European River Network Roundtable on "new solutions for flood management" - Paris 8 decembre 2017


Among other participants were the Ministry of Environnement (DGPR – Risk prevention directorate), EPTB Seine Grands Lac, the Seine Normandie Water Agency, the Syndicat de rivière de l’Yvette (SIAHVY) and UICN France.
The ministry spoke about the “commission mixte inondation” as a place for debate for new flood prevention works before they are alloited a public funding.  The idea of living with the risk was also raised. IUCN presented their work and vision about the role of both protection, NGO / citizens implication and nature based solutions such as renaturing rivers for reducing the damages of future floods. They presented the emergence of the NBS concept: it appeared with MEA in 2005, then UICN lobbied to integrate NBS in climate change adaptation agendas; and they announced the 2020 World Nature in Marseille. The idea of building on different conceptual frame was raised. The director of EPTB Seine Grands Lacs recalled the change of paradigm that was happening in the management of the flood problem : a shift from a top-down approach (state is in a prescribing role of hydraulic engineering solutions) to a bottom up approach where local communities imagine solutions for their territory. The state helps the process with the PAPI instrument to arbitrate and finance the flood prevention measures (still a lot of renewing of old protection works). The SIAHVY presented the process by which the Yvette river was renatured (only private owners of the river banks) and the efficiency has been already proven by 2016 floods with no damages to be declared. The role of stakeholder engagement and social barriers/levers was raised. The AESN water agency presented how their climate change adaptation plan integrates NBS. The climate change group from GENERALII illustrated the will of the insurance industry to work on prevention and develops scientific means to inform industry on climate change impacts. The concept of MEDICANE was also put on the table…the potential hurricanes that will face the Mediterranean area with climate change.

Last NAIAD was presently very shortly and it rose a lot of interest. We had many interesting contacts at the end among which UICN France, EPTB Seine Grand Lac, IUA (Institut d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme), PIREN Seine and European Rivers Network…

Nina

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