
Adrien ComteL’Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
Adrien Comte
PhD
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Introduction
Adrien Comte is an ecological economist, interested in topics at the interface of science and policy. With an interdisciplinary approach, his research focuses on sustainability, ecosystems accounting, and the impacts of global environmental change on social-ecological systems. He is currently working on the development of ecosystem accounts for the marine environment in France and on the development of strong sustainability indices in New-Caledonia. Previously, he conducted research on coral ree
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The development of an ecosystem accounting system to complete current wealth indicators is a core issue. Biophysical ecosystem accounts of the SEEA EA have been adopted as a statistical standard to bridge this gap. However, challenges remain as the specificities of marine ecosystems are poorly considered in the current standard, and link with polic...
The national climate action plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, referred to as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), currently include anthropogenic land-based carbon fluxes but typically exclude open ocean carbon sinks within Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). Here, we utilise a high-resolution global ocean biogeochemical model alongside av...
Conservation of ecosystems is an important tool for climate change mitigation. Seagrasses, mangroves, salt-marshes and other marine ecosystems have particularly high capacities to sequester and store organic carbon (blue carbon), and are being impacted by human activities. Calls have been made to mainstream blue carbon into policies, including carb...
This technical report presents the experimental biophysical marine ecosystems accounts in France in the context of the H2020 MAIA project. The System of Environmental Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) has been adopted as a statistical standard by the UNSD in 2021. However, only few studies have attempted to operationalize it for th...
Background Ocean-related options (OROs) to mitigate and adapt to climate change are receiving increasing attention from practitioners, decision-makers, and researchers. In order to guide future ORO development and implementation, a catalogue of scientific evidence addressing outcomes related to different ORO types is critical. However, until now, s...
Harnessing reliable and relevant information on ecosystems requires focusing and prioritising information acquisition on dimensions of interest. As a boundary object between ecosystem monitoring, research and public decision-making, ecosystem accounting can serve this purpose. We develop an argument in favour of a set of accounts, consistent with t...
Environmental policymakers need to monitor the state of the environment to evaluate the effectiveness of their
actions, prioritize policies, and thus establish their contribution to the conservation of natural capital. The
Environmental Sustainability GAP (ESGAP) is a framework that introduces a synthetic dashboard to monitor the
state of the envir...
To better manage our environment, systematic information is needed on the state of ecosystems and their interactions with society. Efforts have been undertaken to design monitoring and recording systems, notably the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA). However, the diverse conceptualizations and applications on ecosyst...
This report is an output from Europe's MAIA (Mapping and Assessment for Integrated ecosystem Accounting) project. It is available from the MAIA Library webpage, along with lots of great other outputs from the project: https://maiaportal.eu/library
It provides a synthesis of the experiences and lessons learned in using national
biodiversity monito...
Research on methods and applications on the integration of ecosystem services flow accounts into economic reporting systems has increased in the last decades. Along with Natural Capital Accounting (NCA), Ecosystem Accounting (EA) has been increasingly considered and has been integrated into research, policy and decision-making. Following the System...
Climate change is threatening the fisheries on which communities depend. In this issue of One Earth, Ojea et al. describe the impacts of species range shifts and discuss possible adaptation pathways and policy solutions. However, climate change brings multiple threats to fisheries, so framing the discussion on adaptation options is critical.
The development of ecosystem accounting systems at national levels to complete
current wealth indicators with robust information on ecosystem degradation or
enhancement is a crucial challenge, recognized in international strategies. However,
the methodologies remain under development building, at the global level, on an
experimental ecosystem accou...
En novembre 2016, s’est tenue à Toliara, dans le sud-ouest de Madagascar, la deuxième école d’été australe sur la vulnérabilité du patrimoine récifal (EEA VulPaRe). Coorganisée par l’IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement, France) et l’IHSM (Institut halieutique et des sciences marines de l’Université de Toliara, Madagascar), cette format...
Since the 1990s, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has used global assessments of vulnerability to inform investment and action against the effects of climate change. Beyond the IPCC, others have undertaken global assessments to understand the vulnerability of coastal areas to climate change. Eight global vulnerability assessment...
Global environmental change (GEC) in the ocean threatens marine ecosystems and the people who depend on them. A growing scientific effort is attempting to evaluate the impacts of environmental changes on ecosystems and ecosystem services and guide policy-making to respond to this global issue. Focusing on social-ecological systems of coral reefs, t...
Coral reef ecosystems and the people who depend on them are increasingly exposed to the adverse effects of global environmental change (GEC), including increases in sea-surface temperature and ocean acidification. Managers and decision-makers need a better understanding of the options available for action in the face of these changes. We refine a t...
As the environmental issues facing our planet change, scientific efforts need to inform the sustainable management of marine resources by adopting a socio-ecological systems approach. Taking the symposium on “Understanding marine socio-ecological systems: including the human dimension in Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (MSEAS)” as an opportunity w...
Reefs and People at Risk
Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere put shallow, warm-water coral reef ecosystems, and the people who depend upon them at risk from two key global environmental stresses: 1) elevated sea surface temperature (that can cause coral bleaching and related mortality), and 2) ocean acidification. These global str...
Ocean acidification, climate change, and other environmental stressors threaten coral reef ecosystems and the people who depend upon them. New science reveals that these multiple stressors interact and may affect a multitude of physiological and ecological processes in complex ways. The interaction of multiple stressors and ecological complexity ma...
Co-written by sixteen “future leaders”, this interdisciplinary paper is both an account of the debate-seminar “(Un)certainties and Adaptation to Future Climate” (November 2014, Meudon), and a forum for authors to develop certain issues that have emerged during the discussions. This makes it an original work both with regards to the form–to make sev...