How to cite: Gautier, J. (2022) When Geopolitical and Limnology Collide: New Representation of Lake Borders.
2022 ”Air and Water – Components of the Environment” Conference Proceedings, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, p. 75-
84, DOI: 10.24193/AWC2022_08
WHEN GEOPOLITICAL AND LIMNOLOGY COLLIDE: NEW REPRESENTATION OF LAKE BORDER
Julien GAUTIER
ABSTRACT. – This work should demonstrate the interest of a new concept to show the link between limnology and geopolitics. With the term of “limnic border”, we can demonstrate the difference between the zonal border in two dimensions, typical for geopolitics and the deep border, typical for limnology. The introduction will constitute a resume of the historic and epistemological evolution of the vision about border and natural lake and how geopolitical and limnology develop in different ways. We demonstrate the interest to associate these two views, with regard to a general approach associating “biophysical vision” and “anthropic vision”. With the definition of how we can think multiple separation about transboundary lake, we should demonstrate the accuracy and the interest of a new three-dimensional vision, “the limnic border”. We will demonstrate how we can show the accuracy of this new concept by a description of a cross methodology, included limnologic measures and survey.
Keywords: natural lake, limnic border, limnology, limnic territory, hydropolitics
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