La gestion du manque d'eau structurel et des sécheresses en France

Erdlenbruch, Katrin; Loubier, S.; Montginoul, Marielle; Morardet, Sylvie; Lefebvre, Marianne

doi:10.3917/set.011.0078

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“…As part of the application of the WFD and the 2006 Water Act, the Ministry of the Environment published two governmental instructions in 2008 and 2010 that established the SWR. It relies on four main steps and two regulatory policy instruments (Erdlenbruch et al, 2013).…”

Section: Sustainable Withdrawal Reform In the Rhône-mediterranean Hydrographic Districtmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Authorization is required for a withdrawal capacity over 8 m 3 /h (rather than 1,000 m 3 /h). New withdrawals are not permitted until water needs and resources are balanced, and water fees in WAZs can be increased up to 50% (Erdlenbruch et al, 2013). Furthermore, temporary water-use permits (with a simplified administrative procedure and a validity of 1 year) are discontinued, and multi-annual water licences are required (3-15 years).…”

Section: Sustainable Withdrawal Reform In the Rhône-mediterranean Hydrographic Districtmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reducing water withdrawals: the negotiation and implementation of environmental policy in the Durance River Basin, France

2020

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Many parts of Europe are facing an increased risk of water scarcity and a potentially disastrous impact on freshwater ecosystems. In line with the Water Framework Directive and the 2006 Water Act, France developed the Sustainable Withdrawals Reform (SWR) in 2008, which aimed to restore a balance between the available water resources and people's needs across the country by 2017. While the literature has generally focused on the economics of e-flow policy instruments, few studies have analysed the politics of their implementation at the local level or how local interests and strategies influence the process. Inspired by the political sociology of policy instruments, and based on in-depth case studies in two catchments of the Durance River Basin (in southeast France), we argue that in order to achieve e-flows in such catchments, the SWR eventually encouraged new capital-intensive water transfers. Beyond their technical aspects, these infrastructure projects engender new hydro-social configurations by modifying irrigation technology and agricultural practices, as well as the spatial control of water. The impact of these projects on the environment remains uncertain. The discussion focuses on the role of key intermediaries and shows how the framing of negotiations leads certain stakeholders and issues to be excluded from the implementation process.

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Section: Sustainable Withdrawal Reform In the Rhône-mediterranean Hydrographic Districtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sustainable Withdrawal Reform In the Rhône-mediterranean Hydrographic Districtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reducing water withdrawals: the negotiation and implementation of environmental policy in the Durance River Basin, France

2020

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“…In agricultural areas, droughts occur when low rainfall coincides with low water stocks (in water bodies and soils) and high crop water needs [70,71]. Recurring droughts reveal that water demand structurally exceeds water supply.…”

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“…In many watersheds, mainly in southwestern France, this quota is much lower than the water withdrawn in past dry years, which encourages (or should encourage) farmers to rethink their farming systems, in the short or longer term. These changes contribute to profound changes in water management and governance promoted by several authors [71,75,77], which should include rethinking the approach ("participatory", "prospective", "integrated", "adaptive", etc.) and the orientation ("demand management", "agroecological practices", "locally-adapted cropping systems", etc.…”

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How to Address the Sustainability Transition of Farming Systems? A Conceptual Framework to Organize Research

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Stakeholders from academic, political, and social spheres encourage the development of more sustainable forms of agriculture. Given its scale and scope, the sustainability transition is a challenge to the entire agricultural sector. The main question is, how to support the transition process? In this article, we explore how agricultural science can address the sustainability transition of farming systems to understand and support transition processes. We discuss the potential for articulating three research approaches: comprehensive analysis, co-design, and simulation modeling. Comprehensive analysis of the sustainability transition provides perspectives on the interplay between resources, resource management, and related performances of farming systems on the one hand and technical, economic, and sociocultural dimensions of change on the other. Co-design of the sustainability transition stimulates local-scale transition experiments in the real world and identification of alternatives for change. Simulation modeling explores future-oriented scenarios of management at multiple levels and assesses their impacts. We illustrate the articulation of research approaches with two examples of research applied to agricultural water management and autonomy in crop-livestock systems. The resulting conceptual framework is the first one developed to organize research to understand and support the sustainability transition of farming systems.

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“…The database of indicator profiles was developed by implementing steps 1 and 2 described above national and European policies advocate for more structural management options (Erdlenbruch et al, 2013), we created a set of potential indicators to assess contrasting water management options and encourage public debate over future water management in the Aveyron watershed. Because the topic of agricultural water management is complex and prone to conflict in the area, undertaking the sustainability assessment of different scenarios challenges both our ability to represent the socialecological processes at stake and create the conditions for dialogue between stakeholders.…”

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Spatial aggregation of indicators in sustainability assessments: Descriptive and normative claims

Plumecocq

Allain

2018

Land Use Policy

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Indicators are widely used in sustainability assessments. They serve both a descriptive function (i.e.., assessing a situation or effects of potential changes) and a normative function (i.e., allowing the expression of value judgments). These functions are usually considered when identifying and using indicators. However, processes such as formalization, estimation, and customization are needed to produce tangible indicators. These processes and their influence on sustainability assessments are studied less often. We focus on spatial aggregation, a specific type of customization commonly used for landscape-scale and regional assessments. Using a database with 146 indicator profiles for water management, we investigated reasons for spatial aggregation choices, i.e. whether indicators based on spatially-explicit data are aggregated while under development or are provided to users in a disaggregated form. Although the literature assigns a descriptive function to spatial aggregation, our database shows that reasons underlying aggregation choices are more diverse.These reasons include highlighting differences, fitting to the scale of a process, fitting to criteria, recognizing a lack of knowledge, expressing social rationality, contextualizing information, and allowing different interpretations of the same indicator. Some of these reasons reflect the choice to expand or reduce the range of potential uses of an indicator, and therefore the potential for different viewpoints to confront each other. Hence, normative claims combine with descriptive claims when aggregating indicators, and even more so when customizing them. In general, the form of indicators merits more attention in the practice and theory of sustainability assessments. Highlights• Indicators are viewed as objects to describe and debate a situation.• Indicators result from different information processes that are sometimes "hidden".• The process of spatial aggregation is investigated.• Spatial aggregation choices provide a degree of leeway in interpreting indicators.• Choices illustrate tension between the need for consistency and that for diversity.

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La gestion du manque d'eau structurel et des sécheresses en France

Cited by 16 publications

References 2 publications

Reducing water withdrawals: the negotiation and implementation of environmental policy in the Durance River Basin, France

Reducing water withdrawals: the negotiation and implementation of environmental policy in the Durance River Basin, France

How to Address the Sustainability Transition of Farming Systems? A Conceptual Framework to Organize Research

Spatial aggregation of indicators in sustainability assessments: Descriptive and normative claims

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