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Series EditorFrançoise Gaill
Photovoltaism, Agriculture and Ecology
From Agrivoltaism to Ecovoltaism
Claude Grison
Lucie Cases
Mailys Le Moigne
Martine Hossaert-McKey
First published 2021 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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ISBN 978-1-78630-720-0
Foreword by Yvon Le Maho
This update by Claude Grison, Lucie Cases, Mailys Le Moigne and Martine Hossaert-McKey on how the development of a renewable energy, photovoltaics, could be part of a real ecological transition meets a real need.
Indeed, in view of the two major environmental issues of our time – the fight against climate change and the reduction of biodiversity – we are faced with what appears to be an abuse of language that hides a real divide. What is it about? In the dominant discourse, climate change is associated with an “ecological catastrophe”. Certainly, according to the most probable scenarios, the announced global warming will eventually result in a significant loss of biodiversity. To avoid such an outcome, this implies that we must fight against climate change.
In fact, the seriousness of this prognosis is largely linked to the fact that climate change will weigh on an already weakened biodiversity. For most of the reduction in biodiversity already observed, more than 80% of the decrease in populations of threatened species, according to a recent WWF study, has nothing to do with climate change. Land artificialization, overexploitation of resources, intensive farming and disturbance are the main causes. It is therefore two parallel actions, both fighting against the human factors of climate change, that is, against the increase of greenhouse
