Estuarine cities facing global change / / edited by Denis Salles, Glenn Mainguy, Charles de Godoy Leski

• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2023]; ©2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.7
• Soggetto topico: Nature - Effect of human beings on; Environmental policy
• Persona (resp. second.): SallesDenis; MainguyGlenn; de Godoy LeskiCharles
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Water of the Cities and the Water of the Fields -- Chapter 1. The Governance of Socio-Ecological Interdependencies: The Landes du Médoc Water Catchment Area Controversy -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Drinking water supply in Gironde, the history of a transfer from surface water to deep groundwater -- 1.2.1. Under the Roman Empire: the administration of a city's water sources in its estuary -- 1.2.2. The Middle Ages: the era of hydraulic and defensive withdrawal of the city -- 1.2.3. The hydraulic "Renaissance" in the 17th century: towards the golden age of Bordeaux fountains -- 1.2.4. From 1800 to 1850: the dark age of resource availability -- 1.2.5. From 1850 to 1950: towards extractivist geopolitics of water -- 1.2.6. From 1950 to the present day: the socio-technical anticipation of issues through the governance of the drinking water resource -- 1.3. Metropolitan territorial conceptions in the face of forestry references -- 1.4. The refinement of models and the rising criticism -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 1.6. References -- Chapter 2. Ecological Engineering in a Controversial Drinking Water Production Project -- 2.1. The socio-hydrogeological configuration of the Landes du Médoc catchment area (Gironde) -- 2.2. An ecological engineering solution -- 2.3. How much of the extracted water must be reinjected? -- 2.3.1. Percentage efficiency of the water reinjected -- 2.3.2. Efficiency of the reinjection duration -- 2.3.3. Efficiency of the selected method to reinject the water -- 2.4. When and where should the extracted water be reinjected? -- 2.5. Conclusion -- 2.6. References -- Part 2. Protecting Against Risks, by the Estuary, and for the Estuary -- Chapter 3. Living in a City Exposed to Flood Risk: At What Cost(s)?. ; 3.1. Residential location and risk as economic issues -- 3.2. Empirical strategy of the hedonic price model -- 3.3. Bordeaux Métropole study area and data -- 3.4. A multifaceted city -- 3.4.1. Confirmed metropolitan trends coupled with emerging rurbanization -- 3.4.2. A double effect of flood risk on prices -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 3.6. References -- Chapter 4. The Ecological Restoration of Estuaries: Protection of People and Combating the Erosion of Biodiversity -- 4.1. Habitats, biodiversity and ecosystem services -- 4.2. Causes of the ecological degradation of estuaries -- 4.2.1. Effects of rising sea levels -- 4.2.2. Effects of anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity -- 4.3. Ecological restoration of estuaries for the protection of biodiversity -- 4.3.1. Active and passive restoration -- 4.4. Examples of ecological restoration in estuaries -- 4.4.1. The marshes of Mortagne-sur-Gironde (France) -- 4.4.2. Mondego estuary (Portugal) -- 4.4.3. Scheldt estuary (Belgium) -- 4.5. Conclusion -- 4.6. References -- Chapter 5. Sensemaking in the Face of Estuarine Flood Risk Mitigation -- 5.1. The conceptual framework of narrative analysis -- 5.1.1. Stories of risk governance -- 5.1.2. Sensemaking as a source of narratives about change -- 5.1.3. A corpus of interviews on the risk of flooding in Gironde -- 5.2. Ethical theories invoked and associated meta-narratives -- 5.2.1. Deontology in terms of having respect for shared norms: the meta-narrative of deontological hype -- 5.2.2. Virtue ethics: the meta-narrative of "respect for justice" as a virtue -- 5.2.3. Consequentialism in risk reduction: the meta-narrative of ordinary risk governance -- 5.2.4. Consequentialism in terms of inequity: the meta-narrative of the questionable fairness of choices made -- 5.2.5. Deliberation ethics: the meta-narrative of the process that is to be improved. ; 5.2.6. Ethics of nature: the meta-narrative of nature holds the keys -- 5.3. For deliberative risk governance -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 5.5. References -- Part 3. When the Estuary Makes the City -- Chapter 6. The Estuarine City as an Allegory for Changes in Solidarity -- 6.1. Cleansing the metropolitan idea of the stench of its emissions and ecological irresponsibility -- 6.2. From the conquest of land to the recognition of territories -- 6.3. From equality to territorial cohesion -- 6.4. Conclusion -- 6.5. References -- Chapter 7. Nantes and the Loire: Construction of an Estuarine City Faced with Port and Environment Challenges -- 7.1. Emergence of the estuarine dimension: from the city of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire to the opening of the "Terre d'Estuaire" museum -- 7.1.1. From an institutional dimension -- 7.1.2. ... to a cultural and tourist vocation -- 7.2. When Nantes and the Loire drifted apart: a progressive denial of the city's estuarine dimension -- 7.2.1. From digging a canal to filling in waterways -- 7.2.2. Departure from shipyards -- 7.3. Building a new relationship between Nantes Métropole and its estuary: the desire for the Loire -- 7.3.1. Integration of the estuarine dimension through heritage and industrial-port memory -- 7.3.2. The Great Debate: a participatory tool for reclaiming the Loire -- 7.3.3. Conférence Permanente Loire and Mission Loire: putting environmental issues related to the Loire on the agenda -- 7.4. Conclusion -- 7.5. References -- Part 4. Anticipating the Future of Estuarine Cities -- Chapter 8. Past and Future Socio-Ecological Pathways of the Seine Estuary -- 8.1. The Seine estuary as a socio-ecological system -- 8.2. The successive phases of port traffic -- 8.3. The energy supply of the Seine basin -- 8.4. The contribution of ports to the agri-food system of the Seine basin. ; 8.5. The era of globalized trade in manufactured goods -- 8.6. What is the future of the Seine estuary? -- 8.7. Conclusion -- 8.8. References -- Chapter 9. Metropolitan Trajectories for Anticipatory Governance of Urban Biodiversity -- 9.1. The challenges of an attractive city faced with ecological injunctions: contextual elements of emerging governance -- 9.2. The cognitive stakes of a collaborative territorial prospective -- 9.3. Scenarios of metropolitan trajectories: contrasted political-ecological footprints -- 9.3.1. Strategic scenario: "Dense City" or the Return of the Rhine Model (Scenario 1) -- 9.3.2. Dystopian scenarios: "city-nature opposition" (Scenario 2) and "city-nature interweaving" (Scenario 3) -- 9.3.3. Utopian scenarios: "radical ecological restoration" (Scenario 4.1) and "optimal reconciliation" (Scenario 4.2) -- 9.3.4. Transformative scenario: resilient city (Scenario 5) -- 9.4. Conclusion -- 9.5. References -- Conclusion -- List of Authors -- Index -- EULA.
• Titolo autorizzato: Estuarine cities facing global change
• ISBN: 1-394-22594-6; 1-394-22591-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830147203321
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