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Hydrosystems strongly interact with society in terms of natural resource management, water quality/quantity management, or natural risks. During recent decades, population increase and economic growth, notably in flatter regions, have strengthened the tensions between hydrosystem functions and land planning. As a result, the importance of human impacts on hydrosystem functions and increases in hydrological risks are now widely recognised. The development of laws and policy tools to improve land and catchment planning in order to protect the natural functions and quality of hydrosystems has been one of the responses associated with solving these problems. In this context, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) of the European Union is heading and driving the national laws for European State Members. The aim of the WFD is to set a common standard in terms of quality and quantity objectives for physical, chemical and biological hydrosystem parameters. These objectives have to be implemented through an appropriate management plan and applied to every water body/water mass unit such as rivers, lakes and groundwater. These WFD objectives are challenging for a number of European countries that have highly inspired the WFD foundations from their own water management policies and tools.
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Contributors 5-8
Acknowledgements 8
Introduction:
GILLES ARNAUD-FASSETTA, ERIC MASSON and EMMANUEL REYNARD: The Water Framework Directive, a scientific challenge for the geography of European hydrosystems 9-10
Section 1
River basin management, achieving good status of hydrosystems and geographical sciences
1 OLIVIER GRAEFE: The river basin as a territorial water management unit – Towards post-political water management 11-16
2 SABINE FOUREL, ÉRIC CHALAUX, LOÏCK GUESDON, EMMANUELLE LUCAS, GABRIEL MELUN, GILLES ARNAUD-FASSETTA and MONIQUE FORT:
The SYAGE approach (for water and sewage management organisation of the Yerres catchment, France): restoring the watercourse ecological continuity.
Feedback from the implementation of a partnership between local authorities and University of Paris-Diderot 17-26
3 DOV CORENBLIT, MONIQUE FORT, GILLES ARNAUD-FASSETTA, GABRIEL MELUN, JULIEN DOUSSEAU, YUSUKE UEMURA and JOHANNES STEIGER:
Toward a functional compromise between society and Mediterranean fluvial hydrosystems in France? 27-36
4 PIERRE SERRAT, SÉBASTIEN DURAND, NATACHA SALLES and WOLFGANG LUDWIG:
Water uses in the Segre catchment: history and impact of European legislation (Water Framework Directive) on the management of a Pyrenean transboundary hydrosystem (France, Spain) 37-46
5 FABIEN HOBLÉA, MARC DZIKOWSKI, GÉRARD NICOUD and GRÉGORY TISSIER:
Karst waters vs. French Water Policy and Directive 2000/60/EC: how to reconcile standardisation and peculiarity? 47-57
6 ÉRIC MASSON, OLIVIER BLANPAIN, YAMINE BOUZEMBRAK, GILLES GONCALVES and HAMID ALLOUI:
European Water Framework Directive objectives and polluted waterway sediments in Nord-Pas-de-Calais region (France) 59-69
7 LAURENT LESPEZ, VINCENT VIEL, JEAN-MICHEL CADOR, MARIE-ANNE GERMAINE, CÉCILE GERMAIN-VALLÉE, ANNE-JULIA ROLLET and DANIEL DELAHAYE:
Environmental dynamics of small rivers in Normandy (western France) since the Neolithic era. What lessons for today in the context of the European Water Framework Directive? 71-86
Section 2
Water laws, hydrological/sediment transfers and integrated approaches to risk management
8 DAVID LORION:
From a utopia of security to the integrated management of drainage basins: the example of Reunion Island (France) 87-98
9 FRANCISCO DA SILVA COSTA, ANDRÉA MARQUES, GILLES ARNAUD-FASSETTA, JOAQUIM ALONSO, IVONE MARTINS and CARLOS GUERRA:
Methodological deepening for flood-risk analysis in cross-border regions: a case study for the Lima catchment (NW Spain/Portugal) according to the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive 99-112
10 VINCENT VIEL, ANNE-JULIA ROLLET, DANIEL DELAHAYE, LAURENT LESPEZ and JEAN-MICHEL CADOR:
Creation of an observatory of sediment transfers in Lower Normandy hydrosystems (western France) in the context of the European Water Framework Directive application 113-124
11 GABRIEL MELUN, GILLES ARNAUD-FASSETTA, MONIQUE FORT, ÉRIC CHALAUX, OLIVIER DELECLUSE, SABINE FOUREL, LOÏCK GUESDON, EMMANUELLE LUCAS and EMMANUELLE NIETO:
Hydromorphological impacts of continuity restoration at the reachscale. Example of the Suzanne reach, tributary of the Yerres River, Seine catchment, France 125-136
12 JEANNINE CORBONNOIS, ANNE-JULIA ROLLET, VINCENT VIEL and ANNAELLE HONORÉ:
The European Water Framework Directive, hydraulic structures and bed erosion in the Huisne River (France) 137-148
13 CLAIRE LANG-DELUS, VINCENT FISTER, DIDIER FRANÇOIS, EMMANUEL GILLE and GILLES DROGUE:
Estimation of low-flow indices as a basic requirement of the Water Framework Directive: Contribution of geographical sciences in low-flow prediction 149-157
14 LILIANA ZAHARIA and GABRIELA IOANA-TOROIMAC:
Romanian Danube River management: Impacts and perspectives 159-170
Section 3
Institutional management of water use and participation
15 STUART N. LANE:
Working with controversies in hydrology and hydraulic science 171-181
16 STÉPHANIE DE CARRARA and YVES-FRANÇOIS LE LAY:
What role for local water uses in the French legal system? The example of the Dombes region (Rhône-Alpes, France) 183-192
17 ÉLODIE MAGNIER:
Artificial snow and water uses in mountain tourist resorts. The Dranse-de-Sous-Saix catchment area (Haute-Savoie, France) 193-204
18 HERVÉ DAVODEAU, RÉGIS BARRAUD, NATHALIE CARCAUD, DAVID MONTEMBAULT and CLAIRE PORDOY:
River groynes along the Armorican Loire River (France): river responses and local resident reactions. A sociogeographical landscape reading as a complement for ecological engineering 205-219
19 NICOLAS ROLLO, RÉGIS BARRAUD und ÉTIENNE CHAUVEAU:
Socio-spatial stakes when implementing footpath easements: the case of the Erdre River banks (France) 221-232
20 RÉGIS BARRAUD and MARIE-ANNE GERMAINE:
Defining and achieving good water status: expert rule versus local participation. Case studies on dam removal in western France 233-245
21 RÉMI SCHWEIZER and PETER KNOEPFEL:
The impacts of public policies on self-organised resource governance: the case of irrigation in Valais (Switzerland) 247-259
Section 4
Fundamental geographical research applied to hydrosystem management
22 GABRIELA IOANA-TOROIMAC, GABRIEL MINEA, LILIANA ZAHARIA, RAZVAN ZAREA and MIHAELA BORCAN:
Hydrogeomorphological river typology in the Ialomita and Buzau catchments (Romania) 261-272
23 FLORENCE SALIT, GÉRARD BELTRANDO and LILIANA ZAHARIA:
From the impact of the July 2005 flood to river management: study case of the lower Siret River (Romania) 273-279
24 LAETITIA LAIGRE, EMMANUEL REYNARD and GILLES ARNAUD-FASSETTA:
Multimethods approach for characterising the fluvial dynamics in Alpine floodplains: a tool for the Swiss Rhône River management? 281-292
25 BENOÎT MAILLARD, DAVID THELER and EMMANUEL REYNARD:
Typology of torrential systems in the Hérens valley (Valais, Switzerland), a river-management support 293-303
26 VINCENT FISTER:
Vulnerability mapping of limestone aquifers in low plateaus (North-East France) 305-312
27 ALAIN DEVOS, CHRISTELLE SOSSON, OLIVIER LEJEUNE, LAURENT CHALUMEAU and EDITH I. B. CHOPIN:
The role of aquifer geomorphological context on exchange modes between water tables and rivers in the limestone plateaus of Eastern France 313-322
28 GABRIELA WERREN:
Mapping institutional vulnerability. A case study in Beni Mellal, Morocco. A possible application in Europe? 323-323
Conclusions:
ERIC MASSON, GILLES ARNAUD-FASSETTA and EMMANUEL REYNARD:
Geographical research into hydrosystems – The challenges for 2027
Introduction:
The Water Framework Directive, a scientific challenge for the geography of European hydrosystems
The International Conference on Continental hydrosystems and European territories facing different water laws was held in Sion (Valais, Switzerland) from the 11th to the 13th July 2011. It was organised by the Continental Hydrosystems Commission of the French National Committee of Geography (CNFG-CHC) and the Institute of Geography of the University of Lausanne (IGUL; now Institute of Geography and Sustainability, IGD). This event was supported by the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG), the French Group of Geomorphology (GFG), the Swiss Geomorphological Society (SGS), the Swiss Association of Geography (SAG), the Swiss Commission of Hydrology (CHy), the University Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), the Laboratory of Physical Geography in Meudon (LGP, UMR 8591 CNRS), the University Lille North-of-France (ULNF, Lille 1 Sciences and Technologies), the Territories-Cities-Environment-Society Laboratory (TVES, EA 4477), and the Canton of Valais (Rhône 3 project). The organisating committee comprised GILLES ARNAUD-FASSETTA (Professor of geography – University of Paris-Diderot/LGP/PRODIG), president of the CNFG-CHC, ERIC MASSON (Associate Professor of geography – ULNF/TVES), secretary of the CNFG-CHC, and EMMANUEL REYNARD (Professor of geography – University of Lausanne). The scientific conference secretary was LAETITIA LAIGRE (Ph.D. student in geography – University of Lausanne).
Conference objectives and topics
Hydrosystems strongly interact with society in terms of natural resource management, water quality/quantity management, or natural risks. During recent decades, population increase and economic growth, notably in flatter regions, have strengthened the tensions between hydrosystem functions and land planning. As a result, the importance of human impacts on hydrosystem functions and increases in hydrological risks are now widely recognised. The development of laws and policy tools to improve land and catchment planning in order to protect the natural functions and quality of hydrosystems has been one of the responses associated with solving these problems.
In this context, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) of the European Union is heading and driving the national laws for European State Members. The aim of the WFD is to set a common standard in terms of quality and quantity objectives for physical, chemical and biological hydrosystem parameters. These objectives have to be implemented through an appropriate management plan and applied to every water body/water mass unit such as rivers, lakes and groundwater. These WFD objectives are challenging for a number of European countries that have highly inspired the WFD foundations from their own water management policies and tools.
With a view to the first WFD milestone (2015), the Sion conference was an opportunity to draw attention to ongoing geographical research and research findings in relation to continental hydrosystems, European territories and water laws. Most communications focused on French and Swiss hydrosystems, but some very good cases from Portugal, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom gave a European overview to the meeting’s primary focus. Swiss water policy also inspired reflections upon the WFD and provided additional scientific perspectives on hydrosystem research and water resource management in continental Europe.
The conference mainly addressed three topics:
Public policy impacts (WFD and national policies) on hydrosystem dynamics and management;
The role of the geographical sciences in the implementation of hydrosystem management policies (including hydrological risks);
The added value of fundamental research in sustaining applied research into hydrosystem management.
Organisation of the book
This book is the main permanent record of this international conference. It contains 30 contributions (including this introduction and the conclusions) written by 77 authors (France, Switzerland, Romania, Portugal, USA, Japan) from the University/Graduate school (86%) and professional fields (14%), reflecting the very diverse topics under discussion during the three conference days. Beside discussions and contributions a field excursion was also organised in the Swiss Rhône valley where many conference topics presented were again discussed from a “field” point of view.
The book is organised in four sections:
Section 1: River basin management, achieving good status of hydrosystems and geographical sciences (7 contributions);
Section 2: Water laws, hydrological/sediment transfers and integrated approaches to risk management (7 contributions);
Section 3: Institutional management of water use and participation (7 contributions);
Section 4: Fundamental geographical research applied to hydrosystem management (7 contributions).
We hope that the case studies presented in this book will show how research in geography can contribute to the implementation of water policies in Europe.
