Les Rendez-vous de l’Eco “Water resources: a global challenge, a challenge of the century?”

As part of the "Rendez-vous de l'Éco" series, the Faculty of Economics, in partnership with its student associations, is organizing a conference on the theme: Water resources: a global issue, an issue of the century?

Today, more than ever, water is a universal and multifaceted issue. And its importance will only grow in the years and decades to come, particularly as a result of climate change, population growth, and inevitable urbanization, potentially generating risks, disasters, economic and/or social difficulties, and tensions or conflicts across the globe. How, then, can we integrate and manage the fact that the existing responses and solutions to these multiple crises must be implemented locally and require us to reconsider certain elements and foundations of the functioning of our human societies everywhere?

Speaker:

• Eric SERVAT: Director of the UNESCO International Center on Water – ICIREWARD Montpellier (International Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Water Systems Dynamics), Director of Research at IRD, Associate Professor at the University of Montpellier, He was Director of the Observatory of Universe Sciences (OSU) in Montpellier (2015 to 2024). Eric Servat is a hydrologist by training. He has taken a keen interest in the relationship between global change and water resources, first in Africa and then in the Mediterranean region. He has coordinated and directed numerous international programs, notably in partnership with UNESCO's Intergovernmental Hydrological Program and its flagship program "FRIEND-Water," which brings together more than 160 countries across all continents. He was recently appointed (July 2024) President of the French National Committee of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Hydrological Program.