Pesticide upsurge, cross-contamination and biodiversity: case studies from the Caribbean Coast Human-Environment Observatory

Similar to many small islands within the Wider Caribbean Region, the French West Indies are rich but fragile island ecosystems threatened by global warming, pollutants and other anthropic pressures. To understand integrated and complex human impacts on the environment, the Caribbean Coast Human-Envi...

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Published inComptes rendus. Geoscience Vol. 356; no. S3; pp. 1 - 22
Main Authors Hervé, Vincent, Sabatier, Pierre, Lambourdière, Josie, Raymond, Richard, Foulquier, Eric, Le Berre, Iwan, Lopez, Pascal Jean
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Académie des sciences (Paris) 2024
Subjects
Environmental Sciences
Coastal transition zone
Chlordecone
Interdisciplinarity
Biodiversity
Glyphosate
Human-environment observatory
Sargassum
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Summary:Similar to many small islands within the Wider Caribbean Region, the French West Indies are rich but fragile island ecosystems threatened by global warming, pollutants and other anthropic pressures. To understand integrated and complex human impacts on the environment, the Caribbean Coast Human-Environment Observatory (OHM) is developing disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies related to the local-scale driving factors that affect the coastal evolution in Guadeloupe. We present here results that show the multiple causalities, causal asymmetries, and equifinality of environmental pollution related to chlordecone, glyphosate, arsenic and Sargassum and highlight the need to bring further knowledge and awareness to the local populations on these concerns.
ISSN:1778-7025
1631-0713
1778-7025
DOI:10.5802/crgeos.236