Sustainability Agenda for the Pantanal Wetland: Perspectives on a Collaborative Interface for Science, Policy, and Decision-Making.

Building bridges between environmental and political agendas is essential nowadays in face of the increasing human pressure on natural environments, including wetlands. Wetlands provide critical ecosystem services for humanity and can generate a considerable direct or indirect income to the local communities. To meet many of the sustainable development goals, we need to move our trajectory from the current environmental destructive development to a wiser wetland use. The current article contain a proposed agenda for the Pantanal aiming the improvement of public policy for conservation in the Pantanal, one of the largest, most diverse, and continuous inland wetland in the world. We suggest and discuss a list of 11 essential interfaces between science, policy, and development in region linked to the proposed agenda. We believe that a functional science network can booster the collaborative capability to generate creative ideas and solutions to address the big challenges faced by the Pantanal wetland

Réflexions du Groupe de travail de la Sociéte française de radioprotection sur l'évolution du système de radioprotection proposée par la CIPR

International audienceThis paper presents the first reflections of the Working Group which was created by the French Society for Radiation Protection (SFRP) on key issues which will be addressed by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) when developing new recommendations on radiological protection. Based on the analysis of the ICRP Memorandum published in the Journal of Radiological Protection in June 2001, and on the experience of the members, the following topics are being considered: - general reflections on the new system proposed by the ICRP, - considerations on individual and collective dimensions of risk management, - comparison with the management of chemical risks, - radiological protection of the environment, - dosimetric units. © 2002 EDP Sciences