UE
Integrated Water Resources Management
Description
This course includes 1) the spatio-temporal evaluation of surface and groundwater availability at the river basin / regional / transboundary scale 2) ecological flow necessary to sustain rivers and lakes in a good state - in particular in view of droughts 3) the impacts of climate and anthropogenic change on water resources 4) hydrological modelling under different scenarios, 5) governance et water laws - the European Framework Directive and SDGs and 6) socio-hydrology (stakeholder participation, citizen science, citizen observatories). The course is accompanied by a 1-day field trip to the Giessen and Liepvrette Rivers draining the Vosges Mountains to investigate the sediment balance of gravel-bed rivers via experimental analyses of river bed stability (high-resolution grain size and roughness surveys) in support of IWRM under high flood and drought risk.
Bibliographie
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WWAP (United Nations World Water Assessment Programme)/UN-Water (2018). The United Nations World Water Development Report 2018: Nature-Based Solutions for Water. Paris, UNESCO, pp. 154.