Practices, Social Representations and Behaviours within socio-hydrosystems (PRECOS)

Coordinators: Stefano Farolfi et Marielle Montginoul

 
 
 
The team was born in 2014 based on an observation: experimental analyses in social sciences are of interest for the understanding of social dynamics and the design of instruments or policies for water management.

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The central object of our analyses is the individual behaviour of the actors within socio-hydrosystems. Even though this behaviour takes place in groups, as it often does, we are interested in studying individual choices, the way they evolve, and the factors that influence them. This includes individual behaviours that take into account the strategies of other actors within a group (cooperative and non-cooperative equilibria, for example) and the effect of collective rules established by (endogenous) or imposed on (exogenous) groups. We also study if and under what conditions these individual choices influence the decisions made by the groups and by the institutions that manage the systems within which the actors studied operate and evolve.

photo1 precos The team's work resides on three methodological references used to analyze practices, social representations and behaviours within socio-hydrosystems: quantitative-qualitative surveys, economic evaluation based on stated preferences, and economic experiments. To these references are added hybrid methods, including other disciplines such as social psychology. Hybrid methods constitute an objective per se for the team: to design new methods adapted to the specific situations of research in partnership within socio-hydrosystems.

 

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PRECOS is above all a methodological team. Consequently, the main questions concern the methods and research processes that can be mobilized in order to study the practices and individual behaviours of socio-hydrosystem’ actors. In particular, we address the following questions:

 

 

 

  • How to adapt the proposed methods to the study of socio-hydrosystems?
  • How to open-up the methods used by the team to interdisciplinary approaches?
  • How to implement field experiments in situations where it is difficult to control behavioral variables, in particular in the South?
  • How to combine experimental approaches with other methods of economic analysis or social sciences for research in support of decision-making for water management?
  • What kind of experiments for water economics education?

photo4 precosWithin the projects, "thematic" research questions emerge. They concern the analysis of the behaviour of actors within socio-hydrosystems. Here are a few examples: what is the influence of information (institutional, social) on farmers' willingness to pay for irrigation water? What are the factors that influence the choice of an innovation (complementary irrigation basins for irrigation) in Burkina Faso or the choice of adaptations to the lack of water in Tunisia and Morocco?

 

 

The team fieldworks are those of its members' projects. They range from Metropolitan France to the South of the Mediterranean, to the overseas regions where the UMR G-Eau researchers work. PRECOS partnerships are primarily scientific in nature, but taking into account the applied nature of its research and the orientation towards decision support, collaborations with institutions, political and private decision-makers, producer organizations and irrigators are in place.

 

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2024
23/05

Harvesting Hope: Climate Shocks and Religion in Sub-Saharan Africa

Summary - Presentation

Aisha Bashir and Eva Raiber
28/03

Government fertilizer subsidies, input use, and income: The case of farm households in Senegal

Summary - Presentation

Aymeric Ricome
25/01

EVABIO Project Results: Measuring and Understanding the Impact of Environmental Educational Games

Summary - Presentation

Emmanuel Dubois
2023 
09/11

Réseaux de vérification et diffusion de connaissances agroécologiques traditionnelles ?

Summary - Presentation

Julien Malard
26/06

Social capital and targeted beneficiaries of a development project: A lab in the field experiment in rural Zimbabwe

Summary - Presentation

Amandine Belard
23/05

Framing environmental transitions. How policy actors perceive social-ecological interdependencies?

Presentation - Article

Thomas Bolognesi
30/03

Stated preferences for the evaluation of land use dynamics using hybrid modelling

Appréhender le consentement à payer pour la recharge de la nappe de Crau via un jeu sérieux

Summaries - Presentation 1 - Presentation 2

C Hérivaux - Ph Le Coent (BRGM)

S Morardet

 

 2022
24/11

Collective Decision Making and Uncertainty in Natural Resources: The Role of Relational Quality to Increase Cooperation among Actors

Presentation - Article

M. Brugnach
27/10

Projet Eva-Bio : Mesurer et comprendre l’effet de jeux ludo-éducatifs à thématiques environnementales sur  les changements d’attitudes, de représentations et de comportements

Summary - Presentation

E. Dubois
21/04

Retours d’expériences sur l’utilisation de la méthodologie-Q

Summary

J. Rouillard, D. Jourdain
24/03

Mesurer l’attitude des agriculteurs face au risque : le cas de la gestion individuelle des quotas d’eau dans trois périmètres élémentaires du Sud-Ouest de la France

Summary - Presentation

L. Schneider
 2021
03/12

Séminaire débat - L’économie expérimentale est-elle utile à la recherche pour le développement ?

Programme - Intro_Willinger - Bougherara Presentation - Farolfi Presentation - Instructions Surprise Exp - Results Surprise Exp

S. Dury, T. Le Cotty, M.Willinger,
D.Bougherara, S. Farolfi
14/10

Usage des méthodes quantitatives en psychologie sociale pour l'étude des attitudes et des représentations sociales

Summary - Presentation - Article 1 - Article 2

P. Rateau, D. Priolo
08/07

Restitution des avancées du groupe de travail sur l'évolution de l’outil ACB-DCE

Summary - Presentation

M. Favre
08/04

Natural landscape or cycling facilities: what are ViaRhôna users looking for?

Summary - Presentation - Article

S. Morardet
11/02

Introducing nature into cities or preserving existing peri-urban ecosystems?  Analysis of preferences in a rapidly urbanizing catchment

Summary - Presentation - Article

C. Hérivaux, Ph. Le Coent
2020                  
22/09

Building new kinds of meta-models to analyse experimentally (companion)     modelling processes in the field of natural resource management

Summary - Article

B. Bonté
18/06

Le compteur communicant : Perception des irrigants – le cas du bassin du Louts

Summary - Presentation

P. Garin, M. Montginoul
25/05

Supplemental irrigation from farm ponds to mitigate rainfall variability in the Sahel: Farmers’ preferences and Institutions’ goals in Burkina Faso

Summary- Presentation

R. Ouedraogo
21/04

The building of social capital in rural communities through a development project. A lab-in-the-field analysis in the Limpopo province of South Africa

Summary - Presentation

D. Jourdain, S. Farolfi
12/03  

Can nudges increase the effectiveness of payments for ecosystem services? Evidence from a randomized experiment

Summary - Presentation - Article

Ph. Le Coent
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