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A living world: biodiversity histories

This collection of 19 short films shows the point of views of 6 different researchers about the biodiversity and its stakes. Life has the capacity to be autonomous and to repair itself, and also to dismantle and disappear.

A living world: biodiversity histories
Which are the causes of the mass extinctions? How much does nature cost? How can the decrease of environment diversity be avoided? An ecologist, a paleontologist, a biologist but also an economist, an ethnologist and a philosopher enlighten us. Each interrogates the complex link between man and nature.
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Interviewed in the Montpellier botanical garden (France), Yldiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, an ethnologist from the Montpellier Center for Functional and Evolving Ecology, evokes in this short film the social sciences interest in the connections between society and nature. Man has always transformed nature to appropriate it and to domestic it. These reciprocal links boost the construction of the civilizations history and of our identity.

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Mankind and Nature, the same history?
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Society has a growing interest in the economic value of services given by Nature. Facing this demand, getting stronger and stronger, evaluation tools have been developed. Jean-Michel Salles, an economist of the environment at the Montpellier Laboratory for theorical and applied economy, describes in this short film the main methods which allow to estimate the price of Nature.

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How Much Is Nature?

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