time, making the recognition of this collective effort even more difficult. This book
is the opportunity to present the most salient or recent results of the program,
presented here as trajectories that relate environmental changes, societal changes,
and the state of the Seine River basin waterbodies, which is nowadays largely
controlled by the balance between pressures, water and river uses, and social
responses.
The book covers a broad range of topics such as (1) the estimation of fluxes
transported from headwaters to the coastal zone, at a very fine spatial scale, using
models, (2) long-term analyses (50–200 years) of the socio-ecosystem Seine, using
archives, retro and prospective modeling, (3) the identification and quantification of
sources and transfer of a wide variety of elements and pollutants (nutrients, carbon,
trace metals, POPs, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, microplastics, etc.), (4) the study
of microbial contaminations, and (5) the analysis of the impact of water quality and
contaminations on biota.
Studies considering the Seine River basin as a socio-ecological system are
increasingly present within the PIREN-Seine program, which has been included
in the Zone Atelier Seine (ZA Seine). The latter coordinates the research activities
on the Paris city, the Seine River basin, and the Seine River estuary. It is also part of
the European Long-Term Socio-Economic and Ecosystem Research (LTSER) programs. The large size of the basin and the longue-dure ´e approach (up to 200 years)
make this territory a rare and fully documented example of the multiple and
evolving interrelations between a river, its large basin and their society which
characterize the Anthropocene era.
Fontainebleau, France
Nicolas Flipo
Talence, France
Pierre Labadie
Paris, France
Laurence Lestel
Paris, France
Michel Meybeck
x
Preface
is the opportunity to present the most salient or recent results of the program,
presented here as trajectories that relate environmental changes, societal changes,
and the state of the Seine River basin waterbodies, which is nowadays largely
controlled by the balance between pressures, water and river uses, and social
responses.
The book covers a broad range of topics such as (1) the estimation of fluxes
transported from headwaters to the coastal zone, at a very fine spatial scale, using
models, (2) long-term analyses (50–200 years) of the socio-ecosystem Seine, using
archives, retro and prospective modeling, (3) the identification and quantification of
sources and transfer of a wide variety of elements and pollutants (nutrients, carbon,
trace metals, POPs, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, microplastics, etc.), (4) the study
of microbial contaminations, and (5) the analysis of the impact of water quality and
contaminations on biota.
Studies considering the Seine River basin as a socio-ecological system are
increasingly present within the PIREN-Seine program, which has been included
in the Zone Atelier Seine (ZA Seine). The latter coordinates the research activities
on the Paris city, the Seine River basin, and the Seine River estuary. It is also part of
the European Long-Term Socio-Economic and Ecosystem Research (LTSER) programs. The large size of the basin and the longue-dure ´e approach (up to 200 years)
make this territory a rare and fully documented example of the multiple and
evolving interrelations between a river, its large basin and their society which
characterize the Anthropocene era.
Fontainebleau, France
Nicolas Flipo
Talence, France
Pierre Labadie
Paris, France
Laurence Lestel
Paris, France
Michel Meybeck
x
Preface