Descripción del proyecto
Planteamientos innovadores para diseñar conjuntamente una restauración fluvial sólida y justa
La restauración de los ríos es una prioridad política clave, pero su aplicación se enfrenta a la oposición. Los distintos agentes tienen ideas divergentes sobre si los ríos deben restaurarse y cómo. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto REvive, financiado por las acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, pretende investigar la restauración de los ríos como un proceso con una fuerte carga política y conformado por múltiples ontologías y epistemologías. El equipo del proyecto, centrado en tres ríos españoles, pretende generar nuevas perspectivas interdisciplinares sobre las complejidades sociopolíticas de la restauración fluvial. Mediante un riguroso análisis académico y un compromiso constructivo con las partes interesadas locales, REvive facilitará laboratorios de diseño de restauración, ideando metodologías para diseñar en colaboración entornos fluviales equitativos y resilientes. Esta ambiciosa iniciativa hará hincapié en la importancia de la «política del diseño» y la «justicia del diseño» tanto para entidades humanas como no humanas.
Objetivo
Nature and river restoration are high on the political agendas; the EU Biodiversity Strategy and Nature Restoration Law stipulate ambitious goals. However, in practice, river restoration projects – including barrier removal, implementation of ecological baseflows, and others – are contested. Different human and nonhuman actors have diverging ideas about what the future of rivers should look like. Underlying are multiple ontologies about what rivers are, can and should be; and epistemologies that define how rivers can be known. Through innovatively analysing river restoration as a political and contentious encounter of multiple ontologies and epistemologies, this project goes beyond the state-of-the art. Based on the study of restoration initiatives in three rivers in Spain, the project will generate new interdisciplinary knowledge about the complexities of river restoration. Rigorous and critical academic analysis will be combined with the exploration of pathways for constructive engagement: with local actors, the project will organize restoration design labs to develop methodologies for co-designing just and robust river conviviality. The project goes beyond mainstream formats of multi-stakeholder platforms through a focus on the ‘politics of design’ and ‘design justice’ that includes humans and nonhumans alike. This is a highly ambitious undertaking, which is made feasible through a careful methodological and conceptual set-up. The placement at the University of Girona and the secondment at the University of Twente will allow the researcher to develop a wide range of knowledges and professional skills; while she will use the project results and her expertise to stimulate transdisciplinary and critical debate in academia and practice. The non-academic placement with the Catalan Water Agency allows to make the generated scientific knowledge actionable and vice versa, to let action inform continuous knowledge production about just river restoration.
Ámbito científico
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
17004 Girona
España