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Jean-Paul Vanderlinden

Guest Researcher, UiB and Université Paris Saclay, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/CEARC Research center

I am currently developing a new research stream: local terminal risks as proxies for existential risks. I am exploring empirically, with human groups facing local terminal risks, the conditions under which action may induce a level of remanence that would be deemed acceptable. I am simultaneously exploring if, and if yes how, local terminal risk situations may be used as proxies for existential risks.

I have been engaged, for the past 15 years, in research activities on adaptation to climate change as a key thematic area.  I worked and work with local communities, analyzing how climate change is impacting or will potentially impact their daily lives.  I analyze adaptation to climate change using risk governance and land use planning as a conceptual entry point through the lens of integrated analysis. My main geographical focus is the coastal zone. I am also conducting research on the epistemic dimension of interdisciplinary work. In terms of method, I use grounded theory in order to analyze qualitative data (corpuses) and to develop theoretical propositions that are grounded in the heuristics of the research subjects I am working with. I have been using art and science integration as a data collection and analysis methodological device.

Peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters

2020-present

Vanderlinden, J.-P., & Touili, N. (2022) La question du "sens" dans le choix des options de réduction des risques côtiers : quelles éthiques pour quelle métapolisation ? In D. Salles, Mainguy, G., & De Godoy Leski, C., Métropoles estuariennes : anticipations des changements globaux, ISTE, Paris

Da Cunha, C., Nikulkina, I., Vanderlinden, J.-P., Shadrin, V., Doloisio, N., & Salakhova, D. (2022) Adaptive capacity for climate change: local initiatives and federal planning. The case of Tiksi, Sakha Republic, Russia. Regional Environmental Change.

Rouhaud, Estelle & Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul (2022) 10 years and going strong? Coastal flood risk management in the wake of a major coastal event (the 2010 Xynthia storm, Charente Maritime, France). Climate Risk Management. Volume 35.

Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul; Rouhaud, Estelle & Touili, Nabil (2022) Knowledge and Its Legitimacy, an Exploratory (Meta)Ethical Framework-Based Analysis of Narratives on Coastal Flooding Risks in a Changing Climate. Frontiers in Climate. Volume 4

Baztan, J., Vanderlinden, J.-P., Jaffrès, L., Jorgensen, B., Zhu, Z., (2020). Facing climate injustices: Community trust-building for climate services through arts and sciences narrative co-production. Climate Risk Management, 30, pp.100253.

Berman, M., Baztan, J., Kofinas, G., Vanderlinden, J.-P., Chouinard, O., Huctin, J.-M., . . . Thomson, K. (2020). Adaptation to climate change in coastal communities: Findings from in seven sites on four continents. Climatic Change, 159, 1-16.

da Cunha, C., Rocha, A., Cardon, M., Breton, F., Labeyrie, L., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (prepublicaiton online 2020). Adaptation planning in France: inputs of narratives of change to support an art and science co-construction process. Climate Risk Management.

Doloisio, N., Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2020). The perception of permafrost thaw in the Sakha Republic (Russia): narratives, culture and risk in the face of climate change (Russia). Polar Science.

Jézéquel, A., Dépoues, V., Guillemot, H., Rajaud, A., Trolliet, M., Vrac, M., Vanderlinden, J.-P., & Yiou, P. (2020). Singular Extreme Events and Their Attribution to Climate Change: A Climate Service–Centered Analysis. Weather, Climate, and Society, 12(1), 89-101.

Nymand Larsen, J., Schweitzer, P. Abass, K. Doloisio, N., Gartler, S., Ingeman-Nielsen, T., Ingimundarson, J.H., Jungsberg, L., Meyer, A., Rautio, A., Scheer, J., Timlin, U., Vanderlinden, J.P., & Vullierme, M. (2021). Thawing Permafrost in Arctic Coastal Communities: A Framework for  Studying Risks from Climate Change. Sustainability.

Sansoulet, J., Therrien, M., Delgove, J., Pouxviel, G., Desriac, J., Sarde, N., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2020). An update on Inuit perceptions of their changing environment, Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin Island, Nunavut). Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 8(1), 025.

Vanderlinden, J.-P., Baztan, J., Chouinard, O., Cordier, M., Da Cunha, C., Huctin, J.-M., . . . Thomson, K. T. (2020). Meaning in the face of changing climate risks: connecting agency, sensemaking and narratives of change through transdisciplinary research. Journal of Climate Risk Management.

2015-2019

Baztan J., Cordier M. Huctin J.-M., Zhu Z., Vanderlinden J.-P. (2017), "Life on thin ice: Insights from Uummannaq, Greenland for connecting climate science with Arctic communities", Polar Science, (13); 100-108.

Defrance, D., Ramstein, G., Charbit, S., Vrac, M., Famien, A. M., Sultan, B., ... & Vanderlinden, J. P. (2017). Consequences of rapid ice sheet melting on the Sahelian population vulnerability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(25), 6533-6538.

De Pryck, K., Vanderlinden, J.-P., & Billaud, J.-P. (2018). L’animation scientifique dans la pratique interdisciplinaire : l’expérience du GIS Climat Environnement Société (2007-2015). Nature Science Société, 26(1), 76-83.

Dépoues, V., Vanderlinden, J.-P., & Venturini, T. (2019). Entre dire et faire : discours scientifique sur le changement climatique et adaptation du système ferroviaire français. VertigO, Volume 19 Numéro 2, octobre 2019.

Jézéquel, A., Dépoues, V., Guillemot, H., Trolliet, M., Vanderlinden, J.-P., & Yiou, P. (2018). Behind the veil of extreme event attribution. Climatic Change, 149(3-4), 367-383.

Jézéquel, A., Yiou, P., & Vanderlinden, J. P. (2019). Comparing scientists and delegates perspectives on the use of extreme event attribution for loss and damage. Weather and Climate Extremes, 100231.

Kane, I. O., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2016). L’utilisation du concept polysémique de résilience : une analyse empirique en zone côtière. VertigO, special issue 23.

Kennedy, G., Raimonet, M., Berman, M., Gaye, N., Huctin, J. M., Kaleekal, T., & Vanderlinden, J. P. (2018). Environmental History and the Concept of Agency: Improving Understanding of Local Conditions and Adaptations to Climate Change in Seven Coastal Communities. Global Environment, 11(2), 405-433.

Schwab, M., Meinke, I., Vanderlinden, J.-P., and von Stroch, H. (2017). Regional decision-makers as potential users of extreme weather event attribution - case studies from the German Baltic Sea coast and the Greater Paris area, Weather and Climate Extreme, 18, 1-17.

Stott, P., Christidis, N., Otto, F., Sun, Y., Vanderlinden, J.-P., van Oldenborgh, G. J., . . . Zwiers, F. (2016). Attribution of extreme climate events. WIREs Climatic Change, 7(1), 23-41. 

Touili, N., et Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2017).  Mesures non structurelles, flexibilité adaptative et gestion du risque : étude de cas des inondations dans l’estuaire de la Gironde (France), Vertigo, 17(2).

Vanderlinden, J.-P., Baztan, J., Touili, N., Kane, I. O., Rulleau, B., Simal, P. D., . . . Zagonari, F. (2017). Coastal Flooding, Uncertainty and Climate Change : Science as a Solution to (mis)Perceptions?  - A qualitative enquiry in three European coastal settings. Journal of Coastal Research, 77 (sp1), 127-133.

Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2015). Prévoir l'imprévu. Ceriscope Environnement et relations internationales. http://ceriscope.sciences-po.fr/environnement/sommaire Retrieved from http://ceriscope.sciences-po.fr/environnement/sommaire

2010-14

Baztan, J., Carrasco, A., Chouinard, O., Cleaud, M., Gabaldon, J. E., Huck, T., . . . Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2014). Protected areas in the Atlantic facing the hazards of micro-plastic pollution: First diagnosis of three islands in the Canary Current. Marine Polution Buletin, 80(1-2), 302–311.

Blanchard, A., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2010). Dissipating the fuzziness around interdisciplinarity: the case of climate change research. Surveys and Perspectives Integrating Environment and Society (S.A.P.I.EN.S), 3(1). http://sapiens.revues.org/990 Retrieved from http://sapiens.revues.org/990

Blanchard, A., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2012). Interdisciplinarité et outils réflexifs : vers une approche globale des trames vertes urbaines, VertigO, 12. http://vertigo.revues.org/11798 Retrieved from http://vertigo.revues.org/11798

Blanchard, A., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2013). Prerequisites to interdisciplinary research for climate change: lessons from a participatory action research process in Île-de-France. International Journal of Sustainable Development, 16(1/2), 1-22.

Da Cunha, C., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2014). Adaptation aux changements globaux Quel apport de la transdisciplinarité? Revue Française de Socio-économie, 13, 277-282.

Kane, I. O., Vanderlinden, J.-P., Baztan, J., Touili, N., & Claus, S. (2014). Communicating risk through a DSS: A coastal risk centred empirical analysis. Coastal Engineering, 87, 240-248.

Losada, I. J., Alonso, E. G., Mendez, Zanuttigh, B., Nicholls, R. J., Thompson, R., … Vanderlinden, J.-P., … Bagli, S. (2012). A holistic evaluation of risks in coastal regions under changing climatic, environmental and socioeconomic conditions: the Theseus Decision Support System. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 14.

Narayan, S., Nicholls, R. J., Clarke, D., Hanson, S., Reeve, D., Horrillo-Caraballo, J., . . . Vanderlinden, J. P. (2014). The SPR systems model as a conceptual foundation for rapid integrated risk appraisals: Lessons from Europe. Coastal Engineering, 87, 15-31.

Touili, N., Baztan, J., Vanderlinden, J.-P., Kane, I. O., Diaz-Simal, P., & Pietrantoni, L. (2014). Public perception of engineering-based coastal flooding and erosion risk mitigation options: Lessons from three European coastal settings. Coastal Engineering, 87, 205-209.

Vanderlinden, J.-P., Pacteau, C., Joussaume, S., & Blanc, N. (2012). Structuration novatrice de la recherche interdisciplinaire sur les changements climatiques, une expérience francilienne. VertigO, Special issue 12. http://vertigo.revues.org/11882 Retrieved from http://vertigo.revues.org/11882

Avant 2010

Bastien-Daigle, S., Vanderlinden, J.-P., & Chouinard, O. (2008). Learning the ropes: Lessons in integrated management of coastal resources in Canada's Maritime Provinces. Ocean & Coastal Management, 51(2), 96-125.

Mc Carthy, N., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2004). Resource Management under Climatic Risk: A Case Study from Niger. Journal of Development Studies, 40(5), 120-142.

Ouattara, I., Chouinard, O., Tranchant, C., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2008). Changements climatiques, migrations et défis de la gestion de l’environnement : le cas d’un village au cœur de la tourmente au Burkina Faso. VertigO, 8(3).

Co-direction d’ouvrages collectifs / Edited Books

Baztan, J., Chouinard, O., Jorgensen, B., Tett, P., Vasseur, L., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2015). Coastal Zones: Solutions for the 21st Century. New-York: Elsevier.

Baztan, J., Jorgensen, B., Pahl, S., Thompson, R., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (Eds.). (2016). Fate and Impact of Microplastics in Marine Ecosystems: From the Coastline to the Open Sea. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Chouinard, O., Baztan, J., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (Eds.). (2011). Les zones côtières face au changement climatique: le défi de la gestion intégrée. Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec

Zanuttigh, B., Nichols, R., Vanderlinden, J.-P., Burcharth, H. F., & Thomson, R. C. (Eds.). (2015). Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate. London: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann.

Book Chapters

Bastien-Daigle, S., Vanderlinden, J.-P., & Chouinard, O. (2011). Les perceptions de la mise en oeuvre d'une gesiton intégrée en zone côtière au Canada Atlantique. In O. Chouinard, J. Baztan, & J.-P. Vanderlinden (Eds.), Zones côtières et changements climatiques: les défis de la gestion intégrée (pp. 79-97). Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec.

Baztan, J., Jorgensen, B., Vanderlinden, J.-P., Pahl, S., Thompson, R., Carrasco, A., . . . Paul-Pont, I. (2015). Protected shores contaminated with plastic: From knowledge to action. In J. Baztan, O. Chouinard, B. Jorgensen, P. Tett, J.-P. Vanderlinden, & L. Vasseur (Eds.), Coastal Zones: Solutions for the 21st Century (pp. 185-195). New-York: Elsevier.

Chouinard, O., Baztan, J., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2011). Conclusion: Les zones côtières face au changement climatique. In O. Chouinard, J.-P. Vanderlinden, & J. Baztan (Eds.), Les zones côtières face au changement climatique: le défi de la gestion intégrée (pp. 231-234). Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec.

Chouinard, O., Baztan, J., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2011). Introduction: Les zones côtières face au changement climatique. In O. Chouinard, J.-P. Vanderlinden, & J. Baztan (Eds.), Les zones côtières face au changement climatique: le défi de la gestion intégrée (pp. 1-12). Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec.

Chouinard, O., Delusca, K., Tramblay, M., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2006). Les enjeux de la gouvernance environnementale locale dans les communautés côtières du sud-est du N.-B. dus à l’augmentation du niveau de la mer dans le contexte des changements climatiques. In A. Magord (Ed.), Adaptation et innovation : expériences acadiennes contemporaines (pp. 181-193). Berne: Peter Lang.

Chouinard, O., Desjardins, P.-M., Forgues, E., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2003). La gestion environnementale du bassin versant de la baie de Caraquet. In C. Gendron & J.-G. Vaillancourt (Eds.), Développement durable et participation publique (pp. 287-305). Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal.

Chouinard, O., Martin, G., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2006). La gouvernance et l'adaptation au changement climatique : le cas du sud-est du Nouveau-Brunswick. In M. Simard, D. Lafontaine, S. Savard, M. Tremblay, & P.-A. Tremblay (Eds.), Inégalités, démocratie et développement : Des enjeux pour la gouvernance des territoires locaux et régionaux (pp. 273-287). Rimouski: UQAR, ARUC-ÉS-CRDT-GRIDEQ-GRIR.

Chouinard, O., & Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2007). La transformation des communautés de pêcheurs de la côte atlantique canadienne et acadienne du Nouveau-Brunswick : une explication à partir de l'analyse " régulationniste " et des mouvements sociaux. In C. Gendron & J.-G. Vaillancourt (Eds.), Environnement et sciences sociales: les défis de l'interdisciplinarité (pp. 311-333). Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval.

Ciumasu IM, Culver K, Costica M, Vanderlinden JP (forthcoming 2021). Ecosystems: Planning and Tradeoffs. In Brian Fath (Editor in Chief), Handbook of Environmental Science, Volume 2 - Managing Biological and Ecological Systems. CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group).

Hissel, F., Baztan, J., Bichot, A., Olivier Brivois, Felts, D., Heurtefeux, H., . . . Vanderlinden, J. P. (2015). Managing Risk in a Large Flood System, the Gironde Estuary, France. In B. Zanuttigh, R. Nichols, J.-P. Vanderlinden, H. F. Burcharth, & R. C. Thomson (Eds.), Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate (pp. 408-442). London: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann.

Koundouri, P., Zanuttigh, B., Davila, O. G., Vanderlinden, J. P., Hanson, S., Nicholls, R., . . . Penning-Rowsell, E. (2015). Toward Sustainable Decision Making. In B. Zanuttigh, R. Nichols, J.-P. Vanderlinden, H. F. Burcharth, & R. C. Thomson (Eds.), Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate (pp. 275-323). London: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann.

Nicholls, R., Zanuttigh, B., Vanderlinden, J. P., Ralf Weisse, Silva, R., Hanson, S., . . . Koundouri, P. (2015). Developing a Holistic Approach to Assessing and Managing Coastal Flood Risk. In B. Zanuttigh, R. Nichols, J.-P. Vanderlinden, H. F. Burcharth, & R. C. Thomson (Eds.), Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate (pp. 9-54). London: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann.

Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2000). Conflicts and cooperation over the commons: A conceptual and methodological framework for assessing the role of local institutions. In N. McCarthy, B. Swallow, M. Kirk, & P. Hazell (Eds.), Property rights, risk, & livestock development in Africa (pp. 276-296). Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute.

Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2000). The Niger Case Study. In N. McCarthy, B. Swallow, M. Kirk, & P. Hazell (Eds.), Property rights, risk, & livestock development in Africa (pp. 351-370). Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute.

Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2001). Chocs environnementaux, structure des droits de propriété et économie agro-pastorale dans le sud-ouest du Niger. In EricTielkes, E. Schlecht, & P. Hiernaux (Eds.), Élevage et gestion de parcours au Sahel, implications pour le développement (pp. 275-281). Stuttgart: Verlag Ulrich E. Grauer.

Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2001). Environnement institutionnel local et gestion des terres de parcours dans la région agro-pastorale du sud-ouest du Niger. In E. Tielkes, E. Schlecht, & P. Hiernaux (Eds.), Élevage et gestion de parcours au Sahel, implications pour le développement (pp. 155-163). Stuttgart: Verlag Ulrich E. Grauer.

Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2003). Processus multipartite de collaboration et planification régionale du développement viable: une question d’échelle? Comparaison du bassin versant de la rivière Bouctouche (Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada) et du bassin versant du sud du Golfe du St.-Laurent (Canada). In A. Magord (Ed.), L'Acadie plurielle (pp. 963-974). Moncton: Centre d'études acadiennes.

Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2011). Former des étudiants aux métiers de l'environnement. In Collectif ADRET (Ed.), La révolution des métiers verts (pp. 132-136). Paris: Autrement.

Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2015) Prévoir l'imprévu. In Gemenne, F. (Ed.), L'enjeu mondial.  L'environnement. Presses de Sciences Po, Paris.

Vanderlinden, J.-P., Baztan, J., Coates, T., Davila, O. G., Hissel, F., Kane, I. O., . . . Touil, N. (2015). Nonstructural approaches to coastal risk mitigations. In B. Zanuttigh, R. Nichols, J.-P. Vanderlinden, H. F. Burcharth, & R. C. Thomson (Eds.), Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate (pp. 237-274). London: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann.

Vanderlinden, J.-P., & Chouinard, O. (2006). Gestion intégrée des zones côtières du nord et de l’est du Nouveau-Brunswick: Un programme de recherche au service de communautés dans un contexte d’adaptation et d’innovation. . In A. Magord (Ed.), Adaptation et innovation : expériences acadiennes contemporaines (pp. 206-219). Berne: Peter Lang.

Vanderlinden, J.-P., Chouinard, O., Friolet, R., & Audet, M. (2006). De la parole actes : le défi de la mise en œuvre de la gestion intégrée pour le bureau régional du Golfe de Pêches et Océans Canada. In A. Magord (Ed.), Adaptation et innovation : expériences acadiennes (pp. 207-219). Berne: P. Lang.

Vanderlinden, J.-P., & Friolet, R. (2011). Gestion intégrée de la zone côtière dans un contexte aquacole.  L’expérience de la baie de Caraquet, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada. In O. Chouinard, J.-P. Vanderlinden, & J. Baztan (Eds.), Les zones côtières face au changement climatique: le défi de la gestion intégrée (pp. 57-78). Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec.

Vanderlinden, J.-P., Quenet, G., Da Cunha, C., & Baztan, J. (2015). Paradigm shifts, coastal zones and adaptation to fast paced change: Moving toward transdisciplinary community centred approaches. In J. Baztan, O. Chouinard, B. Jorgensen, P. Tett, J.-P. Vanderlinden, & L. Vasseur (Eds.), Coastal Zones: Solutions for the 21st Century (pp. 3-9). New-York: Elsevier.

With the SVT, I am currently (2022) engaged in the research project SeMPER-Arctic. I was also involved in Knowledge quality assessment as a sense-making device: an enquiry into uncertainties, agency and climate change (KQA-SMD) which was completed in 2021.

In April 2021, I was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project PREFER in my capacity as professor at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ). The project will start in October 2022.