As part of the Swiss Confederation's 2020-2024 Program Agreements, the Geneva Cantonal Office for Agriculture and Nature (OCAN) and the Cantonal Office for Water (OCEau) are working with HEPIA's landscape architecture department to set up a Rhône Observatory.
The Rhône is an open space, a penetrating greenway in Geneva with many qualities, offering services to a densely populated urban area. The complexity of climate and environmental issues, as well as the intensification and diversification of the types of actors and uses of this multifunctional open space, calls for new forms of management and/or governance that go beyond the silos of sectoral policies. Approaching the Rhône as a landscape monument means ensuring that the various components (ecological, economic, aesthetic, heritage, social, etc.) are taken into account between the scales of the local landscape, and the wider catchment area.
The objectives of this project are, on the one hand, to give concrete form to the establishment of the Rhône Observatory and, on the other, to facilitate the set-up of a transversal and adaptable governance, aligned with the evolving synergies of the socio-ecological mesh of this precious common heritage.
Project partner(s)
Project leader - team
Laurence Crémel
(HEPIA),
Natacha Guillaumont
(HEPIA),
Charlotte Chowney
(HEPIA),
Molly Fiero
(HEPIA)