Transversal projects of DRIIHM LabEx > HYDECO Project

Connections, disconnections and reconnections in socio-hydrosystems

The relationship between societies and their hydrosystems can be understood as a series of connections and disconnections that occur in all fields and dimensions. Thus, the use of watercourses or water resources creates material or symbolic connections, development creates physical disconnections (dams) or social disconnections (invisibilized hydrosystems), and recent policies, which emphasize flows between the different elements and compartments of hydrosystems, insist on “reconnection” at all levels.

In this context, the aim of the HYDECO project is to use the variability of the situations proposed by the OHMs to test the effectiveness of the connection/disconnection/reconnection reading grid applied to socio-hydrosystems, and to re-explore the notion of connectivity in a critical and exemplified way.

Our hypothesis is that, beyond the variability of local situations, the trio of relationships appears consistently in the different environments concerned by the 7 OHMs involved, and that it proposes a fertile way of reworking the concept of socio-hydrosystem and its socio-ecological state, emphasizing both socio-cultural evolutions and functional interactions between all their components.

To validate this hypothesis, we will use two common threads that will run through the various tasks: the visible/invisible opposition and the notion of the tipping point. The project is organized into six tasks. The first aims to define the objects of study in their social and historical depth. Tasks 2 to 5 will explore the different dimensions of connections/disconnections/reconnections (vertical, longitudinal, lateral, flow). The final task will organize the project and enable the production of a synthesis book and/or special journal issue highlighting the results obtained.

OHM: OHMi Pima County, OHMi Estarreja, OHMi Nunavik, OHM Pyrénées - haut Vicdessos,  OHM Vallée du Rhône (Rhone valley), OHM Littoral méditerranéen (mediterranean coastal zone), OHM Fessenheim

Project leaders: François-Michel Le Tourneau and David Blanchon

Post-doctoral researcher: Anne-Lise Boyer, EVS CNRS

Researchers: Brigitte Juanals, Jean-Luc Minel, François-Michel Le Tourneau, David Blanchon, Adriana Zuniga-Teran, Anne-Lise Boyer, Hervé Piégay, Michel Lang, Antoine Vernay, Baptiste Marteau, Carole Barthélémy, Olivier Radakovitch, Cybill Staentzel, Dominique Badariotti, Stéphane Ghiotti, Vanina Pasqualini, Frédéric Huneau, Armelle Decaulne, Najat Bhiry, Anne-Julia Rollet, Robin Dupont, Damien Tornes, Camille Burin, Danielle Cloutier, Didier Galop (>end 2023), Gaël Le Roux, Sophia Hansson, Samuel Challéat, Fabienne Wateau, Eduardo Silva, Jean-Philippe Bedell,

Master 1 and 2 students: Louise Biville, Manon Delègue, Coline Clergeau-Laurans, Clément Alix (Univ. Paris-Nanterre), Grégoire Ramé, C. Artigue (EOST-UNISTRA), Linda Chouache (Univ. Reims), Damien Trones, Raphael Ordonneau (Univ. Paris-Nanterre)

French partner institutions: CNRS, INRAe, ENTPE, MNHN, Université Pais-Nanterre, AMU, Université Toulouse, Université de Corse

Foreign partner institutions: University of Tucson (Arizona, USA), University of Aveiro (Portugal), CEN University of Laval (Canada, Quebec), ETS Montreal (Canada).

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Principales publications

Posters:

Anne-Lise Boyer, Brigitte Juanals, Jean-Luc Minel. Drought Awareness: Exploring the forms of partnerships in the process of publicizing drought in the media. WRRC 2024 Annual Conference Implementing Water Solutions Through Partnerships, Mar 2024, Tucson (Arizona ), United States. ⟨halshs-04528713⟩

Anne-Lise Boyer, Brigitte Juanals, Jean-Luc Minel. Analyzing the forms of visibility and invisibility in the process of publicizing drought: Methodological proposals. International Symposium of LabEx DRIIHM 2023, Jun 2023, Strasbourg, France, ⟨10.34972/driihm-294a39⟩. ⟨halshs-04121457⟩

Anne-Lise Boyer. Connections, disconnections and reconnections in socio-hydrosystems: Towards a better integration of the vertical dimension?. 2023 AAG Annual Meeting, Mar 2023, Denver, United States. ⟨10.34972/driihm-d194bb⟩. ⟨hal-04091703⟩

Raphaël Ordonneau, Yaouna Bretaudeau. Invisible pollution and groundwater uses in Estarreja. International Symposium of LabEx DRIIHM 2023, Jun 2023, Strasbourg, France, ⟨10.34972/driihm-0fc2e0⟩. ⟨hal-04171152⟩

Corinne Pardo, Anne-Lise Boyer, Dominique Badariotti, Carole Barthélémy, Jean-Philippe Bedell, et al.. Les Observatoires Hommes-Milieux et le LabEx DRIIHM. PEPR One Water, Jul 2023, Lyon, France. ⟨10.34972/driihm-821985⟩. ⟨hal-04161469⟩

Louise Biville, Coline Clergeau-Laurans, Manon Delègue. What are the vectors of social reconnection to a dried-up urban watershed?. International Symposium of LabEx DRIIHM 2022, Jun 2022, Nantes, France, ⟨10.34972/driihm-2c56c2⟩. ⟨hal-03716552⟩

Clément Alix, Grégoire Ramé. Connection/ Disconnection: Mexican Wastewaters for the American riparian ecosystems. International Symposium of LabEx DRIIHM 2022, Jun 2022, Nantes, France, ⟨10.34972/driihm-0058ee⟩. ⟨hal-03716549⟩

Margenat et al., “Microplastics and potential harmful trace elements (PHTE) as co-pollution in wild brown trout (Salmo trutta) in high mountain”, SECAT 2022

Articles and book chapters:

Anne-Lise Boyer, Brigitte Juanals, Jean-Luc Minel. Débats médiatisés et numériques sur la sécheresse. Le cas des pénuries d’eau dans un climat semi-aride en Arizona. Communiquer : Revue de communication sociale et publique, 2024, 38, http://journals.openedition.org/communiquer/11735. ⟨halshs-04643737⟩

Brian F O'Neill, Anne-Lise Boyer. 'Locking in' Desalination in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Path Dependency, Techno-Optimism and Climate Adaptation. Water alternatives, 2023, 16 (2). ⟨hal-04095595⟩

Anne‐lise Boyer, David Blanchon, Laurent Schmitt, Dominique Badariotti, Jean‐philippe Bedell, et al.. The social connectivity of subsurface flows: Towards a better integration of the vertical dimension in socio‐hydrosystem studies. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2023, e1703, ⟨10.1002/wat2.1703⟩. ⟨halshs-04476429⟩

Anne-Lise Boyer, Pierre Gautreau. La question environnementale dans les Amériques. Laurent Faret; Jean-Yves Piboubès. Géopolitique des Amériques, Nathan, 2022, 9782091674803. ⟨halshs-03789769⟩

Anne-Lise Boyer, Brian O'Neill. Water Conservation in Arizona Desert Cities: A socioecological fix to the oasis lifestyle?. Luttes pour l'eau dans les Amériques : Mésusages, arrangements et changements sociaux, 2022. ⟨hal-03699978⟩

Videos:

Anne-Lise Boyer, Brigitte Juanals, Jean-Luc Minel. Photodocumentaire :La sécheresse et ses solutions en débat. Le cas des pénuries d’eau dans le climat semi-aride en Arizona : http://amupod.univ-amu.fr/video/31246-secheresse-arizona_fr_2024mp4. 2024, ⟨10.60527/7m6q-1453⟩. ⟨halshs-04571672⟩

Anne-Lise Boyer, Brigitte Juanals, Jean-Luc Minel. Debating Drought and Its Solutions. The Case of Water Shortages in Arizona's Semi-Arid Climate. 2024. ⟨halshs-04589242⟩