Reterritorializing local water management in France: the implementation of the "Gemapi" reform in the Montpellier metropolitan area

Les cartes redistribuées de la gestion locale de l’eau: la mise en œuvre de la réforme « Gemapi » dans l’aire métropolitaine montpelliéraine

Sylvain Barone () and Stéphane Ghiotti ()
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Sylvain Barone: UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - AgroParisTech - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro Montpellier - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Stéphane Ghiotti: UMR ART-Dev - Acteurs, Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UM - Université de Montpellier

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Abstract: An important evolution has occurred in local water management since 2014 with the so-called Gemapi reform (management of aquatic environments and flood prevention) and its deployment at the local level. This reform upsets the balance between institutions and redistributes the cards between the various actors involved in this management, especially between the inter-municipalities and the watershed institutions. The objective of this paper is to better understand the modalities, the scope and the meaning of these reconfigurations, based on a case study of the Montpellier area. To do this, it proposes to analyze how the Gemapi reform was implemented, by placing this process in a specific local context and management trajectory. Two main lessons emerge: a lack of clarification of roles; a trend towards the affirmation of inter-municipalities and the weakening of watershed institutions, some of the implications of which we will mention.

Keywords: Gemapi; water; governance; inter-municipality; watershed institutions; Montpellier; gouvernance; intercommunalités; syndicats de bassin-versant; eau (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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Published in Développement durable et territoires, 2023, Socio-économie écologique et dynamiques territoriales, 14 (1), pp.22090. ⟨10.4000/developpementdurable.22106⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/developpementdurable.22106

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