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Moreau C, Cottet M, Rivière-Honegger A, François A, Evette A. Nature-based solutions (NbS): A management paradigm shift in practitioners' perspectives on riverbank soil bioengineering. J Environ Manage 2022; 308:114638. [PMID: 35149400 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2021] [Revised: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are promoted as practical and theoretical solutions that simultaneously provide human well-being and biodiversity benefits. One example is soil bioengineering using construction techniques based on living vegetation, and is frequently used for riverbank stabilization, flood protection, and erosion control. Compared with civil engineering, NbS offer many advantages such as cost reduction, limited impact on the environment, and production of ecosystem services. However, their use is still marginal for riverbank control, especially in urban areas. In this paper, we focus on soil bioengineering techniques for riverbank protection in an urban context from the practitioners' perspective. We question to what extent NbS require a shift in management paradigm. We used qualitative methods to interview 17 practitioners working in the Rhone Alps basin (France). Our results reveal that switching from civil engineering to soil bioengineering is not only a technical change, but also requires a shift from a "predict and control" paradigm to an "adaptive management" paradigm because of three major reasons. First, soil bioengineering techniques require redefinition of the performance of engineering structures with the inclusion of ecological and social dimensions. Second, the adoption of soil bioengineering techniques requires that practitioners, elected people and inhabitants reconsider risk sharing and acceptance. Third, the techniques require practitioners to adopt a new posture, with new soft skills (humility and daring) and a new collective organization (collective feedback). Finally, we identify three levers for a broader use of such techniques: (i) systematic assessment of the ecological, economical, and social benefits of such techniques; (ii) improving risk acceptance and sharing; (iii) fostering of social learning among practitioners through collective or technical feedback.
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- Clémence Moreau
- Université de Lyon, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, UMR 5600 Environnement Ville Société, France
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- Université de Lyon, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, UMR 5600 Environnement Ville Société, France.
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, LESSEM, F-38402, St-Martin-d'Hères, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, LESSEM, F-38402, St-Martin-d'Hères, France
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Boyer AL, Comby E, Flaminio S, Le Lay YF, Cottet M. The social dimensions of a river's environmental quality assessment. Ambio 2019; 48:409-422. [PMID: 30145732 PMCID: PMC6411807 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-018-1089-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2018] [Revised: 07/03/2018] [Accepted: 08/14/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Integrated water resources management, promoted in developed countries, obliges to integrate social aspects with hydrological and ecological dimensions when assessing river quality. To better understand these social aspects, we propose a mixed-method to study public perceptions of an impounded river. Since the 1930s, the management of the Ain river (France) has been challenged by conflicts about the river's quality. We surveyed (using interviews and mental maps) various stakeholders along the river. The results based on textual and content analysis show variations in the public's perceptions according to the residence area, practices, and the degree of emotional attachment to the river. The assessment of environmental quality needs to take into account different types of knowledge, sometimes conflicting, that reveal and shape the variety of waterscapes which compose the Ain River. The social dimensions highlight integrated water management's inherent complexity by considering the river basin as a place to live and by involving multiple stakeholders.
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- Anne-Lise Boyer
- CNRS UMR 5600 Environnement Ville Société, ENS de Lyon, 15 Parvis René Descartes, University of Lyon, 15 Parvis René Descartes, BP 7000, 69342 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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- UMR 6049 ThéMA, Université de Franche-Comté, University of Franche-Comté, 32 rue Mégevand, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
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- CNRS UMR 5600 Environnement Ville Société, ENS de Lyon, 15 Parvis René Descartes, University of Lyon, 15 Parvis René Descartes, BP 7000, 69342 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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- CNRS UMR 5600 Environnement Ville Société, ENS de Lyon, 15 Parvis René Descartes, University of Lyon, 15 Parvis René Descartes, BP 7000, 69342 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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- CNRS UMR 5600 Environnement Ville Société, ENS de Lyon, 15 Parvis René Descartes, University of Lyon, 15 Parvis René Descartes, BP 7000, 69342 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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Rouifed S, Cottet M, de Battista M, Le Lay YF, Piola F, Rateau P, Rivière-Honegger A. Landscape perceptions and social representations of Fallopia spp. in France. Naturwissenschaften 2018; 105:67. [PMID: 30467644 DOI: 10.1007/s00114-018-1592-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2017] [Revised: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 10/31/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Choices have to be made to manage invasive species because eradication often is not possible. Both ecological and social factors have to be considered to improve the efficiency of management plans. We conducted a social study on Fallopia spp., a major invasive plant taxon in Europe, including (1) a survey on the perception of a landscape containing Fallopia spp. using a photoquestionnaire and (2) an analysis of the social representations of Fallopia spp. of managers and users in one highly invaded area and one less invaded area. The respondents to the photoquestionnaire survey appreciated the esthetics of the landscapes less when tall Fallopia spp. were present. Few people were able to identify and name the plant, and this knowledge negatively affected the appreciation of the photos containing Fallopia spp. The central core of the social representation of Fallopia spp. was composed of the invasive status of the plant, its density, and its ecological impacts. The peripheral elements of the representation depended on the people surveyed. The users highlighted the natural aspect whereas the managers identified the need for control. In the invaded area, the managers qualified the species as "unmanageable," whereas the species was qualified as "foreign" in the less invaded area. Those results provide insights that have to be included when objectives of management plans of these species are selected.
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- S Rouifed
- CNRS, ENTPE, UMR5023 LEHNA, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France. .,ISARA, 23 Rue Jean Baldassini, F-69364, Lyon, France.
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- CNRS, UMR 5600 EVS, ENS de Lyon, Université de Lyon, F-69007, Lyon, France
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- CHROME - EA 7352, Unîmes, Université de Nîmes, Nîmes, France
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- CNRS, UMR 5600 EVS, ENS de Lyon, Université de Lyon, F-69007, Lyon, France
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- CNRS, ENTPE, UMR5023 LEHNA, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France
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- CHROME - EA 7352, Unîmes, Université de Nîmes, Nîmes, France
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- CNRS, UMR 5600 EVS, ENS de Lyon, Université de Lyon, F-69007, Lyon, France
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Marti R, Ribun S, Aubin JB, Colinon C, Petit S, Marjolet L, Gourmelon M, Schmitt L, Breil P, Cottet M, Cournoyer B. Human-Driven Microbiological Contamination of Benthic and Hyporheic Sediments of an Intermittent Peri-Urban River Assessed from MST and 16S rRNA Genetic Structure Analyses. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:19. [PMID: 28174557 PMCID: PMC5258724 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2016] [Accepted: 01/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Rivers are often challenged by fecal contaminations. The barrier effect of sediments against fecal bacteria was investigated through the use of a microbial source tracking (MST) toolbox, and by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) of V5-V6 16S rRNA gene (rrs) sequences. Non-metric multi-dimensional scaling analysis of V5-V6 16S rRNA gene sequences differentiated bacteriomes according to their compartment of origin i.e., surface water against benthic and hyporheic sediments. Classification of these reads showed the most prevalent operating taxonomic units (OTU) to be allocated to Flavobacterium and Aquabacterium. Relative numbers of Gaiella, Haliangium, and Thermoleophilum OTU matched the observed differentiation of bacteriomes according to river compartments. OTU patterns were found impacted by combined sewer overflows (CSO) through an observed increase in diversity from the sewer to the hyporheic sediments. These changes appeared driven by direct transfers of bacterial contaminants from wastewaters but also by organic inputs favoring previously undetectable bacterial groups among sediments. These NGS datasets appeared more sensitive at tracking community changes than MST markers. The human-specific MST marker HF183 was strictly detected among CSO-impacted surface waters and not river bed sediments. The ruminant-specific DNA marker was more broadly distributed but intense bovine pollution was required to detect transfers from surface water to benthic and hyporheic sediments. Some OTU showed distribution patterns in line with these MST datasets such as those allocated to the Aeromonas, Acinetobacter, and Pseudomonas. Fecal indicators (Escherichia coli and total thermotolerant coliforms) were detected all over the river course but their concentrations were not correlated with MST ones. Overall, MST and NGS datasets suggested a poor colonization of river sediments by bovine and sewer bacterial contaminants. No environmental outbreak of these bacterial contaminants was detected.
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- Romain Marti
- Research Group on "Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens and Environment", UMR CNRS5557, INRA1418 Ecologie Microbienne, Université Lyon 1, VetAgro Sup Marcy L'Etoile, France
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- Research Group on "Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens and Environment", UMR CNRS5557, INRA1418 Ecologie Microbienne, Université Lyon 1, VetAgro Sup Marcy L'Etoile, France
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- Research Group on "Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens and Environment", UMR CNRS5557, INRA1418 Ecologie Microbienne, Université Lyon 1, VetAgro Sup Marcy L'Etoile, France
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- Research Group on "Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens and Environment", UMR CNRS5557, INRA1418 Ecologie Microbienne, Université Lyon 1, VetAgro Sup Marcy L'Etoile, France
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- Research Group on "Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens and Environment", UMR CNRS5557, INRA1418 Ecologie Microbienne, Université Lyon 1, VetAgro Sup Marcy L'Etoile, France
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- Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), SG2M-Laboratoire Santé Environnement et Microbiologie, RBE Département Plouzané, France
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- LIVE 7362 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-ENGEES, LTER - "Zone Atelier Environnementale Urbaine" Strasbourg, France
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- Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies pour l'Environnement et l'Agriculture (IRSTEA), UR HHLY Villeurbanne, France
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- UMR5600 "Environnement Ville Société," École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS) Lyon - Descartes Lyon, France
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- Research Group on "Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens and Environment", UMR CNRS5557, INRA1418 Ecologie Microbienne, Université Lyon 1, VetAgro Sup Marcy L'Etoile, France
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Walker-Springett K, Jefferson R, Böck K, Breckwoldt A, Comby E, Cottet M, Hübner G, Le Lay YF, Shaw S, Wyles K. Ways forward for aquatic conservation: Applications of environmental psychology to support management objectives. J Environ Manage 2016; 166:525-36. [PMID: 26599566 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2015] [Revised: 10/27/2015] [Accepted: 11/02/2015] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The success or failure of environmental management goals can be partially attributed to the support for such goals from the public. Despite this, environmental management is still dominated by a natural science approach with little input from disciplines that are concerned with the relationship between humans and the natural environment such as environmental psychology. Within the marine and freshwater environments, this is particularly concerning given the cultural and aesthetic significance of these environments to the public, coupled with the services delivered by freshwater and marine ecosystems, and the vulnerability of aquatic ecosystems to human-driven environmental perturbations. This paper documents nine case studies which use environmental psychology methods to support a range of aquatic management goals. Examples include understanding the drivers of public attitudes towards ecologically important but uncharismatic river species, impacts of marine litter on human well-being, efficacy of small-scale governance of tropical marine fisheries and the role of media in shaping attitudes towards. These case studies illustrate how environmental psychology and natural sciences can be used together to apply an interdisciplinary approach to the management of aquatic environments. Such an approach that actively takes into account the range of issues surrounding aquatic environment management is more likely to result in successful outcomes, from both human and environmental perspectives. Furthermore, the results illustrate that better understanding the societal importance of aquatic ecosystems can reduce conflict between social needs and ecological objectives, and help improve the governance of aquatic ecosystems. Thus, this paper concludes that an effective relationship between academics and practitioners requires fully utilising the skills, knowledge and experience from both sectors.
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- Kate Walker-Springett
- Understanding Risk Research Group, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK.
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- RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, RSPB, The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire, SG19 2DL, UK; Centre for Marine and Coastal Policy Research, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK.
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- Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
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- CNRS UMR 5600 Environnement, Ville, Société, University of Lyon, ENS de Lyon, 15 Parvis René Descartes, BP 7000, 69342 Lyon CEDEX 07, France.
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- CNRS UMR 5600 Environnement, Ville, Société, University of Lyon, ENS de Lyon, 15 Parvis René Descartes, BP 7000, 69342 Lyon CEDEX 07, France.
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- Institute of Psychology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Germany.
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- CNRS UMR 5600 Environnement, Ville, Société, University of Lyon, ENS de Lyon, 15 Parvis René Descartes, BP 7000, 69342 Lyon CEDEX 07, France.
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- School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4067, Queensland, Australia.
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- School of Psychology, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, UK.
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Cottet M, Piégay H, Bornette G. Does human perception of wetland aesthetics and healthiness relate to ecological functioning? J Environ Manage 2013; 128:1012-22. [PMID: 23895913 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.06.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2012] [Revised: 06/22/2013] [Accepted: 06/28/2013] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Wetland management usually aims at preserving or restoring desirable ecological characteristics or functions. It is now well-recognized that some social criteria should also be included. Involving lay-people in wetland preservation or restoration projects may mean broadening project objectives to fit various and potentially competing requirements that relate to ecology, aesthetics, recreation, etc. In addition, perceived value depends both upon expertise and objectives, both of which vary from one stakeholder population to another. Perceived value and ecological functioning have to be reconciled in order to make a project successful. Understanding the perceptions of lay-people as well as their opinions about ecological value is a critical part of the development of sustainable management plans. Characterizing the environment in a way that adequately describes ecological function while also being consistent with lay perception may help reach such objectives. This goal has been addressed in a case study relating to wetlands of the Ain River (France). A photo-questionnaire presenting a sample of photographs of riverine wetlands distributed along the Ain River was submitted to 403 lay-people and self-identified experts. Two objectives were defined: (1) to identify the different parameters, whether visual or ecological, influencing the perception regarding the value of these ecosystems; (2) to compare the perceptions of self-identified experts and lay-people. Four criteria appear to strongly influence peoples' perceptions of ecological and aesthetical values: water transparency and colour, the presence and appearance of aquatic vegetation, the presence of sediments, and finally, trophic status. In our study, we observed only a few differences in perception. The differences primarily related to the value assigned to oligotrophic wetlands but even here, the differences between lay and expert populations were minimal. These results support the idea that it is possible to implement an integrated and participative management program for ecosystems. Our approach can provide a shared view of environmental value facilitating the work of managers in defining comprehensive goals for wetland preservation or restoration projects.
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- Marylise Cottet
- CNRS-UMR 5600 «Environnement, Ville, Société», 15 parvis René Descartes, BP 7000, F-69342 Lyon Cedex 07, France.
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Cottet M, Rivière-Honegger A, Piegay H. Mieux comprendre la perception des paysages de bras morts en vue d’une restauration écologique : quels sont les liens entre les qualités esthétique et écologique perçues par les acteurs ? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.4000/norois.3408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Cottet M, Albizu L, Perkovska S, Jean-Alphonse F, Rahmeh R, Orcel H, Méjean C, Granier S, Mendre C, Mouillac B. Past, present and future of vasopressin and oxytocin receptor oligomers, prototypical GPCR models to study dimerization processes. Curr Opin Pharmacol 2010; 10:59-66. [DOI: 10.1016/j.coph.2009.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2009] [Revised: 09/30/2009] [Accepted: 10/01/2009] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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