Ordinary Biodiversity, Local Stakeholders and Forest Management as a Driver for Regional Sustainable Development

Hervé Brédif (1) , Laurent Simon (1)

1 LADYSS - Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces

The protection of biodiversity which had long been bounded up with emblematic "natural" spaces is now increasingly focusing on ordinary biodiversity and rural agricultural land and forests as well as on urban and peri-urban spaces. Such ordinary biodiversity has its own specific features which make it both a relative and uncertain topic of research. Traditional nature protection instruments do not work on this dimension of the planet's living tissue and new tools need to be deployed in conjunction with regional and local stakeholders that will provide long-term sustainable solutions for biodiversity and for local and regional development more generally. Research conducted on the Plateau de Millevaches explores the possibilities for shared caring for this biodiversity.

Mots clés: Biodiversity Conservation; Forest; Stakeholder Participation; Decision Making

Domaines: Etudes de l'environnement; Biodiversité et Ecologie; Environnement et Société; Sylviculture, foresterie

Hervé Brédif, Laurent Simon. Ordinary Biodiversity, Local Stakeholders and Forest Management as a Driver for Regional Sustainable Development. Open Journal of Forestry, 2014, 4 (3), pp.249-258. ⟨10.4236/ojf.2014.43032⟩. ⟨halshs-01009024⟩