{"id":15017,"date":"2021-01-19T14:56:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondationbiodiversite.fr\/actualite\/frb-cesab-newsletter-cesab-janvier-2021\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:05:02","slug":"frb-cesab-newsletter-cesab-janvier-2021","status":"publish","type":"actualite","link":"https:\/\/www.fondationbiodiversite.fr\/en\/actualite\/frb-cesab-newsletter-cesab-janvier-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"[FRB-CESAB] Newsletter 4 CESAB &#8211; January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><b>A WORD FROM THE NEW FRB&#8217;S PRESIDENT: DENIS COUVET<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 20px;\"><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13290 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondationbiodiversite.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FRB-Denis-Couvet-HD-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"FRB-Denis-Couvet-HD\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fondationbiodiversite.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FRB-Denis-Couvet-HD-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fondationbiodiversite.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FRB-Denis-Couvet-HD.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><em>Denis Couvet<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>The French Foundation for Biodiversity Research&#8217;s ambition is to better understand the dynamics of biodiversity, in interaction with those of societies. Its vocation is to build, with all actors, public and private, civil society, approaches based on nature and therefore biodiversity. Another main concern is to know how to anticipate the impacts, opportunities and unexpected effects&#8230; of these approaches, in an integrative and systemic framework.\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>The synthesis center created by the FRB, CESAB, is a tool of excellence to meet these different objectives.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<em>By bringing together the best international scientific teams around scientific synthesis, combining data, models and concepts, the work of CESAB should enable us to better understand the functioning of biodiversity, its state and its dynamics, from local to global scales. By shedding some light on the organization of ecological systems and socio-ecosystems, CESAB should help us address the complexity of these systems and the conditions of their resilience.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><em>For the coming year, I hope that the FRB&#8217;s team, which I have had the honor of chairing since January 1, and the scientific community will be able to work collectively on ambitious developments and exciting actions.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><i>Denis Couvet,<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>President of the French Foundation for Biodiversity Research<\/i><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The FRB-CESAB team&#8217;s would like to collectively thank Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Silvain, president of the FRB for the last 7 years. His contribution to the CESAB was invaluable and we will miss his insight and guidance.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"bt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationbiodiversite.fr\/en\/about-the-foundation\/le-cesab\/\">More information about CESAB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12142,"template":"","sujet_publi":[233],"sources":[90,57],"type_actu":[93],"angle":[],"class_list":["post-15017","actualite","type-actualite","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sujet_publi-la-fondation","sources-cesab-en","sources-frb-en","type_actu-actualite-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[FRB-CESAB] Newsletter 4 CESAB - January 2021 - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversit\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationbiodiversite.fr\/en\/actualite\/frb-cesab-newsletter-cesab-janvier-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[FRB-CESAB] Newsletter 4 CESAB - January 2021 - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversit\u00e9\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A WORD FROM THE NEW FRB&#8217;S PRESIDENT: DENIS COUVET &nbsp; Denis Couvet The French Foundation for Biodiversity Research&#8217;s ambition is to better understand the dynamics of biodiversity, in interaction with those of societies. 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