National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture
Toutes les unités de recherche
Tous (19)
- DTM - Mountain territories development
- EABX - Aquatic ecosystems and global changes
- EFNO - Forestry ecosystems
- EMGR - Mountain Ecosystems research unit
- ETBX - Environment, territory and infrastructure
- ETGR - Torrent erosion, snow and avalanches
- G-EAU - Water resource management, actors and uses
- GESTE - Territorial management of water and the environment
- GPAN - Refrigeration process engineering
- HBAN - Hydrosystems and bioprocesses
- HHLY - Hydrology – Hydraulics
- ITAP - Information – Technologies – environmental Analysis – agricultural Processes
- LISC - Complex Systems Engineering Laboratory
- MALY - Freshwater systems, ecology and pollution
- OPAALE - Optimization of Processes in Agriculture, Agri-food and the Environment
- RECOVER - Risks, Ecosystems, Vulnerability, Environment, Resilience
- REGIONS JRU - AgroParisTech, Irstea, Inra, Université Clermont Auvergne, VetAgro Sup
- TETIS - Land, environment, remote sensing and spatial information
- TSCF - Technologies and information systems for agricultural systems
G-EAU - Water resource management, actors and uses
- Department : Eaux
- Center : Montpellier
Water has long been the subject of arrangements, uses and forms of organisation that have been maintained and adapted in accordance with technical discoveries and social, political and economic evolutions.
We have now entered a time of mounting competition for water and land resources against a backdrop of climate uncertainty and radical changes in public policies. The “Water resource management, actors and uses” joint research unit (G-EAU) undertakes research with a view to:
- Putting forward planning methods and tools to help manage water at the level of catchment areas or aquifers (holistic Resource-Use model, simplified representations and negotiation supports)
- Improving coordination of sectorial policies and land and water use in a context in which resources are used in a variety of ways – which can sometimes be conflicting – and by an array of different people
- Supplying managers with means for enhancing commercial or personal water supply services (e.g. for farming, drinking water and sanitation), backed up by automatic water flow regulation tools, economic instruments, methods for coordinating with authorities and tools for facilitating user participation
- Innovating to produce irrigation systems that are less sensitive to variables (market, climate, etc.), thereby reducing environmental risks and making better economic use of water.
The unit has French, European and international partners, notably in the South (CGIAR; universities, etc.).
Lines of research
Line 1 - Water, territories and societies
Line 2 – Functioning and management of water services
Line 3 – Water practices and uses
Teaching and education
- Host laboratory
AgroPariTech
Universities of Montpellier I (economics) and II (water sciences)
ENSEEIHT (National School for Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science, Hydraulics and Telecommunication), ISIM (Institute of Engineering Sciences of Montpellier)
- Organisation and management of education modules
AgroPariTech
CNEARC (The French Institute for Training in Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Studies)
AgroM
ENSEEIHT
Involvement in research programmes
Equipment
- Experimental irrigation station in Lavalette (Montpellier) with full irrigation equipment
- Irrigation Materials Test and Research Laboratory (LERMI) at the CEMAGREF base in Aix-en-Provence
- The experimental canal in Gignac, fitted out to study automatic regulation of canals
- Partnerships for the management of sites across several basins in the South fitted with testing instruments.
Contact
Patrice Garin
patrice.garin@irstea.fr
+33 (0)4 67 04 63 39