Friday, 1st October 2010 – Clermont-Ferrand

This seminar aims to discuss the interactions between regionalisation of water management and adaptive management. Regionalisation embeds many scales of time and space, which have to be combined to improve and change stakeholder practices. The seminar will bring together international specialists to analyse how adaptive management can deal with institutional, technical and political multi-scalar issues in order to foster change of practises.

This seminar is organised in partnership with AgroParisTech Clermont-Ferrand, INRA-SAD and UMR METAFORT.

Programme

9am – 9.10am: Introduction

• Dominique Vollet, Director of UMR Metafort
• Christian Amblard, President of the Fédération de Recherche en Environnement

9.10am – 10.50am: Regionalisation: is it a way to change local practices ?

Ludovic Méasson, UMR Metafort: Regionalisation and Multi-Scalar Politics about Sustainable Agriculture Policies

Marc Benoit, INRA-SAD: Territorial Approaches and Change of Agricultural Practices Towards the Conservation of Water Ressources

10.50am – 12.30pm: Expectations of Regionalisation for Sustainable Water Management

Bruce Taylor, CSIRO, Australia: Why Have Australian Commonwealth and States Regionalised Their Natural Resource Management Policies?

Bernard Barraqué, AgroParisTech: Expected Role of Territorialisation for the European Water Framework Directive

12.30am – 1.40 pm - Lunch

1.40 pm – 4.10 pm: How Could Evaluation and Adaptive Management Improve Regionalisation?

Rachel Eberhard, CSIRO, Australia: Combining Many Scales of Time and Space Through Adaptive Management of the Great Barrier Reef

Jan Sendzimir, Researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria: Lessons on Adaptive Water Management From the NeWater Programme

Yorck von Korff, Yorck von Korff, Partner at LISODE, France: Specialist of methods and tools for stakeholder involvement processes

4.10pm – 4.30pm : Conclusion

Pierre André, Professor at the Department of Geography (Université de Montréal), and Director of the Centre for International Environmental Research Development (CEDRIE)
 

Speakers

• Pierre André, Professor at the Department of Geography (Université de Montréal), and Director of the Centre for International Environmental Research Development (CEDRIE)

• Bernard Barraqué, CNRS Research Director and Professor at AgroParisTech: Specialist of Water Policies

• Marc Benoit, INRA SAD, France: Specialist of the territorial management of agricultural activities

• Yorck von Korff, Partner at LISODE, France: Specialist of methods and tools for stakeholder involvement processes

• Rachel Eberhard, Director of Eberhard Consulting Brisbane, QLD – Australia: Manager of an applied-research program in partnership with CSIRO to elaborate a protocol for monitoring and evaluating the Great Barrier Reef Plan

• Ludovic Méasson, Post-doctoral Researcher at UMR Metafort,  Co-Coordinator of the Network of Researchers on Public Policy Evaluation: Working on policies for sustainable agriculture linked with water issues
• Jan Sendzimir*, Researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria: Lessons on Adaptive Water Management From the NeWater Programme: http://www.newater.info/

• Bruce Taylor, Researcher at CSIRO, Brisbane - QLD – Australia: Co-Author of Contested Country. Local and Regional Natural Resources Management in Australia. Collingwood: CSIRO, 2009. 250 p. This book offers a critical analysis of the Natural Heritage Trust (regionalised policy for managing natural resources
  

Practical information

• Attending the seminar is free, but the registration is compulsory before the 15th of September. Please contact Ludovic Méasson at ludovic.measson@engref.agroparistech.fr
• A lunch-buffet will be available. Some fees will be asked (except for the speakers). We’ll give more information about this later.
• To visit AgroParisTech - Clermont-Ferrand, go to http://www.agroparistech.fr/-Centre-de-Clermont-Ferrand-.htm