Bourblanc, Magalie

 

     

Current Position

 

• Senior Research Fellow, CIRAD (Department Environment and Societies), UMR G-EAU (Joint Research Unit "Water Management, Actors and Uses"), University of Montpellier (MUSE), France

• Extraordinary lecturer, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2020-2023

 

• seconded to GovInn-Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, University of Pretoria (2013-2019) and CEEPA-Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa, University of Pretoria (2010-2019)

 

Education Background  

Magalie is trained in Political Science with a MSocSci from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (DEA sociologie politique, 2001) and a PhD from both SciencesPo Paris, France (PhD Political Science, 2007) and the Radboud Universiteit-Nijmegen, The Netherlands (PhD Management Science, 2007). Her doctoral thesis adopted a public policy instrumentation approach to study public programmes dealing with non-point source pollution coming from agriculture: "Politiques de reconquête de la qualité de l’eau face aux pollutions agricoles : changement et stabilité dans les arrangements institutionnels en Côtes-d’Armor et dans le Noord-Brabant" (Silver Medal Award, Académie d'Agriculture de France, 2009; qualifiée au CNU, section 04 et section 19). In the past, she has been Visiting Researcher in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005-2006) and Visiting Scholar in Elinor Ostrom's seminar on Political theory and Policy Analysis, University of Indiana-Bloomington (Fall semester 2006). Before joining CIRAD in 2009, Magalie completed a Post-Doc at the French Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Based at the Centre Alexandre Koyré-Paris, she worked on the socio-technical construction of indicators to assess the ecological status of water bodies within the European Water Framework Directive.   

Scientific Interests 

 

• Public Policy Analysis of Water and Land issues in Southern Africa and Europe
• Water Politics and Governance
• Sociology of the State and Public Administration
• Social Studies of Science and Expertise
• Political Ecology
• Science politique environnementale
• Santé-Environnement

Research Projects

 

• ANR GreenSeas (Adaptations des systèmes socio-écologiques côtiers vulnérables à l'eutrophisation), Zone Atelier Brest-Iroise, Coord. V.Viaux, A. Levain, J.-P. Le Bourhis, P.Durand, R.Mongruel, 2023-2026
• PECAPLO (Prioriser l'enjeu climatique dans l'action publique locale: une comparaison inter-régionale de l'appropriation des PCAET), projet ADEME (coord. Andy Smith & Sylvain Barone), 2022-2024.

• Coordinatrice, GOETHE "Gouverner l'enrichissement des eaux dans les lagunes des petits bassins côtiers méditerranéens: le cas de l'étang de Thau, de l'Or et Palavasiens ", Montpellier Université d'Excellence (MUSE funding), 2020-2022.

• TYPOCLIM (Typology and assessment of policy instruments to promote agricultural adaptation to climate change : South Africa, Senegal, France, Spain, California, Colombia), Montpellier Université d'Excellence (MUSE funding), 2018-2022.

• Principal Investigator, AFGROLAND research project (“African Food, Agriculture, Land and Natural Resource Dynamics, in the context of global agro-food-energy system changes”), Belmont Forum Call for Research Project, FSLUC –Food Security and Land Use Change 2014-, ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche), 2014-2018

• Inclusive Development Models, South African Treasury/Flemish International Cooperation Agency (FICA), 2013-2015

• European Union 7^th Research Framework Program: Afromaison: Africa at Meso-Scale- adaptive and integrated tools and strategies of natural resources management (South Africa; Mali; Uganda; Tunisia; Ethiopia), 2010-2014

• Challenge Programme Water and Food- Limpopo: Water Governance in the Limpopo Basin (South Africa; Mozambique; Zimbabwe; Botswana), 2010-2014

• Water Research Commission-World Bank project: Water Governance Decentralization in Africa: a framework for reform process and performance analysis (South Africa; Zimbabwe; Mozambique), 2010-2013

 

PhD Supervision (past & present)

 

• Juliette Daquin, "Production et mise en circulation des savoirs sur l'eutrophisation en Bretagne. Science réglementaire, contre-expertise et médias", Oct. 2023- présent (en co-direction avec Jean-Pierre Le Bourhis), Université de Bretagne. 

• Mélanie Pommerieux,  « Les effets de dispositifs participatifs sur l’action publique. Le cas des Environmental Management Framework et des Coastal Management Plans en Afrique du Sud», Dec. 2013-Aug 2017, Université de Montpellier, (avec E. Fouilleux)

 

Expertise

• Membre du Conseil Scientifique du Comité de Bassin Seine-Normandie (2023-2028): https://www.eau-seine-normandie.fr/le-comite-de-bassin/le-conseil-scientifique
• Membre du Comité Scientifique et Technique GENEM (Gestion des éléments nutritifs et des émissions vers les milieux), Ministère de l'Agriculture - Ministère de la Transition Ecologique - Ministère de la Transition Energétique (2023-2027)

 

Professional Membership and Responsibilities

International Political Science Association (IPSA, RC 11 Science and Politics); Association Française de Science Politique (AFSP); European Sociological Association (ESA, RN 12 Environment and Society); Member of POLLEN (Political Ecology Network);

ex co-leader (with Ward Anseeuw) of the DP PP&G (Dispositif de Recherche et d'enseignement en partenariat -Public Policy & Governance in Southern Africa), 2010-2015; member of CAP (Controversy and Public Policy) and OGEA (Outils et Gouvernance de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement) teams within UMR G-EAU 

Contact and Postal Address 

CIRAD, TA C90/15, 73 JF Breton, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5, FRANCE

Phone :+ 33 (0)4 67 04 63 36

Email : magalie.bourblanc[at]cirad.fr