Water as an Urban Risk Seminar

On The May 4, 2023

9am - 12.30pm
Centre des Humanités INSA Lyon, 1 rue des Humanités 69100 Villeurbanne, Amphi Est

Although water is now a central element in urban development projects, it can also represent a risk for the city and its inhabitants. In a context of climate change, water as an urban risk is a fundamental subject that motivates a great deal of research and is of interest to local authorities, emergency services and practising planners.
Event in French

The aim of this seminar is to review current research projects in Lyon and Saint-Etienne on this topic in order to encourage exchanges between these projects and identify ways to better understand and deal with this risk.

Audience:
- Any researcher or doctoral student wishing to learn more about projects on this theme, share tools and discuss their difficulties;
- Practitioners wishing to know more about the projects and/or to think about new partnerships.


Programme

1. Presentation of "Eaux et Mondes Urbains" and its first activities, including a mapping of recent and current research projects dedicated to "Water" and "Urban areas" taking place in Lyon and Saint Etienne - by Sara Haniche, H2O'Lyon, IMU, and Emmanuel Mignot, LMFA (5min)

2. Presentation of ongoing research projects related to the theme of "Water as an urban risk".

We will focus on the approach and outline of the projects rather than the scientific details (10min presentation per project + 5min Q&A)

a. Pollution during urban floods - Clément Fagour (INRAE Riverly) and Maïlys Genouel (EVS)
b. Swimming in urban rivers - Oldrich Navratil (EVS)
c. PCR - Anthropotraces (research into the links between anthropisation of natural environments and (palaeo)pollution) - Hugo Delile (Archéorient)
 
Coffee break (15min)

d. Microplastics in sewers - Rémy Bayard (INSA DEEP)
e. SERIOUS (tiger mosquito in urban areas) - Claire Valiente Moro (LEM)
f. LEGIODREAM (development of legionella in urban environments) - Séverine Allegra (EVS-ISTHME) and Audrey Vanhove (EVS-ISTHME)
 
 
 
The speakers will be invited to present their study subject, their problematic, the chosen scientific approach (field, method, disciplines, etc.), the partners, the expected results and the difficulties/needs encountered.
The aim will be to present the framework rather than the scientific details.

3. Workshops in small groups on the various obstacles observed and ideas that could be put into action to go further in the research projects (45min)
 
This time of exchange should allow for the identification of concrete means to overcome the shortcomings stated during the presentations. Participants will be able to choose the "difficulty" they would like to discuss in groups (e.g. interdisciplinarity, link with practitioners, lack of data, training for masters and PhD students, etc.).

This event is organised by the "Water and Urban Worlds" working group


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