UMR Gestion de l’Eau, Acteurs et Usages (G-EAU)
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Our roots
• From IWRM within irrigated systems to
Adaptive Water Management in
Sociological Hydrological Systems
• Strong ambition on interdisciplinarity
• Finalized research for public policy
support, in Europe and developping
countries
• Trans-disciplinary research (co-design
with stakeholders)
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Inter-disciplinary skills
• 75 permanent staff + 40 PhD
• 25 staff outposted in partner institutions in
developping countries
• Full range of disciplines
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Economics, sociology and policy analysis
Hydro(geo)logy and hydraulics
Agronomy
Method for inter-trans-disciplinarity: complex
system modelling and simulation, integrated
assessment, participatory research
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Common focus:
Adaptive Management of Social Hydrological Systems
• Identification of
dynamics driving
social hydrological
systems
• Simulation of
possible pathways
• Soft and hard
infrastructures to
drive changes
Main research issues
• Characterize co-evolution water-society
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Diversity of viewpoints
Technical change in water uses,
Consequences of changes in land cover and land use on water fluxes,
Consequences of water transfers on power relations,
• Regulation of water availability, quality and uses
• Hard infrastructures for a control on fluxes
• Public policies for economic and social control on uses
• Monitoring equipment: observation, collecting and sharing information
• Methods for analysis and evaluation
• Indicators to inform trade offs and negotiation
• Participatory processes and water management
• Simulation of possible changes in experimental setting
 Towards new knowledge, new methods AND decision support
Partnership
• locally: IM2E
• Involvement with structuring partners in the South
• International networks
• ICID
• Resilience Alliance
• Water related Businesses and public bodies
European Side
• Structuring partnerships with public bodies
• « Syndicats mixtes » ie. association of local governments with a specific
focus
• Urban communities
• River Basin agencies
• Long term places of investigation
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Lavalette, Crau
Drôme
Bassin de Thau
Côteaux de Gascogne
Beauce
• With evolution thanks to project opportunities
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Seine
Petite Camargue
Bretagne
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South of Mediterranée
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Méditerranean basin: innovation in irrigated agricultures and co-evolution
water-society in arid areas
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Western Africa: adaptive management of hydrosystems, co-evolution watersociety
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Mozambique: 1, Afrique du Sud: 1
University of Praetoria and University of Maputo
South east Asia: environmental evaluation, socio-technical dynamics
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Guinea/Mali: 2, Sénégal: 3
Southern Africa: water economics and governance in fast changing
environment
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Maroc: 3, Tunisie: 4
SIRMA + SICMED.
Thailand 2
Project based partnership
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Eastern Africa
Brazil
G-EAU :
an inter/trans disciplinary research group to
understand and improve adaptation
capacities in social hydrological systems
• Plurality of viewpoints
• In term of discipline, objective in relation to water…
• Consistency in research obect
• Time horizon: management
• Spatial scale: managed area
• Consistency in methods
• Rooted in field work
• Use of modelling
• Integration of heterogeneous sources of knowledge
• Cosistency of analysis
• Justice and resilience issues
• Contribution of water to meet a set of needs within a community
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