Water policy

Water-related issues are often presented from a purely technical and/or functional perspective. In this perspective, it would be a matter of "well" managing the resource (in an equitable, economical, nature-friendly way, etc.) according to the available scientific knowledge. However, this way of seeing things is not very realistic. Whatever the territorial scale concerned, water management is in fact largely structured by political issues.

The objective of this module is to revisit these issues by observing how water is the subject of debate and controversy, how a series of collective problems are constructed around it and, ultimately, how water policies are concretely constructed.

Continuous control

Prior reading of the synthesis manual Les politiques de l'eau (Barone S., Mayaux P.-L., Les politiques de l'eau, Paris, LGDJ, 2019)

• Session 1 : " Introduction : water and politics " and beginning of the course on " The State in water policies " => p. 9-16, p. 25-34, p. 38-40, p. 45-51 = 17 pages

• Session 2 : end of the course on " The State in water policies " => p. 51-54, p. 63-83, p. 85-86, p. 96-98, p. 103-107 = 31 pages

• Session 3: "Local and elected water policies" => p. 57-62, p. 86-96, p. 99-103 = 22 pages

• Session 4: "The effects of water policies" => p. 109-115, p. 116-119, p. 123-125 = 14 pages