Characterizing the vulnerability of cooperative economic systems in a context of hydro-climatic multi-risks and transition

Context and challenges

However, little scientific work has been undertaken to characterize the vulnerability of these systems in a multi-risk context, particularly in high-income countries where the systems have evolved considerably over the last 50 years.

Cooperative winegrowing systems are subject to long-term constraints that may or may not be linked to climate change, prompting them to undergo “transitional” changes in terms of practices and organization. They are also exposed to numerous hydroclimatic hazards, the consequences of which are the result of physical as well as organizational processes. To date, the vulnerability to each of these hazards has only been partially established. The interactions between these risks, as well as the consequences of transitional changes, have not yet been addressed. 

Goals

The aim of the COOPIX consortium is to define the issue within a multi-risk framework, based on a theoretical approach combined with field experience. The expectations of the project are to build a consortium to address this issue, to identify the scientific obstacles, and to propose an ANR-type research project to help overcome them.

The aim of the COOPIX consortium is also to contribute to characterizing the vulnerability of complex economic systems in a simultaneously multi-risk and transitional context. To achieve this, a series of seminars is planned to establish a common conceptual framework that will enable setting up a research project based on one or more case studies. In particular, we propose to draw on the scientific expertise of the various participants and to explore their complementarity with regard to an application case deemed particularly productive, namely cooperative wineries. The choice of this application case is based on previous work, both empirical and model-based, within the framework of various projects, particularly the RETINA project (Moatty A et al., 2017).

INRAE structures

Non-INRAE partners