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Joël Guiot is director of Labex OT-Med and emeritus researcher at CEREGE, Hubert Mazurek is a researcher at LPED, Thomas Curt is a researcher at INRAE, and Patrick Raimbault is a researcher at MIO.
Abstract
The aim of this book is to provide a vision of the environment of the Marseille metropolis that draws on a range of scientific disciplines in support of a socio-economic approach. The book examines the sustainability of Marseilles, seen as an example of a major Mediterranean coastal metropolis. It brings together the views of a range of scientific disciplines as well as professionals from a variety of fields (land management, natural spaces, urban planning, heritage, health, etc.). Developed as part of the LabEx OT-Med, it sets out the current state of knowledge and raises a number of questions with reference to the sustainable development paradigm, despite the criticisms that have been levelled at it. This concept has the advantage of clearly delimiting three dimensions - social, environmental and economic - and of postulating that the analysis of their interactions is essential to account for uncertain situations conditioned by major changes such as climate change. Studying a large city chosen as a 'laboratory' can take advantage of a fertile space in terms of cultural, social, spatial, temporal, institutional and biological diversity from which new ideas can emerge to be tested and evaluated. It is also an opportunity to establish links between scientists and public players, and even more generally between science and society.