Pauline Palmas

My research is in the field of sustainability science. Ecosystems and the services they provide are under threat from human activities, while human populations depend on them in both material and immaterial terms. This observation is all the more valid in the regions of the South, and in the Pacific, where the living conditions of the inhabitants are particularly linked to the health of the ecosystems. In their past movements in Oceania, humans have displaced numerous species (biological baggage), resulting in islands that have been multi-invaded at various times. These islands, with their multi-invasion situations, both contrasting and diachronic, are systems for studying the impact of these species on the environment through the prism of the perceptions and uses of these species by the indigenous populations. I am currently working on these issues in two French overseas territories, French Polynesia and New Caledonia.