The PIREN-Seine has gradually managed to build up permanent communication
gateways and meeting places where all these parties can meet, communicate, and
exchange their experience. Over 30 years, numerous scientists, trained under the
programme, have reached the public or private sectors dealing with environmental
management; some of them are now involved, together with their former PhD
advisors, in the stakeholders’ meetings of the programme, sharing their views and
knowledge, as well as their concepts and tools.
Another set of products comprising leaflets and booklets that have been produced
since 2009 is directly targeted at French end users: technicians of the water and/or
river institutions, environmental engineers, associations, and educators. These are
written by PIREN-Seine scientists and were first published jointly with the AESN
and now with ARCEAU Idf [78]. They are freely available [17, 69]. Each one deals
with a specific topic. The 40–60-page booklets – a total of 18 in 2019 – can be
considered as a whole book on the Seine River basin and its evolution, on river
functioning, and on river-society interactions.
The PIREN-Seine is now embedded in the interdisciplinary instrument Zone
Atelier (ZA) Seine of the CNRS [79], which comprises two other projects on
Parisian urban waters and on the estuary. These ZAs, including the ZA Seine, are
part of the national and international LTSER network [80]. Through the network of
ZAs, the Seine River programme is connected to other collaborative river research
programmes (Rhône, Moselle, Loire, and Garonne).
In addition to these written products, the PIREN-Seine scientists also deliver an
annual oral reporting of their main results to their partners. These meetings,
established at the outset and opened to associations and journalists, are attended
by around 200 people over a 2-day period. They have greatly contributed to
establishing mutual trust and shared visions among scientists and partners. These
meetings are also attended by the doctoral and post-doctoral students of the
programme who also present their main results. The great variety of presentations
covering the entire spectrum of our research promotes the interdisciplinary vision
built up by the PIREN-Seine community. The programme has also carried out social
experiments: They bring together PIREN-Seine social scientists and modellers with
groups of citizens, association members, and water institutions technicians, who
meet several times to present their visions of river functioning and uses. These
experiments, which last at least 1 year, allow the social scientists to explore how the
territorial dialogue can be built. Some of the model tools that have been adapted to
the territorial conditions can be used to explore local-scale scenarios (e.g. for
conflicting river uses, restoration of fish migration, reshaping the agricultural waterscape) (see examples in [50]). At the scale of the whole basin, other scenarios are
being developed between scientists and partners, exploring possible future perspectives, particularly in terms of sanitation, agriculture, water demand, and flood
security demand (future water storage) [32, 64, 81, 82].
Trajectories of the Seine River Basin
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gateways and meeting places where all these parties can meet, communicate, and
exchange their experience. Over 30 years, numerous scientists, trained under the
programme, have reached the public or private sectors dealing with environmental
management; some of them are now involved, together with their former PhD
advisors, in the stakeholders’ meetings of the programme, sharing their views and
knowledge, as well as their concepts and tools.
Another set of products comprising leaflets and booklets that have been produced
since 2009 is directly targeted at French end users: technicians of the water and/or
river institutions, environmental engineers, associations, and educators. These are
written by PIREN-Seine scientists and were first published jointly with the AESN
and now with ARCEAU Idf [78]. They are freely available [17, 69]. Each one deals
with a specific topic. The 40–60-page booklets – a total of 18 in 2019 – can be
considered as a whole book on the Seine River basin and its evolution, on river
functioning, and on river-society interactions.
The PIREN-Seine is now embedded in the interdisciplinary instrument Zone
Atelier (ZA) Seine of the CNRS [79], which comprises two other projects on
Parisian urban waters and on the estuary. These ZAs, including the ZA Seine, are
part of the national and international LTSER network [80]. Through the network of
ZAs, the Seine River programme is connected to other collaborative river research
programmes (Rhône, Moselle, Loire, and Garonne).
In addition to these written products, the PIREN-Seine scientists also deliver an
annual oral reporting of their main results to their partners. These meetings,
established at the outset and opened to associations and journalists, are attended
by around 200 people over a 2-day period. They have greatly contributed to
establishing mutual trust and shared visions among scientists and partners. These
meetings are also attended by the doctoral and post-doctoral students of the
programme who also present their main results. The great variety of presentations
covering the entire spectrum of our research promotes the interdisciplinary vision
built up by the PIREN-Seine community. The programme has also carried out social
experiments: They bring together PIREN-Seine social scientists and modellers with
groups of citizens, association members, and water institutions technicians, who
meet several times to present their visions of river functioning and uses. These
experiments, which last at least 1 year, allow the social scientists to explore how the
territorial dialogue can be built. Some of the model tools that have been adapted to
the territorial conditions can be used to explore local-scale scenarios (e.g. for
conflicting river uses, restoration of fish migration, reshaping the agricultural waterscape) (see examples in [50]). At the scale of the whole basin, other scenarios are
being developed between scientists and partners, exploring possible future perspectives, particularly in terms of sanitation, agriculture, water demand, and flood
security demand (future water storage) [32, 64, 81, 82].
Trajectories of the Seine River Basin
21