Water Resource Systems), Dr. Matthieu Couttenier (ENS de Lyon), Dr. Simon Dufour (Université Rennes 2), Dr. Coleen Fox (Dartmouth College), Julien Gauthey (Office Français de la Biodiversité), Dr. Ana González Besteiro (Université Lyon 3), Dr. Lesley Head (The University of Melbourne), Dr. Md Sayed Iftekhar (The University of Western Australia), Dr. Natacha Jacquin (Office International de l’Eau), Dr. Eleftheria Kampa (Ecologic Institute, Germany), Dr. G. Mathias Kondolf (University of California, Berkeley), Dr. Yves‐François Le Lay (ENS de Lyon), Dr. Laurent Lespez (Université Paris‐Est Créteil Val de Marne), Dr. Susanne Muhar (BOKU, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences), Dr. Clare Palmer (Texas A&M University), Dr. Samantha Scholte (Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau), Dr. Nick Schuelke (University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee), Dr. Kate Sherren (Dalhousie University), Dr. Marc Tadaki (Cawthron Institute), Dr. Amie O. West (University of Arkansas), Dr. Joanna Zawiejska (Pedagogical University of Cracow)
List of Contributors
John C. Bergstrom University of Georgia Athens GAUSA
Kirsty L. Blackstock Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Department The James Hutton Institute Aberdeen Scotland
Brendon Blue School of Environment University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand
Kerstin Böck Universität für Bodenkultur Wien Institut für Hydrobiologie und Gewässermanagement (IHG) Vienna Austria
Gabrielle Bouleau Université Gustave Eiffel Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovation Société (LISIS), CNRS, ESIEE, INRAE, UGE Marne‐la‐Vallée France
Gary Brierley School of Environment University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand
Matthias Buchecker Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Unit Economics and Social Sciences Birmensdorf Switzerland
Arjen Buijs Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
Nora S. Buletti USYS TdLab ETH, Zürich Switzerland
John Cain River Partners Chico CA USA
Catherine Carré Université Paris 1 Panthéon‐Sorbonne Paris France
Caitriona Carter UR ETBX INRAE Centre de Nouvelle Aquitaine Bordeaux Cestas Cedex France
Emeline Comby Université de Lyon CNRS ENS de Lyon Environnement Ville Société Lyon France
Marylise Cottet Université de Lyon CNRS ENS de Lyon Environnement Ville Société Lyon France
Henry Dicks Faculté de Philosophie Université Jean Moulin Lyon Lyon France
Ludovic Drapier Université Paris Est Créteil UMR 8591 CNRS Laboratoire de Géographie physique Meudon France
Olivier Ejderyan USYS TdLab ETH, Zürich Switzerland
Silvia Flaminio Institut de Géographie et Durabilité Université de Lausanne Géopolis Lausanne Suisse
Xavier Garcia Barcelona Institute of Regional and Metropolitan Studies Cerdanyola del Vallès Spain
Marie‐Anne Germaine Université Paris Nanterre Nanterre UMR 7218 CNRS LAVUE France
Christopher Gibbins School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia
Jean‐Paul Haghe Rouen University Rouen France
Dan Hikuroa Te Wānanga o Waipapa University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand
Alba Juárez‐Bourke Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Department The James Hutton Institute Aberdeen Scotland
Caroline Le Calvez Université d’Orléans EA 1210 CEDETE Orléans Cedex 2 France
Sophie Le Floch UR ETBX INRAE Centre de Nouvelle Aquitaine Bordeaux Cestas Cedex France
Yves‐François Le Lay Université de Lyon CNRS ENS de Lyon Environnement Ville Société Lyon France
Laurent Lespez Université Paris Est Créteil UMR 8591 CNRS Laboratoire de Géographie physique Meudon France
Jamie Linton Geolab UMR 6042 CNRS Université de Limoges Limoges France
Belinda Lip WWF‐Malaysia Sarawak Office Kuching Sarawak Malaysia
John B. Loomis Colorado State University Fort Collins CO USA
McKenzie Augustine Martin WWF‐Malaysia Sarawak Office Kuching Sarawak Malaysia
Sylvie Morardet Université de Montpellier AgroParisTech, BRGM, CIRAD INRAE, Institut Agro, IRD UMR G‐EAU Montpellier France
Bertrand Morandi Université de Lyon CNRS ENS de Lyon Environnement Ville Société Lyon France
Stefanie Müller Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Unit Economics and Social Sciences Birmensdorf Switzerland
Hervé Piégay Université de Lyon CNRS ENS de Lyon Environnement Ville Société Lyon France
Franziska E. Ruef USYS TdLab ETH, Zürich Switzerland
Anne Salmond Te Wānanga o Waipapa University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand
Beth Styler‐Barry The Nature Conservancy – New Jersey Field Office Chester NJ USA
Marc Tadaki Cawthron Institute Nelson New Zealand
Pere Vall‐Casas Universitat Internacional de Catalunya School of Architecture Barcelona Spain
Riyan van den Born Institute for Science in Society Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen The Netherlands
Bernadette van Heel Institute for Science in Society Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen The Netherlands
Helena Zemp Haute École d’Ingénierie – FHNW Windisch Aargau Suisse
1 What are the Political, Social, and Economic Issues in River Restoration? Genealogy and Current Research Issues
Marylise Cottet, Bertrand Morandi, and Hervé Piégay
Université de Lyon, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Environnement Ville Société, Lyon, France
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 River restoration at the heart of river management policies
Faced with the ever‐increasing impact of human activities on the environment, the biologist E.O. Wilson (1992) announced, probably with much hope, the opening of an era of ecological restoration in the 21st century. Although its scope and consequences may be a matter of debate (Choi 2007; Sudding 2011), the realization of this hope seems to be currently confirmed. In response to the observed degradation of ecosystems (Palmer et al. 2004; Steffen et al. 2007; Cardinale et al. 2012), ecological restoration measures have become a structuring element of environmental management policies in both developed and developing countries (Aronson et al. 2006; Wortley et al. 2013). In the field of river management, they have been actively deployed since the 1970s (Gore 1985; Boon et al. 1992) because of particularly significant degradation resulting from the use of water and hydraulic installations, both old and increasingly numerous (e.g. Dudgeon et al. 2005; Vörösmarty et al. 2010; Grizzetti et al. 2017). Faced with significant water pollution and profound physical modifications of