Man and river system

Interactions among rivers, their watersheds and the sociosystem

PIREN - Seine

270 pages, parution le 28/06/2007

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This book gathers the extended abstracts of the presentations given at the international symposium "Man and River Systems II; Interactions among Rivers, their Watersheds and the Sociosystem", Paris, December 4-6, 2006. The symposium was organised by the PIREN-Seine programme, a major long lasting scientific project enabling long term ecological research at the river basin scale. At this scale, the ecosystem to consider is based on complex interactions between the natural system and the sociosystem.

Unlike the previous Man and River Systems symposium which major subject was the interaction between biological, chemical and physical processes at various scales within the watershed, our present objective is to promote interdisciplinarity between natural and social sciences. Historians, sociologists, economists thus provided key inputs to the symposium.

The symposium addressed physical, geochemical and microbial processes that are studied within river ecosystems and their catchments. These elementary processes are involved in the transformations, circulations and cycling of natural elements and contaminants along their transfers across all compartments of the hydrosystems. A strong focus is given on the interactions between aquatic and terrestrial systems, such as diffuse sources and sinks. This includes historical descriptions of the pressures as well as present time analysis of the fluxes and impacts of nitrogen, phosphorus, total solids, metals, pesticides at the river basin scale. An important final outcome of this complex set of processes and pressures is the ecological status of the hydrosystem. A series of presentations illustrate a panel of approaches which have been developed to assess the ecological status of river systems at the basin scale in relations to applied stresses. Last but not least, because of the major importance of human activities in river basin ecosystems, evaluating public policies and technical tools for river basin management. The efficiency for various economic tools is discussed, and compared to more politic incentives, including the strongly demanded public participation. Numerous case studies illustrate this topic.

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Assessing the threshold levels used to detect hydrological and environmental drought in semi arid-areas
How to take account of research context changes induced by the Water Framework Directive? The necessity of a European wide exchange network.
Bioindication and bioassay methods combination for the water quality assessment in the Qishon River, Israel
The Lower Jordan water quality assessment: Biotechnological approach under the European framework directive
Urban Metabolism and River Systems: An historical Perspective; Paris and the Seine, 1790-1970
Alexander-Zeimar river restoration - Cost benefit analysis to find the social value of a clean river
Changes of the nutrient loads of the Odra River during the last century - their causes and consequences
Impact of diffuse pollutants from agriculture on the Great Backa Canal water quality
The mark of history: rivers and valleys in the Seine river basin from the VIIIth to the XVIIIth century
Measurement planning according to the Water Framework Directive combining nutrient modelling and stakeholder participation
Nitrate dynamics in a sub-surface drained agricultural watershed
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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Presses de l'école nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
Auteur(s)	PIREN - Seine
Parution	28/06/2007
Nb. de pages	270
Format	17 x 24
Couverture	Broché
Poids	500g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9782859784270
ISBN13	978-2-85978-427-0