B. Richard est spécialisé dans l’étude des systèmes couplés géonaturels et anthropisés. Ses travaux de recherche portent sur une meilleure compréhension des interactions eau-humains sous contrainte hydrologique forte (période de sécheresse, milieux arides). Après des expériences de consultant au PNUE/Plan bleu puis à l’IWMI (projet AfroMaison) sur différents cas d’étude africains (Ouganda, Afrique du Sud), il a travaillé avec l’IRD au Maroc où il a notamment coordonné l’observatoire agro-hydro-météorologique du bassin du Tensift. Sa thèse réalisée conjointement au sein des unités G-eau et RiverLy de l’INRAE a mis en œuvre des méthodes de terrain (diagnostic agraire, entretiens) et de modélisation (couplage entre modèles biophysiques et modèle agent) pour représenter les interactions/rétroactions eau-plantes-irrigants à des échelles spatio-temporelles fines au sein d’un bassin sous tension caractéristique du Sud-Est de la France (Buëch). Il travaille dans le cadre du projet RADHY-Buëch (Représentation intégrée des Adaptations individuelles et des Dynamiques HYdrologiques sur le bassin du Buëch) au sein de l'équipe SocioHydro qui s’applique à observer les relations eaux / sociétés et à développer un dialogue tri-partite entre chercheurs de disciplines « socio », chercheurs de disciplines « hydro » et acteurs de l’eau. Il est également affecté à l’équipe « Hydrologie des bassins versants » de l’unité RiverLy (INRAE Lyon) qui développe des outils de modélisation hydrologique distribuée pour la quantification de la ressource en eau et son devenir. Il s’est aussi intéressé aux conflits liés à l’eau dans de grands bassins transfrontaliers (Jourdain, Danube) et au rôle fédérateur des eaux transfrontalières pour la mise en place d’une hydro-diplomatie environementale prévenant les conflits liés à l’eau.

 

B. Richard is specialized in the study of coupled geonatural and anthropized systems. His research work focuses on a better understanding of water-human interactions under strong hydrological constraints (drought periods, arid environments). After working as a consultant for UNEP/Plan Bleu and then for IWMI (AfroMaison project) on various African case studies (Uganda, South Africa), he worked with IRD in Morocco where he coordinated the agro-hydro-meteorological observatory of the Tensift basin. His PhD thesis, carried out jointly within the G-eau and RiverLy units of INRAE, used field methods (agrarian diagnosis, interviews) and modelling (coupling between biophysical and agent models) to represent water-plant-irrigation interactions/retroactions at fine spatio-temporal scales within a typical river basin of South-East France (Buëch). He works in the framework of the RADHY-Buëch project (Integrated Representation of Individual Adaptations and Hydrological Dynamics in the Buëch basin) within the SocioHydro team, which aims at observing water/society relationships and developing a tripartite dialogue between researchers from "socio" disciplines, researchers from "hydro" disciplines and water stakeholders. He is also assigned to the "Watershed Hydrology" team of the RiverLy unit (INRAE Lyon) which develops distributed hydrological modeling tools for the quantification of water resources and their future. He is also interested in water-related conflicts in large transboundary river basins (Jordan, Danube) and in the unifying role of of environmental hydro-diplomacy to prevent water conflicts.

 

FORMATION

Ingénieur agronome (spécialité gestion des ressources naturelles)

Diplomé de Sciences Po Toulouse (master en géopolitique des ressources naturelles)

Doctorat en sciences de l’eau (préparé à AgroParisTech)

 

PRINCIPALES PUBLICATIONS (orcid.org/0000-0001-6797-2419)

Articles in peer-reviewed journal

Richard, B., Bonté, B., Veyssier, J., Braud, I., Barreteau, O. and Branger, F., in prep. A method for coupling natural water resources and agent trajectories (COWAT) to consider their local interactions under institutional arrangements.

Richard, B., Barreteau, O., Bonté, B. and Braud, I., in prep. Representations of human action in agricultural agent-based models: A review. Agricultural Systems.

Richard, B., Bonté, B., Delmas, M., Braud, I., Barreteau, O., Cheviron, C. and Veyssier, J., under review. A framework for coupling plant and agent trajectories (COPAT) to support irrigation coordination strategies. Agricultural Water Management.

Richard, B., Bonté, B., Barreteau, O. and Braud, I., under review. A situated agent-based model to reveal irrigators’ options behind their actions under institutional arrangements in Southern France. Socio-environmental Systems Modelling.

Richard, B., 2021. Les eaux transfrontalières fédératrices d’une hydro-diplomatie environnementale ? Analyse comparée du Danube et du Jourdain. Vertigo. 20 (3), pp. https://doi.org/10.4000/vertigo.28931

Richard, B., Bonté, B., Barreteau, O. and Braud, I., 2020. The abandonment of water daily slot and its operational consequences on collective irrigated systems. A situational multi-agent approach applied to a gravity-fed canal of Middle-Durance (France). La Houille Blanche – Revue Internationale de l’Eau. 4: 43–55. https://doi.org/10.1051/lhb/2020033

Collard, A-L., Riaux, J., Massuel, S., Bonté, B., Laurenceau, M., Richard, B. and Rivière-Honegger, A., 2020. Construire un regard socio-hydrologique (3). Expérimenter un canevas pour engager la négotiation interdisciplinaire. Nature Sciences et Sociétés. 28(4), pp.

Bouras, E., Jarlan, L., Er-Raki, S., Albergel, C., Richard, B., Balaghi, R. and Khabba, S., 2020. Linkages between rainfed cereal production and agricultural drought in Morocco through remote sensing indices and a Land Data Assimilation System. Remote Sensing. 12(24), 4018. https://d>oi.org/10.3390/rs12244018.

Sauquet, E., Richard, B., Devers, A. and Prudhomme, C., 2019. Water restrictions under climate change: A Rhône-Mediterranean perspective combining bottom-up and top-down approaches. Hydrological and Earth System Sciences. 23: 3683–3710. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3683-2019.

Hajhouji, Y., Simmoneaux, V., Gascoin, S., Fakir, Y., Richard, B., Chehbouni, G., and Boudhar, A., 2018. Rainfall-runoff modeling and hydrological regime analysis of a semi-arid snow-influenced catchment: Case of the Rheraya River (High Atlas, Morocco). La Houille Blanche - Revue Internationale de l’Eau. 3:49-62. https://doi.org/10.1051/lhb/2018032.

Jarlan, L., Khabba, S., Er-Raki, S., LePage, M., Hanich, L., Fakir, O., Merlin, O. […], Richard, B., Fanise, P., Kasbani, M., Chakir, A., Zribi, M., Marah, H., Mokssit, A., Kerr, Y. and Escadafal, R., 2015. Remote sensing of water resources in the semi-arid Mediterranean areas: The Joint International Laboratory TREMA, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 36(19-20):4879-4917. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2015.1093198.

Presentations in international seminar

Richard, B., Bonté, B., Barreteau, O., Braud, I, Delmas, M. and Cheviron, B., 2020. A software coupling framework to assess coordination strategies of collective irrigation. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) 2020 Conference. Brussels, Belgium, 14-18 September, 2020.

Richard, B., Bonté, B., Barreteau, O. and Braud, I., 2019. Representing the collective irrigated systems at the operational level in situation of tension for the local sharing of water. UNESCO-SHF International Conference on Drought. Paris, France, 11-13 December, 2019.

Richard, B., Sauquet, E., Devers and A., Prudhomme, C., 2017. Water restrictions under climate change: A bottom-up perspective of the Rhône-Mediterranean district, 10th International Conference on Hydrological Cycle in the Mediterranean Expirement (HYMEX), Barcelona, Spain, 4-7 July, 2017.

Richard, B., Jarlan., L, Abaoui, J., Duchemin, B., Oulddba, A., Mangiarotti, S., LePage, M. and Toure, Y., 2014. Potentials for early prediction of wheat yields in Morocco using large-scale climate indices, EuroMed Crop Monitoring Conference  of UE-JRC (Joint Research Center), Rabat, Morocco, 19-21 November, 2014.