This second volume is the work of more than 55 authors from 15 different disciplines and includes complex systems science which studies the viability of components, and also the study of empirical situations. As readers will discover, the coviability of social and ecological systems is based on the contradiction between humanity, which adopts finalized objectives, and the biosphere, which refers to a ecological functions. We see how concrete situations shed light on the coviability’s determinants, and in this book the very nature of the coviability, presented as a concept-paradigm, is defined in a transversal and ontological ways.

By adopting a systemic approach, without advocating any economic dogma (such as development) or dichotomizing between humans and nature, while emphasizing what is relevant to humans and what is not, this work neutrally contextualizes man’s place in the biosphere. It offers a new mode of thinking and positioning of the ecological imperative, and will appeal to all those working with social and ecological systems.

1.Preview.- Chapter 28 : The future of oases in North Africa through the prism of a systemic approach: towards which type of viability and coviability?.- 3. Chapter 29 : Landscape dynamics and the control of infectious diseases : The question of the integration of health into coviability.- 4. Chapter 30 : A history of loss in coviability between Nature and Society: the Evolution of Vegetative Landscapes in the Lesser Antilles from the 17th to the 20^th century.- 5. Chapter 31 : Territorialized tourism systems and coviability: Theory and lessons learned from a few case studies.- 6. Chapter 32 : Looking for coviability between ecological systems and renewable energy production sites.- 7. Chapter 33 : A mathematical approach to agroecosystem coviability.- 8. Chapter 34 : Computer exploration of factors involved in the viability of a fishery sector (the case of the small-scale fresh fish supply in Senegal at the end of the 20th century).- 9. Chapter 35 : World Heritage List and Tourist Traffic: Towards a coviability ? (The case of scuba diving in the lagoon of New Caledonia).- 10. Chapter 36 : Coviability of the social and ecological systems in Réunion Island’s National Park: Climate variability, wildfires, and the vulnerability of biodiversity.- 11. Chapter 37 : Low tech conservation planning strategies for human-coral reefs coviability in a changing world.- 12. Chapter38 : Evolution of the human impact on oceans : Typping points of Socio- Ecological Coviability.- 13. Chapter 39 : Elements of coviability in the agribusiness of palm oil in the Eastern Amazon.- 14. Chapter 40 : Viability of the Babaçu Eco-Sociosystem in Brazil: The Challenges of Coviability.- 15. Chapter 41 : From sustainable development to Coviability The point of view of Earth observation in the area of big data.- 16. Chapter42 : Man and Bees; Can beekeeping be intensively farmed?.- 17. Chapter 43 : General Conclusion: Is Coviability a Myth or a Vital Requirement or the Future of Mankind ?.- 18. Postface : Coviability, the challenge of breaks in founding other relationships between society and nature.