Alexandra ANGELIAUME-DESCAMPS

I teach in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at UT2J, as well as at IPEAT (Multidisciplinary Institute for American Studies), which I joined in 2004.
My teaching focuses largely on environmental issues, from undergraduate to master's level, covering basic knowledge to environmental management tools (GEO101, GEO205, GEO501, GEO601, GEP 704, GEP 903).
They also focus on imparting technical skills specific to geographers through courses in cartography and image processing (GEO102, GEO302, GEO402).
Finally, in close connection with my research activities, I have developed courses related to Latin America (GEP 704, GEP 903, IPEAT EA0R902V).

Production of outstanding teaching resources

Resource: "Dynamics and challenges of biodiversity and agrodiversity"

This is a collection of online courses, video resources and bibliographical references on wetland management, based on case studies in Aubrac and Ségala (Aveyron), Armagnac (Gers) and the Toulouse region (Haute-Garonne). It can be viewed at: https://uoh.fr/front/noticefr/?uuid=b9c4ab7b-0460-4900-9b01-ef30986100dd

Resource: "The Mapimí Biosphere Reserve: a case study of one of the oldest biosphere reserves (Mexico 1977–2016)"

This resource focuses on protected areas managed under Biosphere Reserve status, based on a case study of the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve in Mexico and insights from various other reserves. It is available at http://Mapimí-uved.univ-tlse2.fr/.

Thesis supervision

• Benedicte Veyrac : Impacts environnementaux des choix des agriculteurs suite aux épisodes de sècheresse 2007-2013. [Environmental impacts of farmers' choices following the droughts of 2007-2013.] Co-chair Committee and jury
• Simon Prime : Ressources naturelles, pratiques agricoles et soutenabilité dans les hautes terres tropicales latino-américaines (insertion dans programmes ECOS-Nord Mexique et Colombie) [Natural resources, agricultural practices, and sustainability in the tropical highlands of Latin America (inclusion in ECOS-North Mexico and Colombia programs)] Joint supervision in preparation with the Colegio de Postgraduado de Puebla (Mexico) 2010-abandon. Co-chair Committee
• David Leroy : Vulnérabilités liées à l'eau dans les páramos dans un contexte d'intensification des activités agro-pastorales [Water-related vulnerabilities in páramos in a context of intensified agricultural and pastoral activities] 2012-2017. Co-chair Committee and jury
• Marie Wurtz : Vulnérabilités associées aux usages de l'eau : lien entre conceptions et innovations techniques et perceptions et stratégies rurales [Vulnerabilities associated with water use: link between technical designs and innovations and rural perceptions and strategies] 2014-2019. Co-chair UT2J/CIMAV Committee and jury
• Chloé Delomel : Réallocation « territoriale » de la ressource par la REUSE en Occitanie : évaluation des impacts, bénéfices, perspectives de déploiement Cotutelle Ecole des Mines [ Territorial reallocation of resources by REUSE in Occitanie: assessment of impacts, benefits, and prospects for deployment Joint supervision by École des Mines] Ales/ UT2J Comité

Historically, since joining the GEODE laboratory in 1999, my work has focused on agricultural land management in southwestern France, soil erosion, irrigation water management, and wetland use, incorporating historical approaches and landscape analyses, as well as analyzing locally implemented agri-environmental policies (MAE, CAP).

Subsequently, I broadened this area of research to include the study of environmental changes and the management of protected areas or areas of ecological interest (NATURA 2000, ENS), particularly wetlands through their restoration and new uses (Gers, Aveyron, Pyrénées Atlantiques) (support for knowledge, management, and enhancement of ponds and wetlands in southwestern France; monitoring of management and restoration practices for ponds and wetlands in southwestern France).

Since 2003, my areas of study have expanded to include Latin America. My involvement in these areas takes the form of research topics on water management, rural areas, resource management in protected areas (national parks, biosphere reserves), management policies for urban water supply areas, payments for ecosystem services, and ecotourism (study of changes in tropical mountains and environmental consequences; analysis of resource management in protected areas, ecosystem services and their payment, conflict and participation processes).

More recently, my work has focused on wetlands through new approaches (remote sensing of the environment, SFN-based solutions, SES ecosystem services, OPSE socio-ecological observatories) and on water management through the development of reuse, water reuse (National Water Plan 2023) (deployment and perception of reuse).

Ongoing research project
 

• ECOS NORD Project 2023-2027 Multidisciplinary approach to water resource management in northern Mexico Use of multispectral satellite and drone imagery and social surveys to analyze the functionality and quality of wetlands (lagoons, dams, ponds) and identifying levers for action with a view to assisting water resource management in a context of global change and qualitative and quantitative alteration, Project leader Martin Paegelow
   
• UT2J Labex SMS Project 2023-25 Vulnerabilities in Latin America: Modeling Based on Socio-spatial and Anthropo-economic Observations in Search of Local Dynamics, Hazards, and Resilience (VAMOS-A-QUEDAR), Project leaders Mehdi Saquali, Alexandra Angéliaume Descamps
   
• Key Challenge Occitanie Region Water Occitanie 2023-2026 Structuring Project TERR’REUSE “Territorial” reallocation of resources through REUSE: assessment of benefits and impacts on large and small water cycles and their externalities Project leaders: Alexandra Angéliaume Descamps – GEODE and Patrick LACHASSAGNE – HSM (https://woc.edu.umontpellier.fr/organisation-des-projets-defi-cle-water-occitanie/projets-structurants-defi-cle-water-occitanie/terrreuse/)

Communications and seminars

• Alexandra Angéliaume-Descamps, Mehdi Saqalli, Ma. Teresa Alarcón Herrera, Víctor Manuel Reyes Gómez,2022, VAMOS A QUEDAR Vulnérabilités, Aléas Au Mexique : Obstacles et Stratégies en QUêtes D'Approches de Résiliences, Vulnerabilidades, Amenazas en México : Obstáculos y estrategias en los enfoques para la resiliencia Estudio de casos en Chihuahua-Durango, Communication CEISAL 2022, 06.04 Paradigmas, alternativas, contrastes y realidades en territorios hidrosociales en el medio rural, Lunes 13 de junio 2022, Helsinki.
• Alexandra Angéliaume-Descamps, 2022, Retos SOCIO-ambientales de la gestión y restauración de humedales, perspectivas sobre los instrumentos de gestión y APOYO A LA TOMA de decisiones de actores en Francia, Seminario Binacional “Construyendo puentes de investigación participativa entre Francia-México” Cuauhtémoc-Chihuahua, México, 21-22 junio 2022
• Alexandra Angéliaume-Descamps, 2022, Habiter une Réserve de Biosphère : Mythes et réalités autour du programme Man And Biosphère de l’UNESCO dans la Réserve de Biosphère de Mapimí (1977-2022 - Mexique), Study days IPEAT, September 17, 2022, Toulouse.
• Alexandra Angéliaume-Descamps, 2022, Las contribuciones de las imágenes de alta resolución adquiridas por drones para ayudar en la gestión, el conocimiento y la restauración de humedales en el suroeste, Seminario Binacional “Construyendo puentes de investigación participativa entre Francia-México” Cuauhtémoc-Chihuahua, México, 21-22 junio 2022
• Alexandra Angéliaume-Descamps, 2022, Proyecto de Cooperacion decentralizada France -Mexique, Seminario Binacional “Construyendo puentes de investigación participativa entre Francia-México” Cuauhtémoc-Chihuahua, México, 21-22 junio 2022
• Alexandra Angéliaume-Descamps, 2022, Study day IN SITU, January 2023
• Alexandra Angeliaume Descamps, 2022, Gestion des sécheresses : entre politiques publiques et initiatives locales, coordination, Laurence Charlier Zeineddine Cycle Séminaire pluridisciplinaires IdA-ENS Date 14 juin 2024

Various functions

• Member of the Biogeography Commission
• Member of the Continental Hydrosystems Commission
• Member of the Wetlands History Group
• Member of the Editorial Board of the ORDA Journal
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Caravelle Journal
• Member of the Americas Chair Commission
• Member of the IPEAT Board of Directors
• Member of the IPEAT Scientific Council
• Member of the Regional Scientific Council for Natural Heritage (CSRPN)
• Member of the NATURA2000 Steering Committee for the Armagnac Ponds
• Member of the Management Committee for the Moura ENS site
• Member of the RISZA network (Red Internacional para la Sostenibilidad de las Zonas Arida)

Major research projects and contracts

• 2017-2019 : Geohistorical study of the ENS site in Moura (Gers) and participation in the site enhancement project Convention Service ENS - GERS Departmental Council and GEODE UMR 5602 UT2J.
• 2017-2018 :  ZH Environmental and social issues in wetland management and restoration in southwestern France (Aveyron, Gers, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and Hautes-Pyrénées), APE (Call for Emerging Projects GEODE)
• 2016-2017 : « Le lac de Saint-Andéol : histoire d’un haut lieu depuis longtemps patrimonialisé » ["Lake Saint-Andéol: the story of a long-established heritage site"]APE (Call for Emerging Projects GEODE)
• 2016-2018 : « La réserve naturelle de Mapimí (Mexique 1977-2016) : Etude de cas autour d’une des plus anciennes réserves de biosphère » ["The Mapimí Nature Reserve (Mexico 1977-2016): Case study of one of the oldest biosphere reserves"]. Project UVED.
• 2014-2019 :  « Vulnérabilités, résilience et transition liées à l’accès à l’eau : acceptabilité sociale et faisabilité des transferts de technologie » [ Vulnerabilities, resilience, and transition related to access to water: social acceptability and feasibility of technology transfers"]. (at the interfaces between irrigated agricultural areas and peri-urban areas) (Chihuahua/Puebla – Mexico), PCP/RU2I University Network for Industrial Innovation Mexico
• 2010-2012 : PICS CNRS « Mutations des montagnes tropicales et environnement, Vulnérabilité liée à l’eau dans les Andes vénézuéliennes » [ Changes in tropical mountains and the environment, Water-related vulnerability in the Venezuelan Andes].
• 2013-2014 : Project Klife « Qualification des ressources naturelles entre usages et régulations : l'eau et la biodiversité des espaces pâturés en Midi-Pyrénées » [Qualification of natural resources between uses and regulations: water and biodiversity in grazing areas in Midi-Pyrénées] in partnership with INRA AGIR Toulouse
• 2010-2012 : PICS CNRS « Mutations des montagnes tropicales et environnement, Vulnérabilité liée à l’eau dans les Andes vénézuéliennes » [Changes in tropical mountains and the environment, Water-related vulnerability in the Venezuelan Andes] en collaboration avec la Universidad de Los Andes, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales et le CIAL
• 2004- 2005 : CNRS/FONACIT researcher exchanges n°16373, « Productions maraîchères et environnement dans les Andes vénézuéliennes » [Vegetable production and the environment in the Venezuelan Andes] in collaboration with the University of Los Andes, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales, Grupo Medio y Pedología. Laboratorio de Suelos. Instituto de Geografía y Conservación de los Recursos, Venezuela
• 2009-2011 : ECOS nord Colombie « Les relations entre systèmes de production et écosystèmes dans les Andes colombiennes » [Relationships between production systems and ecosystems in the Colombian Andes ] in collaboration with la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Facultad De Estudios Ambientales y Rurales. Depto Desarrollo Rural y Regional, Grupo Sistemas de Produccion Conservacion, Colombie
• 2010-2012 : ECOS nord Mexique « Transformations territoriales et irrigation paysanne dans les vallées de Puebla (Mexique) » [Territorial transformations and peasant irrigation in the valleys of Puebla (Mexico)] en collaboration avec le Colegio de postgraduado de Puebla, Mexique
• 2009-2012 : Participation in the research project MAELIA Multi Agent for EnvironmentaL norms Impact Assesment (modeling the socio-environmental impacts of renewable natural resource management and governance standards)
• 2010 : Projet MODHYC Measurement and Observation of Hydroclimatic Dynamics, as part of the OHM Pyrénées-Haut Vicdessos ()
• 2005-2009 : Contract « Contexte historique des étangs de l’Armagnac et du Ségala, dans le cadre de la procédure NATURA 2000, Rôle de l’histoire et de la gestion passée sur la richesse biologique actuelle » [Historical context of the Armagnac and Ségala ponds, within the framework of the NATURA 2000 procedure, Role of history and past management on current biological richness] in collaboration with l’ADASEA  Gers and l’ADASEA l’Aveyron
• 2005-2006 : Contract « Diagnostic érosion des sols, Etangs de l’Armagnac » [Soil erosion diagnosis, Armagnac ponds] in collaboration with l’ADASEA Gers and the Adour-Garonne Water Agency
• 2009-2010 : Contract « NATURA 2000 and the medieval ponds of Midi-Pyrénées (Ségala and Armagnac): objectives, effectiveness, and limitations of protection measures », in collaboration with ADASEA Gers and ADASEA Aveyron