Hydrometeorological Hazards: Interfacing Science and Policy
Edited by Philippe Quevauviller
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Edited by Paolo Ciavola and Giovanni Coco
Drought: Science and Policy
Edited by Ana Iglesias, Dionysis Assimacopoulos, and Henny A.J. Van Lanen
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Flash Floods Early Warning Systems: Policy and Practice
Edited by Daniel Sempere‐Torres
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Isabelle La Jeunesse
University of Tours
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Names: La Jeunesse, Isabelle, editor. | Larrue, Corinne, editor.
Title: Facing hydrometeorological extreme events : a governance issue / [edited by] Isabelle La Jeunesse, Corinne Larrue.
Description: First edition. | Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019. | Series: Hydrometeorological hazards : interfacing science and policy | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019017936 (print) | LCCN 2019980282 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119383543 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781119383468 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119383550 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Hydrometeorology–Government policy. | Hydrological forecasting. | Flood control. | Drought management.
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Meghan Alexander
School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom
Brice Anselme
Institut de Géographie, Laboratory CNRS 8586 PRODIG, Université Paris 1 Panthéon‐Sorbonne, Paris, France
Alba Ballester
Autonomous University of Barcelona‐Institute of Government and Public Policies, Barcelona, Spain
Suzanne Boyes
Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies, University of Hull, United Kingdom
Hans Bressers
Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Nanny Bressers
Former Project Leader of the European DROP Project at the Water Authority of Vechtstromen, now a Consultant at Vindsubsidies. Uthrecht, the Netherlands
Alison Browne
Department of Geography, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Elie Chevillot‐Miot
Laboratory CNRS 6554 LETG‐Nantes, University of Nantes, Nantes, France
Claudia Cirelli
Laboratory CNRS 7324 Citeres, University of Tours, Tours, France
Ann Crabbé
University of Antwerp, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change, Antwerp, Belgium
Axel Creach
Laboratory CNRS 8185 ENeC, Paris Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Paul Durand
Laboratory of physical geography CNRS 8591 LGP, Université Paris 1 Panthéon‐Sorbonne, Paris, France
Virginie K.E. Duvat
Laboratory CNRS 7266 LIENSs, La Rochelle University, La Rochelle, France
Michael Elliott
Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies, University of Hull, United Kingdom
Marie Fournier
Laboratoire Géomatique et Foncier (GeF) – Équipe ERADIF (Aménagement, Droit immobilier, Foncier), École Supérieure des Géomètres et Topographes (CNAM), Le Mans, France
Mauro Galluccio
External Speaker to the European Commission, DG COMM, Brussels, Belgium
EANAM – European Association for Negotiation and Mediation, Brussels, Belgium
Lydie Goeldner‐Gianella
Laboratory of physical geography CNRS 8591 LGP, Université Paris 1 Panthéon‐Sorbonne, Paris, France
Brian Golding
Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom
Mathilde Gralepois
Laboratory CNRS 7324 Citeres, University of Tours, Tours, France
Yves Henocque
Maritime Policy and Governance, French Research Institute for the Development of the Sea, IFREMER, Paris, France
Giorgos Kallis
Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
Stefan Kuks
Department of governance and technology for sustainability, CSTM, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands and Vechstromen Water Authority, The Netherlands
Abel La Calle
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Institute of Government and Public Policy, Barcelona, Spain
Isabelle La Jeunesse
Laboratory CNRS 7324 Citeres, University of Tours, Tours, France
Ruta Landgrebe
Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany
Corinne Larrue
Lab’Urba, Ecole d'Urbanisme de Paris, Université Paris Est Créteil, Marne‐La‐Vallée, France
Esmeralda Longépée
Laboratory 228 Espace‐DEV, University of Mayotte, Mayotte, France
Alexandre K. Magnan
Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, Sciences Po, Paris, France
Hannelore Mees
Department of sociology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Denis Mercier
Laboratory CNRS 8185 ENeC, Paris Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Virginia Murray
Public Health England, London, United Kingdom
Alexandre Nicolae‐Lerma
BRGM Nouvelle‐Aquitaine, French Geological Survey, Pessac, France
Lila Oriard Colin
Lab’Urba, Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris, Université Paris Est Créteil, Marne‐La‐Vallée, France
Gül Özerol
Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Sophie Pardo
Economics and management laboratory LEMNA, University of Nantes, Nantes, France
Sally Priest
Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom
Thomas Schellenberger
European Center for Research on the Law of Collective Accidents and Disasters (CERDACC), IUT de Colmar, Université de Haut‐Alsace, Colmar, France
Ulf Stein
Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany
Jenny Tröltzsch
Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany
Ethemcan Turhan
Laboratory of Environmental Humanities, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Rodrigo Vidaurre
Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany
Thomas Waite
Public Health England, London, United Kingdom
Mark Wiering
Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Christos Zografos
Environmental science and technology Institute ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Isabelle La Jeunesse is Lecturer Habilitated to direct research in Environmental Geography at the University of Tours and in the laboratory CNRS Citeres. She defended a thesis carried out at Ifremer on the anthropization of the phosphorus geochemical cycle and its implications for the eutrophication management of the Thau coastal lagoon. Since then, she has focused her research on the impact of human activities on water and the needs of integrated management of this resource at the catchment scale. Her participation in European research programmes has fuelled the necessarily interdisciplinary vision of water management from environmental sciences to social sciences in the context of existing pressures, including climate change and hydrometeorological extreme events.
Corinne Larrue (1957) is Professor of urban and environmental planning at the University of Paris Est Créteil since 2013, and previously was Professor at University of Tours for 20 years. Within the University she has been (2014–2018) co‐director of the Paris School of Planning, one of the most important institutes for urban planning in France and is currently member of the Lab’urba research center.
Her major field of research, teaching, and expertise is policy analysis with emphasis on environmental and regional policies. She has coordinated and participated in several comparative research projects within the European Union Framework Programmes, dealing with implementation of environmental policy issues. She has published numerous academic papers and books devoted to environmental policy analysis and on public policy management.
Philippe Quevauviller began his research activities in 1983 at the University of Bordeaux I, France, studying lake geochemistry. Between 1984 and 1987 he was Associate Researcher at the Portuguese Environment State Secretary where he performed a multidisciplinary study (sedimentology, geomorphology, and geochemistry) of the coastal environment of the Galé coastline and of the Sado Estuary, which was the topic of his PhD degree in Oceanography gained in 1987 (at the University of Bordeaux I).
In 1988, he became Associate Researcher in the framework of a contract between the University of Bordeaux I and the Dutch Ministry for Public Works (Rijskwaterstaat), in which he investigated organotin contamination levels of Dutch coastal environments and waterways. From this research work, he gained another PhD in chemistry at the University of Bordeaux I in 1990. From 1989 to 2002, he worked at the European Commission (DG Research) in Brussels where he managed various Research and Technological Development (RTD) projects in the field of quality assurance, analytical method development and pre‐normative research for environmental analyses in the framework of the Standards, Measurements and Testing Programme. In 1999, he obtained an HDR (Diplôme d'Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in chemistry at the University of Pau, France, from a study of the quality assurance of chemical species' determination in the environment.
In 2002, he left the research world to move to the policy sector at the EC Environment Directorate‐General where he developed a new EU Directive on groundwater protection against pollution and chaired European science‐policy expert groups on groundwater and chemical monitoring in support of the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive. He moved back to the ECDGResearch in 2008, where he acted as research Programme Officer and managed research projects on climate change impacts on the aquatic environment and on hydrometeorological hazards, whilst ensuring strong links with policy networks. In April 2013 he moved to another area of work, namely Security Research, at the EC DG Enterprise and Industry where he is research Programming and Policy Officer in the fields of Crisis Management and CBRN.
Besides his EC career, Philippe Quevauviller has remained active in academic and scientific developments. He is Associate Professor at the Free University of Brussels and promoter of Master theses in an international Master on Water Engineering (IUPWARE programme), which is under this function that he is acting as Series Editor of the Hydrometeorological Extreme Events Series for Wiley. He also teaches integrated water management issues and their links to EU water science and policies to Master students of the EurAquae programme at the Polytech'Nice (France).
Philippe Quevauviller has published (as author and coauthor) more than 220 scientific and policy publications in the international literature, 54 book chapters, 80 reports and 6 books and has acted as an editor and co‐editor for 26 special issues of scientific journals and 15 books. He also coordinated a book series for Wiley on Water Quality Measurements which resulted in 10 books published between 2000 and 2011.
The rising frequency and severity of hydrometeorological extreme events have been reported in many studies and surveys, including the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. This report and other sources highlight the increasing probability that these events are partly driven by climate change, whilst other causes are linked to the increased exposure and vulnerability of societies in exposed areas (which are not only due to climate change but also to mismanagement of risks and ‘lost memories’ about them). Efforts are ongoing to enhance today's forecasting, prediction, and early warning capabilities in order to improve the assessment of vulnerability and risks and to develop adequate prevention, mitigation, and preparedness measures.
This book series, titled ‘Hydrometeorological Extreme Events’, has the ambition to gather available knowledge in this area, taking stock of research and policy developments at an international level. Whilst individual publications exist on specific hazards, the proposed series is the first of its kind to propose an enlarged coverage of various extreme events that are generally studied by different (not necessarily interconnected) research teams.
The series comprises several volumes dealing with the various aspects of hydrometeorological extreme events, primarily discussing science–policy interfacing issues, and developing specific discussions about floods, coastal storms (including storm surges), droughts, resilience and adaptation, and governance. Whilst the books examine the crisis management cycle as a whole, the focus of the discussions is generally oriented towards the knowledge base of the different events, prevention and preparedness, and improved early warning and prediction systems.
The involvement of internationally renowned scientists (from different horizons and disciplines) behind the knowledge base of hydrometeorological events makes this series unique in this respect. The overall series will provide a multidisciplinary description of various scientific and policy features concerning hydrometeorological extreme events, as written by authors from different countries, making it a truly international book series.
Following a first volume introducing the series and a second volume on coastal storms, the ‘drought’ volume was the third book of this series. This book, focusing on governance and climate and health aspects, was written by renowned experts in the field, covering various horizons and (policy and scientific) views. The forthcoming volume of the series will focus on floods.