Current position :
January 2022-December 2023 : Postdoctoral researcher on two missions. The first mission is assigned to the research project "Climat-Métro" (Institute of Environmental Geosciences / University of Grenoble-Alpes / CNRS) on adaptation to climate change in Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole concerning water risks. The second mission is assigned to the Post AgreenSkills Fund (PAF) research project - "Nature Based Solutions - From Theory to Practice" (INRAE, CNAM, ENGEES, UC Berkeley). The ambition of the project is to understand how the concept of Nature Based Solutions is mobilized by managers and public policies, and how local residents perceive this concept on the ground, by comparing several French and American sites. My work focuses more specifically on the case of the French Camargue.
October 2020-November 2021: Postdoctoral researcher in Political Science, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Project "FluidGov : Towards 'fluids' governance: hydrosocial analysis of flood paradigms and management practices in the Ganges and Rhone Basins (India, France and Switzerland)". Research center : UMR GESTE, ENGEES-INRAE, Strasbourg, France
April 2018-August 2020 : Postdoctoral researcher in Political Science, Institute for Geosciences and Environmental research, associate researcher PACTE, Project "Climat Metro" on adaptation to climate change in Grenoble-Alpes-Metropole (extreme events and floods), Research center : Institute for Geosciences and Environmental research, Grenoble-Alpes University
Since 2018 : Qualification for a position as an assistant professor in urban planning in a French University, by the French Ministry of Research and Education
November 2017 : PhD in Urban Planning (PACTE, Grenoble-Alpes University). The territorialized resistances to the reforms of modernization of the water services. The case of the urban area of Grenoble. 1st Thesis award "Georges Dupuis" for local community (GRALE)
From 2010 to 2017 : Support mission for the Waterdrinking Community of the Grenoble urban region (studies, animation of working groups, organization of scientific events, technical support to local authorities) / http://c-eau-region-grenoble.org
CV :
Academic positions
2022-2023 : Half-time Postdoc fellow in Geography, Institute for Geosciences and Environmental research, Project "Climat Metro" on adaptation to climate change in Grenoble-Alpes-Metropole (extreme events and floods). Half-time Postdoc fellow in Political Science, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Project Post AgreenSkills Fund (PAF) - "Nature Based Solutions - From Theory to Practice".
2020-2021 : Postdoc fellow in Political Science, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Project "FluidGov : Towards 'fluids' governance: hydrosocial analysis of flood paradigms and management practices in the Ganges and Rhone Basins (India, France and Switzerland)". Research center : UMR GESTE, ENGEES-INRAE, Strasbourg, France
2018-2020 : Postdoc fellow in Geography, Institute for Geosciences and Environmental research, associate researcher PACTE, Project "Climat Metro" on adaptation to climate change in Grenoble-Alpes-Metropole (extreme events and floods)
2011-2017 : PhD fellow in Urban Planning, PACTE, Grenoble-Alpes University.
Education & qualifications
2022 : Teaching qualifications in Urban Planning (renewal)
2018 : Teaching qualifications in Urban Planning
2017 : PhD in Urban Planning (Grenoble-Alpes University)
Supervisors: Dr. Bernard Pecqueur
Comittee: Pr. Hellier (University Rennes 2), Pr. Pflieger (University Geneva), Pr. Barraqué (AgroParisTech-ENGREF), Dr. Ghiotti (CNRS), Dr. Bouleau (IRSTEA).
2009-2010 : M.Sc. in Legal Anthropology (University Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne)
2007-2008 : M.Sc. in Public policy (Sciences Po Rennes)
2003-2006 : Bachelors Degree in Political Science (University Rennes 1)
2003-2006 : Bachelors Degree in Law (University Rennes 1)
3. Research projects
On-going projects
Contributor to French-USA Project "PAF" Consortium INRAE, CNAM, ENGEES, UC Berkeley
Contributor to French-Swiss-Indian Project "FluidGov" Consortium IGD-INRAE-Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur
Contributor to French research project "Climat Metro" Consortium UGA/CREG/PACTE/Grenoble-Alpes-Metropole. 2017-2021
Past projects
Contibutor to French and Italian project "FIELD" - Case of Grenoble area, Turin School of Local Regulation. 2015-2016.
4. Administrative activities
2018- : Member of the organization of the seminar Ametihst
Polical Ecology
Environmental policies
Climate change adaptation
Modernization of water policies
Water policy instruments
Neoliberalism
Public administration
Territorial reforms and metropolization
Regulation
Planning
Governance and territorial construction
Riskscapes
Local resistances to public policies
Local public services
Water management
Performance of water utilities
Development sustainability
Water history (grand narrative and local history of Grenoble area)
Sociology of Local Systems of Public Action
Power politics
Book
Brochet A., 2023, Eaux, pouvoirs et territoires. Une histoire de l'alimentation en eau dans l'agglomération grenobloise, Grenoble : Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, coll. La Pierre et l'écrit https://www.pug.fr/produit/2025/9782706147098/eaux-pouvoirs-et-territoires
Pecqueur B., Brochet A., 2013, Le service public d’eau potable et la fabrique des territoires, Actes du colloque international de Grenoble des 14 et 15 novembre 2012, Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. La librairie des humanités https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/livre-le_service_public_d_eau_potable_et_la_fabrique_des_territoires_antoine_brochet_bernard_pecqueur-9782343021546-41819.html
Articles
Arik A., Chionne D., Renou Y., Brochet A. et al., 2023, "The limits of scalability: Uncovering friction between levels of flood risk governance in the French Alps", International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.104044
Renou Y., Brochet A., 2023, "Around ownership? The “commoning” of Grenoble’s water in the face of territorial administrative rationalization", Revue française de socio-économie, vol. 30, p.91-113. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfse.030.0091
Brochet A., Guerrin J. 2022, "The hazards of policy implementation: the 'Plan Rhône' in the face of flooding riskscapes in the downstream area of the Rhone", Geocarrefour, 96/1. http://journals.openedition.org/geocarrefour/19203
Creutin J-D., Blanchet J., Reverdy A., Brochet A., Lutoff C., Robert Y., 2022, "Reported Occurence of Multiscale Flooding in an Alpine Conurbation over the Long Run (1850-2019), Water, 14(4), 548. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14040548
Brochet A., Wittner C., 2021, "Evaluating the impact on their sustainability of a re-scaling of water services: the ABAFAD method", Vertigo: la revue électronique en sciences de l'environnement", vol. 21, n°2. http://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/32267
Brochet A., Renou Y., 2021, "Securing flood risk as a "common-community": institutional colonization and pratical resistance in the Grenoble plain", Flux, n°124-125 https://doi.org/10.3917/flux1.124.0041
Bolognesi T., Brochet A., Renou Y., 2021, "Assessing socio-technical resistances to public policy instruments: insights from water performance indicators in the Grenoble area (France)", Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420986561
Brochet A., 2020, "The future sustainability of water utilities in France: proposal for an analytical method applied to the case of the Grenoble urban area", Techniques, Sciences, Méthodes, 7-8, p.55-76. https://astee-tsm.fr/Umbraco/Surface/Articles/GetArticlePdfFile?articleId=6129
Renou Y., Brochet A., Creutin J-D., 2020, "Understanding the production and regulation of environmental conflicts to characterize a risk-securing trajectory. The case of the Grenoble plain (from 1219 to 1778)", Revue de la régulation, 28. http://journals.openedition.org/regulation/18191
Brochet A., 2019, "A water union of minicipalities against a Metropole's capital. The case of the water union of municipalities of the Grenoble urban area", Revue française d'administration publique", n°179, 4, p.1005-1025. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfap.172.0133
Brochet A., Bolognesi T., Renou Y., 2016, « Resource social construction and territorial resistances against performance indicators for water services. The case of the Grenoble area », Développement Durable et Territoires, volume 7, Numéro 3, Publié en ligne en décembre 2016. DOI : 10.4000/developpementdurable.11375 URL: http://developpementdurable.revues.org/11375
Brochet A., 2015, « Petite histoire grenobloise du grand réseau, des origines de la cité à l’aube du XXe siècle », Urbanités, Numéro 6 : La ville et les tuyaux. Publié en ligne le 27 novembre 2015. URL : http://www.revue-urbanites.fr/6-petite-histoire-grenobloise-du-grand-reseau-des-origines-de-la-cite-a-laube-du-xxe-siecle/
Brochet A., 2015, « La création de Sociétés Publiques Locales pour gérer les services d’eau des agglomérations françaises : une nouvelle forme d’organisation innovante ? », La revue innovatiO, Numéro 3 : Les doctorales 2013 – 2015 de l’innovation. Publié en ligne le 18 septembre 2015 URL : http://innovacs-innovatio.upmf-grenoble.fr/index.php?id=281
Brochet A., Benech C., 2014, « The rescaling and sustainability of water utilities. The results of a intervention-research undertaken in the area of Grenoble », TSM, Numéro 5, pp.77-90. http://seine.oieau.fr/oieau.fr/sites/seine.oieau.fr.oieau.fr.eaudoc/files/33041.pdf
Book chapters
Brochet A., 2023, "Restituer la trajectoire historique de l'alimentation en eau des Grenoblois: une valse à trois-temps avec l'industrie", Les études du CIRIEC France. Collection Economie collective et territoires. Thème 3 : Eau & Energie : hautes tensions territoriales. https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04127986/document
Brochet A., 2019, "Resistance to public policy instruments in the water sector", Droit et Gestion des Collectivités Territoriales, Paris, Le Moniteur, p. 645-659
Brochet A., 2018, "When the drinking water user becomes a consumer: between the modernization of the relationship with users and local resistances", Gouvernance de l'eau : un mouvement de réforme perpétuelle ?, Paris, L'Harmattan, coll. Sociologies et Environnement, p.171-192
Pecqueur B., Brochet A., 2013, Le service public d’eau potable et la fabrique des territoires, Actes du colloque international de Grenoble des 14 et 15 novembre 2012, Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. La librairie des humanités, 464 p.
Teaching
About 210 hours of teaching experience in University
About 200 hours of teaching to professionals
Lecture in Water Management, Grenoble-Alpes University
Lecture in Water politics, Grenoble-Alpes University
Flood risk management, Grenoble-Alpes University
Master thesis supervisions
2016, Audrey Talssi, Master 2 GODI EAD, Grenoble-Alpes University
Student tutoring
Tutoring of two students of the L3 "Economy, sustainable management of water and territories" of the University Grenoble-Alpes
Experience of 7 years in local community (water management)
Blog administrator S-Eau-ciétés :
https://seaucietes.hypotheses.org
Guest speaker
Guest speaker, political ecology cycle Erosions 3 Réalités aquatiques, "L'histoire de l'alimentation en eau de la plaine de Grenoble: des liens étroits à l'industrie", October 05, 2023, Maison du Tourisme Grenoble.
Round table "Small towns in troubled waters", 25 Mai 2023, Sciences Po Grenoble.
Climate Change and Flooding Conference organized as part of Grenoble Green Capital, July 7, 2022
CIRIEC network study day : "Water and energy in the Grenoble area: issues and perspectives", Water management in the metropolitan area: from past to present, June 27, 2022.
Study day: "Commons and territorialized public action: what articulations?", 13 and 14 April 2022, Sciences Po Grenoble.
Media
Interview Journal Le 1 Hebdo, September 27, 2023, "Une Métropole face au défi de l'eau", https://le1hebdo.fr/journal/c-est-quoi-l-urgence/464/1/article/une-mtropole-face-au-dfi-de-l-eau-6167.html
Interview Journal Les Echos, 10 juillet 2023, "A Grenoble, bataille de l'eau autour de son utilisation par l'industrie", https://www.lesechos.fr/thema/articles/a-grenoble-bataille-de-leau-autour-de-son-utilisation-par-lindustrie-1960796
Interview France Culture, 17 mai 2023, Le Reportage de la rédaction, "Comment la France tente de lutter contre la crise des semi-conducteurs ?", https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-reportage-de-la-redaction/le-reportage-de-la-redaction-emission-du-samedi-17-juin-2023-1279902
Interview in Reporterre, January 12, 2023, "En Isère l'industrie électronique boit toute l'eau", https://reporterre.net/En-Isere-l-industrie-electronique-boit-toute-l-eau
Interview given to the Ouishare network (France), December 2021
Presentation on the commons and water at a seminar of the 27th region (France), May 2021
Article published in the e-book 2020, Perspectives on research in local public action
Video abstract : PhD Thesis, december 2018
Interview in lettre d'information de l'ADGCF n°41, octobre 2018, URL : https://www.adgcf.fr/upload/newsletter/0004/ADGCF-1538396116.htm
Interview in Horizons Publics, "Jeunes chercheurs : un autre regard sur les enjeux des territoires", été 2018, URL : https://www.horizonspublics.fr/revue/jeunes-chercheurs-un-autre-regard-sur-les-enjeux-des-territoires
Interview, in Le Figaro (11-07-2014), « Pourquoi la contamination bactérienne de l’eau est-elle plus fréquente en zone montagneuse ?», URL : http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2014/07/11/01016-20140711ARTFIG00218-pourquoi-la-contamination-bacterienne-de-l-eau-est-plus-frequente-en-zone-montagneuse.php
Reports for decision-makers
C-Eau, 2017, « Comment gérer les eaux pluviales sur mon territoire ? », URL : http://c-eau-region-grenoble.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/JOURNAL.PAGE_.SIMPLE.13.01.18.pdf
CEP, 2015, « Les servitudes de canalisation en interaction avec les services publics d’eau potable », 137 p. URL : http://c-eau-region-grenoble.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/DossierServitudesCEAU_VDEF_29Janvier2016_12H.pdf
CEP, 2014, « Exercice théorique prospectif sur la durabilité actuelle et future des services d’eau potable. La situation du bassin grenoblois à l’horizon 2040 », 75 p. URL : http://c-eau-region-grenoble.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Exercice-the%CC%81orique-prospectif-durabilite.pdf
CEP, 2014, « Rapport d’enquête. Photographie des services d’eau potable du bassin grenoblois », 212 p., URL : http://c-eau-region-grenoble.org/wp-content/uploadsFTP/rapport_photographiedesservices_bassereso_cep.pdf
CEP, 2014, « Les droits d’eau à titre gratuit en interaction avec les activités des services publics d’eau potable. Document de repérage. L’exemple des droits sur les sources et sur les eaux souterraines dans le cadre des réseaux publics et des réseaux privés maillés au réseau public », 86 p.
CEP, 2013, « Droits et obligations du service public de l’eau potable dans ses relations aux usagers. Un document d’appui aux autorités organisatrices pour la rédaction et/ou la mise à jour des règlements de service d’eau potable », 168 p. URL : http://c-eau-region-grenoble.org/wp-content/uploadsFTP/guide%20reglement%20de%20service.pdf
Email : antoine.brochet@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Address : Antoine Brochet, Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement (IGE), UGA - IGE, CS 40700 , 38 058 Grenoble Cedex 9, FRANCE