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Proposal COSUST Special Issue « Co-designing Research on Social Transformations to Sustainability » Title: The DIALAQ project on sustainable groundwater management: a transdisciplinary and transcultural approachtoparticipatory foresight
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Abstract:In the past decades, groundwater over-exploitation has increased the vulnerability of users, social inequalities and environmental degradation. In this context, the DIALAQ project aimed to experiment and disseminate a participatory approach intended to strengthen stakeholders’ capacity to implement more sustainable agricultural and groundwater management. DIALAQ’s network encompasses 8 regions in 4 countries (India, Morocco, France and the United States) including groups of farmers, administration’s representatives, NGOs, elected representatives and researchers from several disciplines. A seed funding enabled cooperation between academics and non-academic partners that led to the consolidation of the network and enabled the design of the project. Firstly, a focused review of literature on participatory foresight exercises in the field of groundwater management is presented. Secondly, the challenges and pathways taken in designing the research is described. This process resulted in a common methodological and ethical framework presented in conclusion.
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Auteur(s)
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Audrey Richard-Ferroudji
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, Nicolas Faysse
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, Zhour Bouzidi
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, Menon Ragunath
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, Jean-Daniel Rinaudo
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IFP -
Institut Français de Pondichéry
( 90735 )
- French Institute of Pondicherry
UMIFRE 21 CNRS-MAEE 11 Saint Louis Street Pondicherry 605 001
- Inde
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Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères ( 301498 )
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMIFRE21 ( 441569 )
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UMR G-EAU -
Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages
( 182889 )
- 361 rue J.F. Breton - BP 5095 34196 Montpellier Cedex 5
- France
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Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement UMR90 ( 11574 )
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Institut de Recherche pour le Développement ( 67872 )
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AgroParisTech ( 148117 )
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Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture UMR1458 ( 302049 )
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Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier ( 474617 )
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UMI -
جامعة مولاي إسماعيل = Université Moulay Ismaïl
( 238462 )
- Marjane 2, BP:298, Meknes, Maroc
- Maroc
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Pondicherry Science Forum
( 465029 )
- CERD, No. 10, 2nd Street, P.R. Gardens, Reddiarpalayam, 605010 Pondicherry
- Inde
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IBLI -
Institut de biologie de Lille - IBL
( 24511 )
- Institut de Biologie de Lille 1 Rue du Professeur Calmette - 447 59021 LILLE CEDEX
- France
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Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies ( 92973 )
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Institut Pasteur de Lille ( 300166 )
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Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur ( 301247 )
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Université de Lille, Droit et Santé ( 361611 )
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8161 ( 441569 )
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In the past decades, groundwater over-exploitation has increased the vulnerability of users, social inequalities and environmental degradation. The DIALAQ research project was designed to address these challenges. This project aims to experiment and disseminate participatory approaches intended to strengthen stakeholders’ capacity to envision, plan and implement more sustainable and integrated agricultural and groundwater management strategies. DIALAQ is based on the hypothesis that scenarios are intermediary objects that can help, through participatory processes, to (1) bridge the gaps between the knowledge needed, produced and put in practice by scientists and stakeholders and (2) foster transformation to sustainability. The aim of DIALAQ was to implement foresight approaches in four countries (India, Morocco, France and the United States). Within this international project, we assumed that the diversity of cases and a transversal approach at an international level may help create knowledge on the use and abuse of groundwater, its impacts and the possible transformative changes in governance and practices. The project involved building communication between different cases where groundwater resources were overused (or at significant risk of overuse) to learn from this diversity. This kind of project usually faces two challenges: (1) to engage academic and non-academic partners, and (2) to implement comparable approaches in different countries with contrasting situations in terms of legal frameworks, policies, types of agriculture and practices of future studies. Indeed, the main challenge related to transcultural approaches of envisioning possible futures. This paper focuses on the co-design phase of a joint research project. Firstly, we present a focused review of the literature on participatory foresight exercises in the field of groundwater management. Secondly, we describe the challenges (especially taking into account the diversity of actors within our network) and the choice made in project design. The co-design of the research involved consolidating the research network, selecting sites for project implementation and co-designing the objectives and activities. Cooperation between academic and non-academic partners led to the choice of a common methodological and ethical framework that we present in the concluding section.
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Non
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Date de publication |
2016
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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances
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Sciences de l'environnement
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Mots-clés |
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"sustainable groundwater management", "Research on Social Transformations to Sustainability"
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