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Sébastien Nobert

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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de géographie

Complexe des sciences office B-6043

s.nobert@umontreal.ca

514 343-6111 #37172

Affiliations

  • Membre – CÉRIUM — Centre d'études et de recherches internationales

Areas of Expertise

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Le projet GAP de la Turquie : au-delà du développement Thèses et mémoires dirigés / 2020 - 2020
Graduate : Harb, Julie
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Thèses et mémoires dirigés

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Effets indirect de l'activité Maritimo-Portuaire: hydrodynamiqye appliquée au transport sédimentaire et à l'environnement (EMPHASE) Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2024

Lead researcher : Damien Pham Van Bang
Co-researchers : Sébastien Nobert
Funding sources: FRQNT/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FQRNT)
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Appel à projets franco-québécois dans le secteur maritime

Understanding the limits of risk instruments in an era of climate change: An exploration of the institutional geographies of climate services in Europe Projet de recherche au Canada / 2019 - 2024

Lead researcher : Sébastien Nobert
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PV153480-Subventions de développement Savoir

Supplément COVID-19 CRSH / Understanding the limits of risk instruments in an era of climate change: An exploration of the institutional geographies of climate services in Europe Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2021

Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Supplément à l’appui des étudiants, des stagiaires postdoctoraux et du personnel de soutien à la recherche COVID-19

Building resilience additional funding. Unseen but not unfelt: resilience to persistent volcanic emissions (UNRESP). Projet de recherche à l’international / 2017 - 2019

Co-researchers : Sébastien Nobert

Scoping the societal dimensions of climate services in China Projet de recherche à l’international / 2014 - 2016

Lead researcher : Sébastien Nobert

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Articles et chapitres avec comité de lecture

Nobert, S. and Wen C.(2022) Unpacking climate services: knowledge politics, beneficent humanitarianism and the realpolitik of risk management in China, Political Geography https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102697

Whitty, R. C. W., Pfeffer, M. A., Ilyinskaya, E., Roberts, T. J., Schmidt, A., Barsotti, S., Strauch, W., Crilley, L. R., Pope, F. D., Bellanger, H., Mendoza, E., Mather, T. A., Liu, E. J., Peters, N., Taylor, I.A., Francis, H., Hernández Leiva, X., Lynch, D., Nobert, S., and Baxter, P. (2022) Assessing the effectiveness of low-cost air quality monitors for identifying volcanic SO2 and PM downwind from Masaya volcano, Nicaragua. Volcanica

Nobert, S., Krieger, K and Pappenberger F. (2022) Understanding the political fabric and effects of ensemble flood forecasts in Europe. In Rebotier, J. (ed.) Understanding the Governance and Risk in the Anthropocene era. Routledge, London: 45-60. 

Nobert, S., Krieger, K and Pappenberger F. (2021) Du prédictif au probabiliste ? Mieux comprendre les dimensions politiques du basculement conceptuel dans la prévision des risques d’inondation en Europe. In Évaluation et Gouvernance des Risques à l’heure de l’Anthropocène. (ed.) Julien Rebotier, ISTE, London: 20-35.   

Nobert, S., Bellanger Rodríguez, H., and Hernadez, X.(2020) Colliding times: Urgency, resilience and the politics of living with volcanic gas emissions in the Anthropocene. In Resilience and the Anthropocene: Governance, and Politics at the end of the World. (eds). Chandler, D., Grove K., and Wakefield, S. London: Routledge. 

Nobert, S. and Pelling, M. (2018) The social life of the London 2013 heat wave: Recasting the role of community resilience. In Framing Community Disaster Resilience: resources, capacities, learning and action. (eds)Pedoth, L., Cheney, S., Fordham, M., Deeming, H., Kuhlicke, C. London: Wiley & Sons.

Nobert S, and Pelling M, (2017) What can adaptation to climate-related hazards tell us about the politics of time making? Exploring durations and temporal disjunctures through the 2013 London heat wave, Geoforum, Vol. 85, pp. 122-130 doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.07.010 

Nobert, S. (2017) The Anthropocene and the challenge of implicated time, Science as Culture https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2017.1339682

Nobert S, Rebotier J, Vallette C, Bouisset C, and Clarimont S, (2016) Resilience for the Anthropocene? Shedding light on the forgotten temporalities shaping post-crisis management in the French Sud Ouest; Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses dx.doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2016.1241479 

Nobert, S., Krieger, K. and Pappenberger, F. (2015), Understanding the Roles of Modernity, Science and Risk in Shaping Flood Management, WIREs Water, doi: 10.1002/wat2.1075

Demeritt, D. and Nobert, S. (2014) Models of risk communication and the myth of best practice in flood risk management. Environmental Hazards, Vol. 13 (4), pp. 313-328.

Nobert, S. (2013) Nationalism, (dis)simulation, and the politics of science in Québec’s forest crisis, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Vol. 103 (6), pp 1332-1347.

Demeritt, D., Nobert, S., Cloke, H. and Pappenberger, F. (2013) The European Flood Alert System (EFAS) and the communication, perception and use of ensemble predictions for operational flood risk management, Hydrological Process, Vol. 27, pp. 147-157.

de Roo, A., Thielen, J., Salamon, P., Bogner, K., Nobert, S., Cloke, H., Demeritt, D., Younis, J., Kalas, M., Bodis, K., Muraro, D. and Pappenberger, F. (2011). Quality Control, Validation and User Feedback of the European Flood Alert System (EFAS), International Journal of Digital Earth, Vol.4, pp. 77-90.

Demeritt, D. Nobert, S. (2011) EFAS and early flood warning in the EU. In Forecasting, Warning, and Transnational Risks: Is Prevention Possible?,(eds.) C.O. Meyer &a C. De Franco, London: Palgrave.

Demeritt, D., Nobert, S., Cloke, H. and Pappenberger, F. 2010. Challenges in communicating and using ensembles in operational flood forecasting, Meteorological Applications, Vol. 17, pp. 209-222.

Nobert, S., Demeritt, D. and Cloke, H.  2010. The use of Ensemble Prediction Systems in operational flood forecasting: Lessons from Sweden, Journal of Flood Risk Management, Vol. 3, pp. 72-79.

Nobert, S. (2008) The Elephant in the Forest and the Irony of the Environmental Debate in Québec, Scottish Geographical Journal, Vol. 124, pp. 204-210. 

Compte rendu de lectures avec comité de lecture

 Nobert, S. (2016) Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003, Chicago Press University, by Richard C. Keller, in Modern and Contemporay France, dx.doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2016.114295

Nobert, S. (2009) Review of Environmental Citizenship: Integrating Justice, Responsibility and Civic Engagement, by Mark. J. Smith and Piya Pangsapa, in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 175, pp. 319.


Rapports et transfert de résultats

Rebotier, J., Bouisset, C., Clarimont, S., et Nobert, S. (2017) Accompagner les changements vers des territoires résilients : Quelle résilience pour quels acteurs dans le Bassin de Lacq et dans le massif des Landes. Rapport écrit pour le Ministère de l’Ecologie, du Développement Durable et de l’Energie.

Nobert, S, Weng, C, Desai, S, Liu, B, Desai, S. (2015) Mapping Climate Services and Information Needs in China, Newton Fund Final Report written for the UK Met Office, pp.21.  

Demerit, D., Nobert, S. Cloke, H., Pappenberger, F. (2013) Improving the use of the European Flood Alert System, Science for Environmental Policy, European Commission, Vol 40, pp.1.  

Demeritt, D. and Nobert, S. (2013) Communication and transfer to decision makers, stakeholders and end users with standard methods: a baseline description of risk communication practice in the KULTURisk case studies, FP7-ENV-2010 | Project 265280, WP5, D.5.2, pp. 1-29.

Ruin, I. Lutoff, C., Creton-Cazanave, L., Anquetin, S., Borga, M., Chardonnel, S. Creutin, J-D., Gourley, J.J., Gruntfest E., Nobert, S. and Thielen, J. (2012) A space-time framework for integrated studies, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93, ES89–ES91.

 Demeritt D., Nobert, S. (2011) Models of ‘good’ risk communication for flooding and other water-related hazards: a critical review, FP7-ENV-2010 | Project 265280, WP5, pp. 1-40.

Demeritt D., Nobert S., and Cloke H. L. (2011) Research report (RES-062-23-0913): Europeanizing flood forecasting and the geographies of risk and science in the EU. Annex to final project report to the Economic and Social Research Council. Copy available from authorupon request.

Cloke H., Thielen, J., Pappenberger, F., Nobert, S. Bálint, G., Cristina Edlund, Ar i Koistinen, Céline de Saint-Aubin, Erik Sprokkereef, Christian Viel, Peter Salamon, Roberto Buizza (2009) Progress in the implementation of Hydrological Ensemble Prediction Systems (HEPS) in Europe for operational flood forecasting, ECMWF Newsletter, No. 121, pp. 20-24.

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Problèmes environnementaux : Quelle réponse politique? Arrêt sur le monde 1er octobre 2018

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