BOOK REVIEW Serge Morand and Muriel Figuié (eds), 2016, Emergence de maladies infectieuses. Risques et enjeux de société (The emergence of infectious diseases. Societal risks and stakes) Paris, Quae, 136 p Laure Bonnaud 1 & Nicolas Fortané 1 Published online: 10 April 2017 # INRA and Springer-Verlag France 2017 AIDS, SARS, avian influenza, swine influenza, West Nile virus, Ebola, Zika… infec- tious diseases, and pandemic influenza in particular are at the heart of the collective work coordinated by Serge Morand and Muriel Figuié. This book, in French, offers a precious, multidisciplinary introduction to the emergence of diseases affecting public health. Divided into five dense chapters, it sets out the main questions, concepts, and policy instruments relating to the construction of this new global public issue. Given that the majority of emerging diseases are zoonotic (animal transmitted), essentially caused by viruses or bacteria, the book opts for a BOne Health^ framing 1 : it investigates the relationship between human beings, animals, and the environment, particularly the role that animal reservoirs plays in the appearance and extension of human pathologies. It also immediately adopts an international perspective: whilst issues relating to new emerging diseases tend to be examined in the northern countries, they more often than not appear in intertropical zones (Southern and South-Eastern Asia, Central Africa); this is due on the one hand to the rich biodiversity of these zones (both in terms of micro-organisms and species of animals and plants) and on the other to their social and cultural organisation in terms of healthcare, agriculture, and urbanism. So it is not surprising that emerging infectious diseases have given rise to unprecedented interna- tional cooperation and to the development of new tools for managing global health. Rev Agric Food Environ Stud (2017) 98:225–228 DOI 10.1007/s41130-017-0042-9 1 One World One Health is Ba cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary approach that recognises risks at human- animal-ecosystem interfaces^ (Chien 2013, p. 214). * Laure Bonnaud laure.bonnaud@inra.fr Nicolas Fortané nicolas.fortane@inra.fr 1 RiTME, INRA, 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, France