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Abstract Humans strove for generations to create a world without large predators. By doing so they changed the rule of the evolutionary game played for over 400 million years. Can this be without consequences on ecological networks and on the fabric of …

Abstract Species distribution changes associated with human-mediated climate change have important consequences on ecosystems and human well-being. Despite mounting evidence, our knowledge of biodiversity redistribution is still incomplete with only 0.6% …

Abstract This lecture will introduce the concept of nature's contributions to human populations, or ecosystem services. It will show how functional ecology approaches enable ecosystem services to be quantified on the basis of biodiversity. These …

Abstract Disturbance regimes such as fire are key drivers of biodiversity, structuring habitats and shaping species assemblages. Fire regimes are rapidly changing due to climate warming, land-use shifts, and long-term suppression policies. Altered fire …

Abstract Recent satellite imagery has achieved the capability to accurately characterize vegetated surfaces at high temporal and spatial resolution, but standard satellite products often fail to capture the complex, fragmented, and heterogeneous spatial …

Abstract Sustainable development is often trapped in rigid social and ecological processes that drive environmental degradation and entrench poverty and marginalisation, leaving societies ill-prepared for accelerating environmental and technological …

Abstract Adaptation to climate change is not just about natural processes or human decisions alone: it emerges from the many relationships among people, within ecosystems, and between society and nature. Around the globe, societies respond in different …

Abstract This lecture evokes the birth of the prehistoric sciences in the middle of the XIX th century, centered on the colorful figure of Jacques Boucher de Perthes : amateur archaeologist and prolific author, an inventive mind with a vivid imagination, …

Abstract In the first lecture the issue of changing biblical interpretation in the South African context since the 1990s when Nelson Mandela was released and the ANC party unbanned, and since 1994 when the first democratic post-apartheid elections were …

Jens Beckert is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Pierre-Michel Menger. Abstract For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain …