Jean-Paul Vanderlinden – CEARC Research Centre

jean-paul.vanderlinden [at] uvsq.fr

Professor in Ecological Economics and Environmental Studies

(mise à jour : 07/2023)

My research lies at the intersection of environmental studies, ecological economics, and the social sciences. It focuses on the relationships between environmental transformations, values, and the futures of human societies. Over the past several years, I have become particularly interested in how individuals and communities understand threats to the continuity of their worlds, and how these experiences shape their conceptions of the future.

This question is the starting point of PREFER, the ERC Advanced Grant project for which I serve as Principal Investigator. PREFER seeks to open up the study of existential risks to empirical inquiry, focusing not on threats to humanity as a whole, but on situations in which people face the possibility of losing what gives meaning and continuity to their existence. We refer to these as local terminal risks. Ethnographic research conducted in Greenland, Vietnam, and Colombia seeks to understand what is threatened, what matters to those concerned, and what they consider an acceptable future.

This work has led me, together with my colleagues, to explore the moral grammars through which people make sense of their experiences. We seek to understand how the principles, values, and obligations that structure social relations shape people’s understanding of change, the decisions they make, and the possibilities they see for continuity. Life stories, interviews, and ethnographic observation are central to this approach. We are also experimenting with forms of narrative restitution, particularly through documentary filmmaking, music, and other productions developed with our interlocutors.

Another dimension of my research concerns the decoloniality of knowledge in the Arctic, particularly in climate science. Within the CLIMARCTIC project, I examine the conditions under which climate knowledge is produced and circulated, from climate modelling to the design and implementation of climate services. These questions concern both power relations in knowledge production and the possibilities for less asymmetrical forms of scientific collaboration.

Research conducted within PREFER also informs my thinking about the relationships between knowledge and public action. Through LIGHT, an ERC Proof of Concept proposal submitted in 2026, I am exploring the possibility of developing research-intervention approaches that allow the diagnoses underpinning policies aimed at preserving habitability to be reconsidered and reformulated. The aim is to start from the understandings of those who inhabit the territories concerned, rather than presupposing what constitutes a habitable future for them.

Finally, these different strands of research are now converging in DEFINING FUTURES, the programme for which I am applying for a research delegation to the Institut universitaire de France. I intend to explore the notion of narrative sovereignty: how is the authority to define realities, problems, and collective futures constituted and exercised? What becomes of this sovereignty as worlds are reconfigured and different ways of world-making come into friction? This programme would build on my previous research while opening up new questions concerning political ontology and the possibilities for research-intervention in situations marked by profound asymmetries of power.

I had a first career as a development project manager in Africa and southeast Asia (1989-1995). I then completed a M.A. in economics (1996, Université de Moncton, New Brunswick) and a PhD in interdisciplinary studies (2002, environmental studies, York University, Toronto). I was hired in 1999 as a professor in environmental studies at Université de Moncton. In 2007, I joined the French university, first as associate professor, and, in 2008 as a full professor.

News

Publication

PhD Thesis Supervision

Scientific leadership

Teachings

July 28, 2022, Interviewed for « Parole publique »
June 22, 2022, Interviewed by Université Paris Saclay communication officer: see here in French and here for English.
May 12, 2022, just back from 2 weeks of fieldwork in Ho Ci Minh City, and in the Mekong Delta, we also networked in order to launch future edcation cetred partnerships.
April 29, 2022, it is now Official the ERC Advanced Grant project that I developed is funded!!! See here!
April 2nd, 2022, just back from a 2 weeks research stay in California: San Francisco and Berkeley, including field observations in Sacramento.
March 10, 2022, Natalia Doloisio defended her PhD thesis, such a joy!
March 7, 2022, an interview conducted by the GREC Francilien has bee published on its web page. The objectives of the Ile-de-France GREC (GREC Francilien) are to formalize knowledge into major guiding principles that can be used by stakeholders to decide on land-use planning operations.
March 1, 2022, I have been auditioned by members of the « Institut des hautes études de défense nationalez (IHEDN), the subject of tis audition was titled « Climate change and the maritime domain: communication strategies towards populations and public opinions. » The mission of the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN) is to promote a culture of defense, to participate in the strengthening of national cohesion, and to contribute to the development of strategic thinking on defense and security issues.
February 10, 2022, two video talks given in UC Berkeley’s Social Science Matrix Workshop: “The Residual Risks of Extreme Floods: A Challenge for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals” One video on conceptualizing the interplay between residual risk and sustainability (with Charlotte Da Cunha and Charlotte Heinzlef) click here to view this video in Vimeo. One video on residual flood risk management in Ho Chi Minh City click here to view this video on Vimeo.
February 7, 2022, acceptation of the paper entitled « 10 years and going strong? Coastal flood risk management in the wake of a major coastal event (the 2010 Xynthia storm, Charente Maritime, France) » authored by Estelle Rouhaud and myself and that will be publishjed in Climate Risk Management (Elsevier). Nice!
February 1st, 2022, invited to talk about existential risks, perceptions, ant political inaction as part of Patrice Carmouze talk show « PAF, » on TV78 – starts @ 1min12sec
January 24, 2022, acceptation of the paper entitled « »Knowledge and its legitimacy, a (meta)ethical framework-based analysis of coastal flooding risks in a changing climate and associated narratives » authored by myself, Estelle Rouhaud and Nabil Touili is accepted. Priming the pump for further work on lay ethics in the face environmental upheavals. It will be published very soon by Frontiers in Climate Science.
January 18 to 22, 2022: Data analysis retreat for the SeMPER-Arctic project. Embracing fascinating interview corpora from the Arctic – pure joy.
January 8, 2022: Excerpts of my interview on my interpretation of « Don’t Look Up » with FranceTV’s Camille Adaoust are being published here: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/meteo/climat/don-t-look-up-on-a-demande-a-des-specialistes-du-changement-climatique-ce-qu-ils-pensaient-du-film_4906451.html
January 3rd, 2022: We are starting two weeks of intensive, full time, work with my 2nd year master degree in « Adaptation to climate change » students. They sure are smart.
December 15, 2021: CoCliServ, that I had the pleasure to coordinate got a honorable mention at the JPI Climate Excellence Award for Social Impact 2021. This is a very nice recognition of the power of transdisciplinary narrative-based interventions.
December 7, 2021: I have been invited to present the methodological lessons learned in the implementation of Transdisciplinary art and science narrative interventions. We have developed these for the past 10 years and we have reached quite a maturity. This presentation was made in the course of The University of Bergen Environmental Humanities research group seminar.
November 30, 2021: Publication of a reference undergrad textbook on ecological transition. I authored 1 chapter and co-authored a second: Lourtioz, J.-M., Lecomte, J., Szopa, S., Even, C., & Roux, G. (Eds.). (2021). Enjeux de la transition écologique. Enseigner la transition écologique aux étudiants de licence à l’université. Paris: edp sciences.
November 29, 2021: I was elected chair of Clara de la Hoz del Real PhD dissertation Jury
November 24, 2021: Michael Delauney, PhD Candidate working under the joint supervision of Professeur Stéphane Roussel (ENAP Montreal) and myself, defended his PhD dissertation entitled: « Internet in the Canadian Arctic, a soft power issue for the federal government and the Inuit »
November 10, 2021: Presented the RREFlood project to the French members of Pathways2020 funded project consortiums, invited by the Belmont Forum Secretariat.
October 29, 2021: A long interview with FranceInfo is published. I talk about risk perception and the importance of respect when conversing on risk.
October 14, 2021: I had the privilege of being invited to present our work (ARTisticc project) at the Annual General Meeting of ALLENVI France’s association of sustainability science operators.
September 22, 2021: I presented the results of the COCliServ project to te funding agencies of the ERA4CS initiative.
September 21, 2021: I was invited to give a keynote address at the « International forum on transitions » that has been organized as part of Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA) 50th birthday.
September 20, 2021: I presented intermediary results of work that I am conducting on sustainability in the Arctic at the internal seminar of the Senter for vitenskapsteori at the University of Bergen.
September 20, 2021: I participated, live, for an hour, in « Culture Monde, » France Cuture’s generalist radio show. We discussed flood risk in general, and flood risk in the face of climate change in particular. Al the week is dedicated to adaptation to climate change.
September 16 2021: I had the privilege to serve on the Habilitation Jury of Dr. Elsa Lafaye de Michaud. Dr. Lafaye de Michaud presented 25 years of results associated to her research in Malaysia and South-East Asia. She also presented a fascinating research program for the years to come. The habilitation thesis was entitled: DU DÉVELOPPEMENT MALAISIEN À LA PROJECTION CHINOISE EN ASIE DU SUD-EST UNE ÉCONOMIE INSTITUTIONNALISTE DE TERRAIN. (FROM MALAYSIAN DEVELOPMENT TO CHINESE PROJECTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AN INSTITUTIONALIST FIELD-BASED ECONOMIC RESERACH PROGRAM). Elsa Lafaye-De Michaud is now holder of the title of HDR. Congratulation!
September 16, 2021:
media coverage, I have been cited by 20 minutes.fr : « Jean-Paul Vanderlinden, professor of economics at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, looked into this phenomenon. « We have a lot of objective inequalities [access to goods, services, etc.] that have been created by the health crisis. When we see the results, we wonder whether it will not also create subjective inequalities, » particularly in the way people perceive the future. Optimism differs considerably between age groups. However, « the ability to project oneself into the future is what makes our city’s potential, as much as the ability to generate wealth. » »
The same event has been covered by the « Journal du Grand Paris » with the following citation : « Jean-Paul Vanderlinden, professor of economics at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, notes: « Between Paris and its inner suburbs, there is an inversion between optimism in the common good – which is the order of the day in the inner suburbs – and the personal standard of living – the inhabitants of Paris intramuros are clearly more enthusiastic in this respect.«
September 15, 2021: I had the privilege to be invited to to give insight, in the course a broadly advertised public event, on the results of a large scale post Covid-19 comparative survey conducted in London and Paris. I focused of the concept of optimism. I discussed how the Covid-19 year may have impacted differentially the optimism expressed by various age groups and by varying socio-economic categories. I stressed the dual nature of optimism: (a) a source of current well being and (b) a direct source of future potential. I also insisted on the need to repeat this comparative survey regularly in order to gain insight on the dynamic nature of what has been observed.
September 15, 2021: we had the second meeting of the RREFlood project. On the agenda site presentations and task presentations. Ha, Nhat and myself we presented the Ho Chi Minh Field Site. While Charlotte Da Cunha, Charlotte Heinzlef and myself we presented task 4, its theoretical underpinning, analytical stance and foreseen datasets.
September 7, 2021: I presented the work that I conducted with Anne Blanchard et Kari De Pryck to the seminar on Interdisciplnary research organized by the research center « Laboratoire EcoSystèmes et Sociétés En Montagne. » This was a unique opportunity to reflect on the progresses made in streamlining interdisciplinary practices within ecosystem centered research. Other speaker were Cédric Gaucherel (Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement), Cécilia Claeys (Aix Marseille Université.), and Nicolas Salliou (ETH Zurich ).

Publications

Articles dans des revues à comité de lecture-Chaptire d’ouvrage / Peer reviewed journal articles – Book chapters

Co-direction d’ouvrages collectifs / Edited Books

Book Chapters

Bastien-Daigle, S., Vanderlinden, J.-P., & Chouinard, O. (2011). Les perceptions de la mise en oeuvre d’une gesiton intégrée en zone côtière au Canada Atlantique. In O. Chouinard, J. Baztan, & J.-P. Vanderlinden (Eds.), Zones côtières et changements climatiques: les défis de la gestion intégrée (pp. 79-97). Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Baztan, J., Jorgensen, B., Vanderlinden, J.-P., Pahl, S., Thompson, R., Carrasco, A., . . . Paul-Pont, I. (2015). Protected shores contaminated with plastic: From knowledge to action. In J. Baztan, O. Chouinard, B. Jorgensen, P. Tett, J.-P. Vanderlinden, & L. Vasseur (Eds.), Coastal Zones: Solutions for the 21st Century (pp. 185-195). New-York: Elsevier.
Chouinard, O., Baztan, J., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2011). Conclusion: Les zones côtières face au changement climatique. In O. Chouinard, J.-P. Vanderlinden, & J. Baztan (Eds.), Les zones côtières face au changement climatique: le défi de la gestion intégrée (pp. 231-234). Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Chouinard, O., Baztan, J., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2011). Introduction: Les zones côtières face au changement climatique. In O. Chouinard, J.-P. Vanderlinden, & J. Baztan (Eds.), Les zones côtières face au changement climatique: le défi de la gestion intégrée (pp. 1-12). Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Chouinard, O., Delusca, K., Tramblay, M., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2006). Les enjeux de la gouvernance environnementale locale dans les communautés côtières du sud-est du N.-B. dus à l’augmentation du niveau de la mer dans le contexte des changements climatiques. In A. Magord (Ed.), Adaptation et innovation : expériences acadiennes contemporaines (pp. 181-193). Berne: Peter Lang.
Chouinard, O., Desjardins, P.-M., Forgues, E., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2003). La gestion environnementale du bassin versant de la baie de Caraquet. In C. Gendron & J.-G. Vaillancourt (Eds.), Développement durable et participation publique (pp. 287-305). Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal.
Chouinard, O., Martin, G., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2006). La gouvernance et l’adaptation au changement climatique : le cas du sud-est du Nouveau-Brunswick. In M. Simard, D. Lafontaine, S. Savard, M. Tremblay, & P.-A. Tremblay (Eds.), Inégalités, démocratie et développement : Des enjeux pour la gouvernance des territoires locaux et régionaux (pp. 273-287). Rimouski: UQAR, ARUC-ÉS-CRDT-GRIDEQ-GRIR.
Chouinard, O., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2007). La transformation des communautés de pêcheurs de la côte atlantique canadienne et acadienne du Nouveau-Brunswick : une explication à partir de l’analyse » régulationniste » et des mouvements sociaux. In C. Gendron & J.-G. Vaillancourt (Eds.), Environnement et sciences sociales: les défis de l’interdisciplinarité (pp. 311-333). Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval.
Hissel, F., Baztan, J., Bichot, A., Olivier Brivois, Felts, D., Heurtefeux, H., . . . Vanderlinden, J. P. (2015). Managing Risk in a Large Flood System, the Gironde Estuary, France. In B. Zanuttigh, R. Nichols, J.-P. Vanderlinden, H. F. Burcharth, & R. C. Thomson (Eds.), Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate (pp. 408-442). London: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann.
Koundouri, P., Zanuttigh, B., Davila, O. G., Vanderlinden, J. P., Hanson, S., Nicholls, R., . . . Penning-Rowsell, E. (2015). Toward Sustainable Decision Making. In B. Zanuttigh, R. Nichols, J.-P. Vanderlinden, H. F. Burcharth, & R. C. Thomson (Eds.), Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate (pp. 275-323). London: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann.
Nicholls, R., Zanuttigh, B., Vanderlinden, J. P., Ralf Weisse, Silva, R., Hanson, S., . . . Koundouri, P. (2015). Developing a Holistic Approach to Assessing and Managing Coastal Flood Risk. In B. Zanuttigh, R. Nichols, J.-P. Vanderlinden, H. F. Burcharth, & R. C. Thomson (Eds.), Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate (pp. 9-54). London: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann.
Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2000). Conflicts and cooperation over the commons: A conceptual and methodological framework for assessing the role of local institutions. In N. McCarthy, B. Swallow, M. Kirk, & P. Hazell (Eds.), Property rights, risk, & livestock development in Africa (pp. 276-296). Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute.
Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2000). The Niger Case Study. In N. McCarthy, B. Swallow, M. Kirk, & P. Hazell (Eds.), Property rights, risk, & livestock development in Africa (pp. 351-370). Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute.
Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2001). Chocs environnementaux, structure des droits de propriété et économie agro-pastorale dans le sud-ouest du Niger. In EricTielkes, E. Schlecht, & P. Hiernaux (Eds.), Élevage et gestion de parcours au Sahel, implications pour le développement (pp. 275-281). Stuttgart: Verlag Ulrich E. Grauer.
Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2001). Environnement institutionnel local et gestion des terres de parcours dans la région agro-pastorale du sud-ouest du Niger. In E. Tielkes, E. Schlecht, & P. Hiernaux (Eds.), Élevage et gestion de parcours au Sahel, implications pour le développement (pp. 155-163). Stuttgart: Verlag Ulrich E. Grauer.
Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2003). Processus multipartite de collaboration et planification régionale du développement viable: une question d’échelle? Comparaison du bassin versant de la rivière Bouctouche (Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada) et du bassin versant du sud du Golfe du St.-Laurent (Canada). In A. Magord (Ed.), L’Acadie plurielle (pp. 963-974). Moncton: Centre d’études acadiennes.
Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2011). Former des étudiants aux métiers de l’environnement. In Collectif ADRET (Ed.), La révolution des métiers verts (pp. 132-136). Paris: Autrement.
Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2015) Prévoir l’imprévu. In Gemenne, F. (Ed.), L’enjeu mondial. L’environnement. Presses de Sciences Po, Paris.
Vanderlinden, J.-P., Baztan, J., Coates, T., Davila, O. G., Hissel, F., Kane, I. O., . . . Touil, N. (2015). Nonstructural approaches to coastal risk mitigations. In B. Zanuttigh, R. Nichols, J.-P. Vanderlinden, H. F. Burcharth, & R. C. Thomson (Eds.), Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate (pp. 237-274). London: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann.
Vanderlinden, J.-P., & Chouinard, O. (2006). Gestion intégrée des zones côtières du nord et de l’est du Nouveau-Brunswick: Un programme de recherche au service de communautés dans un contexte d’adaptation et d’innovation. . In A. Magord (Ed.), Adaptation et innovation : expériences acadiennes contemporaines (pp. 206-219). Berne: Peter Lang.
Vanderlinden, J.-P., Chouinard, O., Friolet, R., & Audet, M. (2006). De la parole actes : le défi de la mise en œuvre de la gestion intégrée pour le bureau régional du Golfe de Pêches et Océans Canada. In A. Magord (Ed.), Adaptation et innovation : expériences acadiennes (pp. 207-219). Berne: P. Lang.
Vanderlinden, J.-P., & Friolet, R. (2011). Gestion intégrée de la zone côtière dans un contexte aquacole. L’expérience de la baie de Caraquet, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada. In O. Chouinard, J.-P. Vanderlinden, & J. Baztan (Eds.), Les zones côtières face au changement climatique: le défi de la gestion intégrée (pp. 57-78). Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Vanderlinden, J.-P., Quenet, G., Da Cunha, C., & Baztan, J. (2015). Paradigm shifts, coastal zones and adaptation to fast paced change: Moving toward transdisciplinary community centred approaches. In J. Baztan, O. Chouinard, B. Jorgensen, P. Tett, J.-P. Vanderlinden, & L. Vasseur (Eds.), Coastal Zones: Solutions for the 21st Century (pp. 3-9). New-York: Elsevier.

2008-2011	Secondary (50%) Anne Blanchard : Reflexive interdisciplinarity : Supporting dialogue on the role of science for climate change. (joint international supervision with Bergen University, thesis principal supervisor prof. Roger Strand). In 2024: https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Anne.Bremer
2009-2013	Secondary (50%) Fanny Verrax : Making sense of rare earth elements : electronic participation, ethics and citizen’s mobilization. (joint international supervision with Bergen University, thesis principal supervisor prof. Roger Strand). In 2024: https://em-lyon.com/en/fanny-verrax/briefly
2009-2016	Principal (50%) Diatou Thiaw : Adaptation au changement climatique : suivi environnemental et social de l’utilisation de l’espace et des ressources naturelles en zones littorales : la Commune de M’bour et ses environs. (joint international supervision with Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, thesis co-supervisor prof. Alioune kane). In 2024: https://www.umi-source.uvsq.fr/diatou-thiaw
2010-2016	Nabil Touili : Résilience: évaluation des options de gouvernance pour la lutte contre les conséquences des inondations dans l’estuaire de la Gironde. In 2024: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabil-touili-6b530052/
2010-2016	Idrissa Kane : Le concept de résilience, sa généalogie et son utilisation dans le cadre de l’adaptation littorale au changement climatique.
2015-2019	Principal (50%) Vivien Dépouès : Sciences du climat et analyse économique de l’adaptation au changement climatique pour les infrastructures (thesis co-supervisor Tommaso Venturini, Medialab, Sciences Po)
2015-2018	Principal (50%) Magali Vulierme : Frontière arctique, enjeux stratégique et population autochtones – Co-direction avec Stéphane Roussel, Université du Québec à Montréal. In 2024: https://www.naadsn.ca/people/dr-magali-vullierme/
2015-2016	Secondary (20%) Maxence Rojo : Climat arctique, les « Polar Low », de leur occurance à leurs impact, une analyse climato-anthropologique (thesis co-supervisor Alexandra Lavrillier, Laboratoire CEARC, thesis principal supervisor Chantal Claud)
2015-2021	Principal (50%) Michael Delaunay : Développement du Nord extrême et infrastructures de transmission de données. (thesis co-supervisor Stéphane Roussel, Université du Québec à Montréal)
2014-2019	Camille Gérome : Comment s’inspirer des initiatives de transition pour favoriser le développement de capacité d’adaptation ?
2018-2021	Secondary (50 %) Florentin Breton: Co-development of place-based climate services for action in 5 case studies (thesis principal supervisors Mathieu Vrac)
2019-present	Secondary (50 %) Lyubov Barabanskaia: Exploitation of natural resources in the Russian Arctic with taking into consideration indigenous peoples (Principal supervisor Jean-Paul Markus)
2018-2022	Principal (40 %) Natalia Doloisio: Social and economic impacts of permafrost thaw in the Siberian Arctic (thesis co-supervisors Charlotte Da Cunha and Mateo Cordier)
2020-2023	Principal (50 %) Sébastien Walczyszyn: The demonstrative approach: instrumenting the dissemination of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation (thesis co-supervisor François Gemenne)
2020-present	Principal (50 %) Ibrahim Mamadou Ibrahim: Evaluation of the determinants of exposure and vulnerability to flood risk: toward the design of synthetic, rapid appraisal, idnciators, the case of Niamey (Niger). (thesis co-supervisor Bruno Barroca)
2020-2024	Principal (50 %) Tanguy Sandré: Narratives and Resilience,Environmental Change and Sensemaking in the Arctic: West and East Greenland Coast Case Studies (thesis co-supervisors Jeanne Gherardi and Arjan Wardekker)
2023-present	Secondary (50 %) Chloe Dhaille: Women in Venecia (Cundinamarca) and the rural way of life: a case study at the intersection between gender and local terminal risk. (thesis co-supervisor Yorghos Remvikos)
2024-present	Principal (50%) Thi Minh ha Bui: Communities facing terminal threats: case studies from the Mekong Delta. (thesis co-supervisor Charlotte Da Cunha)

2022-present	Lead principal investigator « Deciphering the lay ethics of terminal risks: locall terminal risks as PRoxiEs For Existential Risks (PREFER), ERC AdG 2021.
2022-present	Principal investigator, Des impacts régionaux aux impacts globaux du changement climatique en Arctique : une perspective interdisciplinaire (CLIMARCTIC), PPR Océan
2017-2022	Lead principal investigator « Codevelopment of place-based climate services » (CoCliServ), project funded through ERA4CS.
2017-2023	Principal investigator « Permafrost thaw and the changing arctic coast: science for socio-economic adaptation program » (Nunataryuk), project funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.
2015-2025	Elected director, Cultures Environments, Arctic, Representations, Climate research center (CEARC, EA 4455, UVSQ)
2015-2016	Lead principal investigator « Climate Extremes on the Plateau de Saclay » (ECLIPS) project funded by the 2015 Diagonale Paris-Saclay call for proposals.
2014-2017	Lead principal investigator « Adaptation Research: a Transdisciplinary Community and Policy Centred Approach » (ARTisticc), project funded by the Belmont International Opportunity Fund.
2014-2017	Principal Investigator, responsible for two work tasks, « EUropean CLimate and weather Events: Interpretation and Attribution » (EUCLEIA) project, funded by the 7^th framework program for RTD of the EU.
2013-present	Theme leader « Transdisciplinarity Adaptation Climate Environments Society », CEARC research centre.
2012-present	Founding member of the Environmental humanities portal. Founding member of the “Narratives of change” international collective. Founding member of the Inflexion Art-Science-Policy collective.
2010-2005	Member, Scientific advisory board, GIS Climat Environnement Société, scientific consortium
2010-2020	Representing UVSQ’s president, Board of Director, Université Virtuelle Environnement et Développement Durable (UNT UVED).
2010-present	Member, Environment National Working Group.
2015	Project evaluation, Nantes University, 2015 interdisciplinary call for proposal. Project evaluation, Grenoble University « Alpes Grenoble Innovation Recherche » (AGIR) 2015 call for proposals
2014, 2019, 2024	Writing of the five year plan for the CEARC research Centre
2014	Project evaluation for the “Fonds Recherche du Québec.”
2013-2014	Deputy director, CEARC research centre.
2010-2013	Deputy director, REEDS research centre. Theme leader, « Environments Sciences Society » REEDS Research centre.
2009-2013	Principal Investigator, responsible for one work package, « Innovative technologies for safer European coasts in a changing climate » (THESEUS) project, funded by the 7^th framework program for RTD of the EU.
2009-2013	Stakeholder workshop organisation, « Quantifying CO2 emissions in the Greater Paris Area » (CO2 Mega Paris), funded by the French National Research Agency, ANR.
2010-2011	Project evaluation for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
2009-2011	Principal Investigator, responsible for three « work packages » « a Transdisciplinary approach to the Emerging CHallenges of NOvel technologies: Lifeworld and Imaginaries in Foresight and Ethics » (TECHNOLIFE) project, funded by the 7^th framework program for RTD of the EU.
2008-2011	Lead principal investigator « Recherche, animation mobilisation des savoirs » (RAMONS) project, funded by the GIS Climat Environnement Société.
2009-2010	Lead principal investigator « Trames vertes et changement climatique » (CCTV) project, funded by the GIS Climat Environnement Société.

Classroom teaching

Course title (all course in French except when indicated)	Level	Years	“TD” equivalent hours
Ecological economics and environmental risks (new course)	Jointly 3rd year Bachelor and first year Master	2009-14	36
Risk economics and vulnerability (new course, team design)	first year Master	2010-14	14
Environmental management	first year Master	2011-12	7,5
System analysis and integrated modeling (in English, new course, team design)	first year Master	2009-14	13-23
Society and environmental science (in English, new course, team design)	first year Master	2010-14	9-15
Epistemology and ethics for environment and development (new course, team design)	first year Master	2015	18
Methods and tools for economic valuation (in English, new course, team design)	second year Master	2009-12	12-15
Risk and environment	second year Master	2011-14	15
Participatory tools and methods 1 : Typologies	second year Master	2009-12	31,5
Participatory tools and methods 2 : Lessons form experience	second year Master	2009-12	31,5-36
Integrated environmental management: Coastal zones	second year Master	2009-12	27-30
Climate change adaptation	second year Master	since 2015	19,5
Knowledge mobilisation	second year Master	since 2015	19,5
Foresight and scenario planning	second year Master	since 2015	19,5

E-learning, distance education

2011 Development on one complete online course: Coastal zones and sustainanbility

2014 Development of 2 lessons for the course Adaptation to climate change and sea level rise, a global perspective.

2014 Development with François Gemenne of one course « Global public goods »

2015 Development of three complete online courses : Adaptation, Foresight and scenario, Knowledge mobilisation.