Biography
Sylvie Morardet is a researcher in economics, specialising in economic evaluation applied to the management of water and hydrosystems. Her research focuses on the perceptions and behaviour of water and hydrosystem users and on methods for the economic evaluation of hydrosystem services. She is also interested in participatory approaches and modelling to support dialogue between stakeholders and decision-making on natural resource management, particularly in irrigated areas.
Her areas of expertise include the analysis of agricultural production systems, micro-economic modelling of farms (mathematical programming), the evaluation of farm sustainability, the economic analysis of hydro-agricultural projects and public water management policies, and the design and use of participatory mechanisms for decision support.
For the past 30 years, she has been involved in the development of economic evaluation and participatory engineering methods through several research and expertise projects in France (notably in the Rhône-Méditerranée and Corsica, Adour-Garonne and Loire-Bretagne basins), and abroad (Tunisia, South Africa). She spent most of her career at Cemagref, which became Irstea and then integrated into INRAE. She was seconded to the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in South Africa from 2003 to 2007 and was hosted at the Tunisian Agronomic Institute from 2018 to 2020.
Tools used
Social practices and perceptions , Experimental Economics , Stated Preferences , Hybrid methods
Publications
- Analysing practices, social representations and behaviours of socio-hydro systems' actors, 2022
- Large-scale participation in policy design: citizen proposals for rural development in Tunisia, 2022
- Cycling along a River: New access, new values?, 2020
- Fourniture d'information et consentement à payer l'eau d'irrigation dans les Groupements de Développement Agricole tunisiens : Une étude par l'économie expérimentale, 2018
- Comment rendre compte de la multiplicité des valeurs des services écosystémiques des hydrosystèmes? Volume 2: Application à l'amont du bassin-versant des Gardons, 2017
- Comment rendre compte de la multiplicité des valeurs des services écosystémiques des hydrosystèmes? Volume 1: Cadre conceptuel: services écosystémiques, valeurs et méthodes d'évaluation, 2017
- Conception d’un paiement pour services environnementaux en pâturages collectifs. Une expérimentation des choix, 2016