Cécile Hérivaux

Environmental Economist

Biography :

Cécile is a sustainability economics researcher at BRGM. Her initial training was as an agronomic engineer at AgroParisTech, specializing in economic and social sciences (master’s degree in agricultural development economics). Over time, she enhanced her education with a master’s degree in environmental and natural resource economics, followed by a PhD in sustainability economics. She has 20 years of experience contributing to and coordinating the economic aspects of applied research projects at local, national, and European levels.

Her research focuses primarily on addressing issues related to groundwater protection, in connection with ecosystems and biodiversity. She uses a variety of economic approaches: conceptual frameworks that explore the links between human societies, ecosystems, and aquifers through the lens of ecosystem services; integrated geo-prospective approaches to consider long-term developments; coupling hydrogeological models with economic methods to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses; and stated preference methods to assess the benefits of protection measures. She has developed and applied these approaches with three main objectives: (i) adapting them to the specific characteristics of groundwater and aquifers, (ii) ensuring a strong field-based connection to reflect the unique features of different territories, and (iii) embedding them within an ethical perspective of strong sustainability.

Currently, her research focuses on exploring the relevance of Nature-Based Solutions in aquifer recharge zones for sustainable groundwater management, understanding the environmental inequalities that may arise from groundwater protection, and examining the pluralism of values associated with nature and ecosystems.

Tools used :

Social practices and perceptions Stated Preferences Hybrid methods

Published mainly with :

Olivier Barreteau Bruno Bonté Yvan Caballero Emmanuel Dubois Stefano Farolfi Damien Jourdain Philippe Le Coënt Julien Malard Marielle Montginoul Sylvie Morardet Noémie Neverre

contact : c.herivaux@brgm.fr

HAL numerical identifier : 177212

Cécile Hérivaux

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12 PRECOS Productions

Do urban environmental inequalities influence demand for nature based solutions? (2024)

How to account for spatial trade-offs in planning for urban climate adaptation? Optimizing green and grey infrastructures (2024)

Environmental inequalities and heterogeneity in preferences for nature-based solutions (2023)

Analysing practices, social representations and behaviours of socio-hydro systems' actors (2022)

Restoring groundwater quality at the drinking water catchment scale: A multidisciplinary and participatory approach (2022)

Restoring groundwater quality at the drinking water catchment scale: A multidisciplinary and participatory approach (2022)

Combining narrative scenarios, local knowledge and land-use change modelling for integrating soil erosion in a global perspective (2021)

Introducing Nature into Cities or Preserving Existing Peri-Urban Ecosystems? Analysis of Preferences in a Rapidly Urbanizing Catchment (2021)

Distinct and combined impacts of climate and land use scenarios on water availability and sediment loads for a water supply reservoir in northern Morocco (2020)

Exploring the Potential of Groundwater Markets in Agriculture: Results of a Participatory Evaluation in Five French Case Studies (2020)