach to conservation science from the perspectives of different stakeholders:

- scientific approach: fundamental and practical approach to the conservation and restoration of populations and communities

- Societal approach : the role of scientists in managing species and ecological environments, and interactions with other conservation stakeholders (managers, local actors)

- Ethical approach : reflection on the values of biodiversity (quantifiable, preferential, normative) and their applications according to different models, placed in a historical context (mainly ecosystem services and sustainable development).

- No prerequisites in terms of course validation, but students must have completed the compulsory general ecology and evolutionary ecology courses in L2 and L3S5.

Responsible(s): Christophe Petit and Franck Richard

Contact details of the person(s) in charge (phone/email): christophe.petit @ umontpellier.fr, franck.richard @ umontpellier.fr 

- Understand the applications of organismal biology, evolutionary biology, and ecology (health, agronomy, conservation, restoration)

- Understand the process of knowledge formation in different disciplines (hypotheses, experimental results, controversial findings, mathematical theorems, scientific facts)

- Know how to search for and extract information critically, prioritize information sources and identify their reliability, and synthesize them.

- Ability to successfully complete a project within a group

- Be able to develop a logical argument with a critical mind (limitations, comparison with the literature, defense of a point of view)