Ordinary areas are a home to biodiversity and provide ecosystem services. Moreover, they are an important part of the experience on which individuals anchor their appreciation and being in the world. Urbanization deeply modifies individuals’ everyday relations with their environment. The relationship to these human-shaped areas leads to suggest the hypothesis of a growing disconnect between people and nature. This thesis studies the attention to biodiversity in the daily lives of individuals. Attention is structured around cognitive, emotional and behavioral elements. How the experience of biodiversity in an everyday-life context influences individuals’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards biodiversity and conservation. A first quantitative work revealed a link between individuals' knowledge on biodiversity and the implementation of practices favorable to biodiversity. We have shown the importance of embodied knowledge in daily reality. We have shown that contact with nature on a daily basis can encourage both knowledge and practices to biodiversity. The study of the impact - both in the short and medium term – of a single individual experience (days of events in public parks in Paris) revealed a gap between the increased interest in biodiversity and its inclusion in future individual practices. The study of the consequences – in the medium and long term – of a repeated individual experience to biodiversity (participation in a citizen science program) showed an evolution of knowledge and practices favorable to biodiversity. Our results show that individuals’ attention to biodiversity is encouraged under three conditions: implementation/participation in a local context, direct interaction and knowledge transfer. The context of everyday life appears as an interesting framework since it enables the integration of the observation experience in the complexity of individual approaches (cognitive, affective) and the introduction of biodiversity as an element of ordinary lives of individuals.

"These guidelines have been produced to supplement as an addition to the FAO Technical Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries no. 4, Suppl. 2 entitled Fisheries management".

The Social Movements Reader is an extensive collection of the key classic and contemporary readings on the origins, organization, dynamics, and effects of social movements. Contains 33 concise essays by leading scholars on the origins, organizations, influences, and development of social movements. Collects both classic and contemporary readings on social movements. Provides several case studies including articles on labor, civil rights, women, the environment, religion, and politics. Includes editorial introductions, chronologies, and definitions of key terms to give further insight and direction.

Innovate Bristol highlights and celebrates those companies and individuals that are actively working at building a better tomorrow for all. Innovation Ecosystems thrive through the involvement and support of companies and individuals from all industries, which is why the Innovate series not only focuses on the innovators but also those people whom the Innovation Ecosystem, would not be able to thrive without.

What accounts for the persistence and spread of "commoning," the irrepressible desire of people to collaborate and share to meet everyday needs? How are the more successful projects governed? And why are so many people embracing the commons as a powerful strategy for building a fair, humane and Earth-respecting social order? In more than fifty original essays, Patterns of Commoning addresses these questions and probes the inner complexities of this timeless social paradigm. The book surveys some of the most notable, inspiring commons around the world, from alternative currencies and open design and manufacturing, to centuries-old community forests and co-learning commons - and dozens of others. David Bollier (www.bollier.org) is an American author, activist and independent scholar who has studied the commons for nearly twenty years. Silke Helfrich (commonsblog.wordpress.com) is a German author and independent activist of the commons who blogs at www.commonsblog.de, and cofounder of the Commons-Institut in Germany. With Michel Bauwens, Bollier and Helfrich are cofounders of the Common Strategies Group. For more information, go to the book's website, Patterns of Commoning (www.patternsofcommoning.org)