En 'Amazonie des rivières ', au nord-ouest du bassin, le fleuve Amazonas descend de 7 m entre la crue en avril-mai et l'étiage en septembre, à la station fluviométrique de Tamshiyacu (Pérou). La décrue permet la mise en culture de vastes zones exondées et fertiles sur les berges de la rivière et dans les plaines d'inondation (varzea). Les cultures ...
Future climate scenarios for the Mediterranean region indicate a possible decrease in annual precipitation associated with an intensification of extreme rainfall events in the coming years. A major challenge in this region is to evaluate the impacts of changing precipitation patterns on extreme hydrological events such as droughts and floods. For t...
This working paper presents the proceedings of an international workshop on water policies, held on January 2016 in (Delhi) and brought together 25 participants. It was supported by a number of partners (Centre for Policy Research, Centre de Sciences Humaines, Institut Français of Pondicherry, UMI i-GLOBES CNRS/University of Arizona, ANR ENGIND, AN...
This paper suggests the use of the choice experiment approach to inform the design of a payment for environmental services (PES) to foster collective rangeland management. The empirical implementation was conducted in the M'goun watershed located in South-East of Morocco. Individual acceptability of various conservation measures and incentives is a...
