Silvia Flaminio

Université de Lille

Many authors have described ‘urban ecology’ as a subfield of ecology that emerged in the 1990s and has expanded exponentially. We propose to take a step further and analyse the expansion of the ‘urban’ in ecology with a novel quantitative approach, with the aim to better understand the relationship between ecology and the urban. Previous quantitati...

Pour interroger les relations parfois conflictuelles entre humains et animaux, ce numéro spécial de Géo-regards réunit huit textes sur les animalités urbaines avec des cas d’étude – et récits fictionnels – portant sur des renards, des sangliers, des vaches, des vers luisants et d’autres insectes au sein d’espaces urbains et périurbains francophones...

Promoters of urban ecology commonly point to the historical absence of the city in ecology. This assertion is obviously meant to highlight the novelty and timeliness of urban ecology and to plead for its development. Given the founding role of this ignorance narrative for urban ecology, we deemed it essential to explore whether and how it could be...

L’article revisite l’histoire du tournant urbain de l’écologie scientifique depuis les années 1970 en s’intéressant en particulier à la recherche naturaliste dans le contexte suisse. Il s’appuie sur une analyse systématique et qualitative d’un corpus de 450 publications de revues de sociétés naturalistes locales suisses (1839-2018). L’analyse diach...

In the last two decades, new academic journals, textbooks, and research networks attest to ecologists’ rising interest in cities. How did ecologists come to enter cities and to view them as places worth studying? To what extent does this new interest launch a broader redefinition of the type of knowledge that matters in ecology? Drawing on the new...

In the context of climate change, hydropower dams and reservoirs are being promoted as mitigation and adaptation tools. The reoperation of dam reservoirs is also being considered, particularly in countries where dams are currently undergoing relicensing procedures. In Switzerland, a country that is often considered to be the water tower of Europe,...

Ce document inclut toutes les références du corpus de publications de sociétés de sciences naturelles et ouvrages de flore urbaine qui ont été cités dans l'article (il n'inclut donc pas l'intégralité des références du corpus). Ces références bibliographiques sont citées en annexe pour des raisons de place. Chaque référence est associée à un numéro...

This paper investigates urban imaginaries conveyed in publications in ecology over the past century. We examine some urban ecologists’ view that urban areas have been disregarded by ecology due to negative views on cities and urbanisation. Inspired by previous work on imaginaries in social and cultural geography and political ecology, and by textua...

This article examines the territorial arrangements and reconfigurations associated with the introduction of water-related projects for irrigation, for new hydraulic infrastructure and for the protection of this resource. The article highlights the relevance of the concept of hydrosocial territory to account for the existence of diverse territorial...

Over the past two decades, ‘waterscape’ and ‘hydrosocial territory’ have gained momentum in political ecologies of water. These concepts explore the material outcomes of the interplay of social and biophysical processes by building on two different core concepts of geography (‘landscape’ and ‘territory’). Relying on a quantitative and qualitative a...

Numerous studies have highlighted the negative consequences of dams (long-term alterations of Earth systems and social and economic injustices), and have questioned the sustainability of dams, i.e., the capacity of dams to meet the social, economic, and environmental needs of the current generation without compromising the needs of future generatio...

This chapter provides methodological information about implementing documentary approaches by which to analyze, discuss, and support river restoration. First, we present the kind of documentary material that can be used to analyze discourse on river restoration. We explain how to build a corpus in order to study stakeholders’ discourses and to coll...

Rivers are socioecological systems, and using social surveys in river restoration contribute to their recognition. This methodological chapter focuses on two methods, questionnaires and interviews, which allow us to gather information about river actors’ practices and perceptions. Based on case studies from international scientific literature, the...

Many new dam projects are presently being put forward, revealing both the comeback of large hydraulic infrastructure and the resilience of the modern ontology of water. To contribute to the understanding of modern water’s perpetuation, this paper takes a step back in time and looks at the cases of two dam projects which were cancelled during the 19...

This paper synthesises the objectives, methodologies and results of my PhD thesis. As we observe the resurgence of dam building throughout the world, this research analyses the representations of dams and their spatial and temporal trajectories. Building on the literature of social and cultural geography on representation, and the writings of polit...

Résumé : Cet article s'intéresse à la contestation et à l'abandon d'un projet de barrage, le projet Gordon-below-Franklin (Tasmanie, Australie) que tente de poursuivre une institution publique, l'Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania, de la fin des années 1970 jusqu'en 1983. Il analyse plus spécifiquement comment l'hydraulic fix que représente cet...

Cette thèse a pour objectif d’étudier les représentations et les récits liés aux aménagements controversés que peuvent être les barrages hydrauliques. Si la fonction symbolique des barrages a souvent été soulignée par la littérature scientifique, peu de travaux sont réellement consacrés à leurs représentations et à leurs trajectoires spatiales et t...

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...

The Loyettes dam, planned on the Upper Rhône River, is one of the first dams to have been cancelled in France; the project was blocked during the legal public enquiry in 1982 before being completely abandoned in 1990. The study of the Loyettes controversy is based on interviews carried out 30 years later (n =17) and on archive documents (from local...

A collection of commented documents for Géoconfluences (http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/), a French website which offers teaching resources: http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/informations-scientifiques/articles/eau-australie-tasmanie Un dossier documentaire pour le site Géoconfluences qui offre des ressources de géographie pour les enseignants :...

L’article pose les jalons d’une recherche centree sur les evolutions des discours a propos d’un objet au cœur de l’actualite, le barrage. Cet objet est ici considere comme un indicateur pour questionner les representations de l’environnement. Cette recherche s’appuie sur le quotidien national Le Monde (1945-2014) pour construire une geohistoire fra...

La restauration des cours d’eau, encouragée par la Directive Cadre sur l’Eau (2000), se traduit par des changements brutaux du paysage fluvial, comme la modification du tracé du chenal ou la revégétalisation des berges. L’évaluation de telles opérations suppose de réaliser un suivi physique mais aussi social, pour comprendre comment les riverains r...

https://www.reseau-canope.fr/fig-st-die/2015/approches-scientifiques/expositions-scientifiques/posters-scientifiques/poster/article/la-tasmanie-imaginaires-dune-ile-controversee.html

https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01359294

Séminaire Programme de recherche rivière d’Ain, Apr 2014, Orgelet, France

Newspapers, and in particular the regional daily press, are rich in information on the public perception of fluvial landscapes. Geo-historical studies of these representations can play an important role in integrated management of rivers. This work proposes an analysis of the representations of sediment transport and deposit, and of flooded fluvial...