Call for Expressions of Interest – Water Governance as a Socially Just Common Good Including Non-Human Living Systems [CLOSED]

In the context of global changes and increasing climatic and anthropogenic pressures on socio-hydrosystems, PC7 – Governance of the OneWater – Eau Bien Commun programme aims to rethink water governance by conceiving water as a living commons that is socially just and inclusive of non-human entities.

The project builds on a theoretical and interdisciplinary framework developed during the first phase of PC7, which helped to bring together a scientific community around water commons, ecological and social justice, and the representation of non-human entities. Phase 2 now aims to move toward an operational phase of analysis, experimentation, and evaluation of governance arrangements in pilot territories.

This Call for Expressions of Interest (AMI) aims to encourage collaborative projects involving researchers and water governance stakeholders, focusing on the experimentation and/or evaluation of governance approaches that conceive water as a common good, addressing one or more of the following priority scientific axes:

• Strengthen and test interdisciplinary analytical frameworks for water governance as a common good, combining social sciences, legal studies, ecological sciences, and territorial studies
• Develop and test adaptive and inclusive governance arrangements, explicitly integrating humans and non-humans into decision-making processes
• Design and experiment with tools, indicators, and protocols that ensure a fair representation of ecological and social issues in decision-making
• Assess the transferability and robustness of these governance arrangements across contrasted territories in mainland France and overseas territories

Proposals must be grounded in a conception of water as a common good, integrating both human and non-human living systems, and must be anchored in one or several clearly identified territories, in close collaboration with local water governance stakeholders.

Financement : Seed funding is available to support the initial phases of experimentation (up to €15,000 per action). Larger funding schemes (PhD positions, postdoctoral positions, monitoring and evaluation activities) may be considered at a later stage, depending on the results of the seed phase and, whenever possible, based on co-funding arrangements.

                                                                           The call for proposals is now closed.

Proposals should be sent to: olivier.barreteau@inrae.fr, catherine.baron@sciencespo-toulouse.fr et gwenael.imfeld@cnrs.fr