Energetic metamorphosis of the Eume river basin

At the moment, we are increasingly aware of how our way of intervening in the territory impacts the landscape and natural systems limiting, blocking and/or reducing their resilience. There are now numerous management tools and methods to find "solutions supported by nature". The purpose of this work has been to characterize a geographical unit self-limited by its own orography, the Eume river basin. A territorial space deeply modified by the human interest that, in a few decades, suffered a great and partially irreversible transformation. The river territory is completely conditioned by the activity of the energy industry, which is now facing a complicated future of revision and reconversion.
The objective here is to study how this process has been like over the last century and to identify the opportunities that the territory offers us to be reconquered by the river system. The study of the state of health of the river has been done through its hydrogeomorphological complexity in the most anthropized section. This has made it possible to meet the regenerative needs of the system and to establish guidelines to reduce its pressures. The aim is to free the natural infrastructure and improve its environmental quality in order to then be able to "build" around it the connective framework, the green structure associated with obtaining the ecosystemic services capable of recovering the relationships in the inhabited landscape.