Cet ouvrage s’adresse à un large lectorat d’ingénieur, de chercheur en sciences de l’environnement, d’acteur de la gouvernance territoriale et politique et de citoyens engagés pour infléchir et ralentir le processus.
The Mediterranean Sea - Mare nostrum - is the melting pot of 22 states that are home to almost 500 million people spread over three continents: Africa, Asia and Europe. Its rich biodiversity (specific flora and fauna) and its historical and cultural heritage make this an atypical area on a global scale.
The Mediterranean area is currently experiencing an acceleration in the process of climate change, which can be seen as a harbinger of global change. The Mediterranean is currently a kind of ‘laboratory’ from which lessons must be learned as quickly as possible.
The alarm has been sounded: the Mediterranean region is currently deteriorating up to 20% faster than other areas. While air and water temperatures are expected to rise by +1 or +2 degrees by the end of the century, projections for the Mediterranean region are between +4 to +5 degrees. This book re-emphasises the urgent need for policies to be geared towards deceleration. The author draws up an exhaustive, well-documented assessment of the issues involved, and offers concrete courses of action to deal with water-related problems, forest management, agriculture, the need for urban areas to evolve, and so on.
A genuine plea for rapid and full awareness at all levels of governance and citizenship, the book reminds us that all the issues are linked: there can be no human health without climatic and environmental health.
Robin Degron, directeur du Plan Bleu (ONU Environnement en Méditerranée), professeur des universités associés à Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne (HDR Géographie), Membre du LADYSS (UMR 7566), magistrat de la Cour des comptes. Il a développé une carrière et une réflexion sur le développement durable, en Europe et en Afrique. Tirant partie de sa triple culture de géographe, d’ingénieur et d’administrateur.
