June 29, 2023
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Elias Ganivet, « Water, territories and global change : towards a systemic participatory approach of modelling in order to think and act under complexity », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10670/1.rcziyt
In the light of ongoing planetary scale alterations in the environmental system (i.e. global change), societies are urgently required to undertake rapid actions. Within this thesis, we approached part of the impacts of global change through water ‒ this resource allowing interfacing climate, ecosystems and human activities, and which is currently a source of tension in public sphere due to its increasing scarcity. This thesis aims at developing an approach ‒ integrating modelling and a participatory dimension ‒ in order to make visible the complexity of socio-environmental systems and the impacts (present and future) of global change, with the objective to guide decision-making processes in concertation at local scale. Conducted in the Brittany Region (North West France), within the territory of Lorient Agglomération and the Scorff and Blavet watersheds, this work led to the elaboration of a three step participatory approach called “Water and Territory”: (1) construction of a common base of knowledge regarding water and global change; (2) co-elaboration of prospective scenarios regarding possible evolutions of the territory; and (3) collective projection into the possible futures of the territory in order to identify desirable trajectories. Although it is not possible today to evaluate the impact of this approach on future decisions-making processes, it allowed offering a space for sharing and participation in order to conceive the complexity of the system and to collectively identify adaptation possibilities.