{"id":952,"date":"2026-01-14T11:57:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenseas.fr\/?p=952"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:36:41","slug":"rendez-vous-greenseas-4-the-rights-of-nature-in-between-contested-eutrophicated-landscapes-reflecting-as-honest-witness-mar-menor-murcia-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greenseas.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/rendez-vous-greenseas-4-the-rights-of-nature-in-between-contested-eutrophicated-landscapes-reflecting-as-honest-witness-mar-menor-murcia-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rendez-vous GreenSeas #4 – The rights of nature in-between contested eutrophicated landscapes: reflecting as honest witness (Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

L\u2019\u00e9quipe du projet recherche ANR GreenSeas<\/a> a le plaisir de vous inviter \u00e0 la quatri\u00e8me session des Rendez-vous GreenSeas<\/em><\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cette s\u00e9rie de webinaires est l\u2019occasion d\u2019inviter des sp\u00e9cialistes \u00e0 venir pr\u00e9senter leurs travaux en lien avec des th\u00e9matiques de recherche centrales pour les \u00e9quipes du projet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour ce quatri\u00e8me webinaire, qui se d\u00e9roulera en ligne le vendredi 13 f\u00e9vrier \u00e0 14h<\/a><\/strong>, et en anglais nous nous int\u00e9resserons \u00e0 une configuration encore largement in\u00e9dite d’attribution d’une personnalit\u00e9 juridique \u00e0 une lagune c\u00f4ti\u00e8re s\u00e9v\u00e8rement affect\u00e9e par l’eutrophisation et des \u00e9pisodes d’anoxie, la Mar Menor, dans la r\u00e9gion de Murcie en Espagne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invit\u00e9e : Violeta Cabello<\/strong> (Basque Centre for Climate Change)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Violeta Cabello is a social environmental scientist with a research trajectory on water governance, knowledge co-production and social-ecological systems. She is specially interested in mixed and participatory methods grounded in relational ontologies. Recently she is experimenting with arts-based research as a means to leverage transformative change towards more sustainable and just futures. She holds a PhD in Human Geography and an interdisciplinary background from both social and natural sciences. She has collaborated with water governance organisations in Spain for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Violeta Cabello est une chercheuse sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9e dans les questions sociales et environnementales, dont les recherches portent sur la gouvernance de l’eau, la coproduction de connaissances et les syst\u00e8mes socio-\u00e9cologiques. Elle s’int\u00e9resse particuli\u00e8rement aux m\u00e9thodes mixtes et participatives fond\u00e9es sur les ontologies relationnelles. R\u00e9cemment, elle s’est engag\u00e9e dans dans des d\u00e9marches de recherche-cr\u00e9ation, dans la perspective de contribuer \u00e0 une transformation vers un avenir plus durable et plus juste. Elle est titulaire d’un doctorat en g\u00e9ographie humaine et poss\u00e8de une formation interdisciplinaire en sciences sociales et naturelles. Elle collabore avec des organisations de gouvernance de l’eau en Espagne depuis plus de 20 ans. 

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Discussion : Alix Levain <\/strong>(CNRS, EMR 6004 POSSEA-AMURE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ANR GreenSeas research project team is pleased to invite you to the fourth session of Rendez-vous GreenSeas. This series of webinars is an opportunity to invite national or international specialists to present their work on topics central to the project. This fourth webinar will take place online Friday February 13th, from 14:00 to 16:00<\/strong>. We will focus on a largely unprecedented configuration granting legal personality to a coastal lagoon severely affected by eutrophication and episodes of anoxia, the Mar Menor, in the Murcia region of Spain.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mar Menor is a saltwater coastal lagoon located in an agrarian watershed in the region of Murcia, Southeastern Spain. Over the past decade, it has gone through a series of eutrophic events including algae blooms and fish mortality from anoxia. These events prompted an important sociopolitical conflict with multiple actors, political parties and levels of governance involved, ultimately leading to a societal cleavage between \u2018the land\u2019 and \u2018the sea\u2019 communities. In 2021, a citizen-led legal initiative collected more than 600,000 signatures and submitted to the Spanish Government  a law to grant legal personhood to the lagoon. The law was approved in Oct 2022 and, after some intents of blockage, commenced its implementation early 2025. A new bottom-up governance structure is now being crafted amidst existing ones, opening a pathway into an uncertain transformation of this territory. In December 2025, the Mar Menor has been assigned a personal Spanish ID number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this talk, I will share the story of the Mar Menor as I have personally lived it during a 4 year social research project aimed at opening dialogue spaces in a contested landscape. I have explored the controversies over the causes and solutions to the eutrophication of the lagoon, and strived to unpack the different political, scientific and emotional layers feeding the polarizing dynamic in the region.  From an external, enthusiastic yet cautious position, I will reflect on the opportunities and risks the lagoon as a legally recognised subject bears, acknowledging that everything is now being re-assembled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R\u00e9sum\u00e9 : <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

La Mar Menor est une lagune c\u00f4ti\u00e8re d’eau sal\u00e9e situ\u00e9e dans un bassin versant agricole de la r\u00e9gion de Murcie, dans le sud-est de l’Espagne. Au cours de la derni\u00e8re d\u00e9cennie, elle a connu une s\u00e9rie d’\u00e9pisodes d\u2019eutrophisation s\u00e9v\u00e8res, notamment des prolif\u00e9rations d’algues et des mortalit\u00e9s de poissons dues \u00e0 l’anoxie. Ces \u00e9v\u00e9nements ont d\u00e9clench\u00e9 un important conflit sociopolitique impliquant de multiples acteurs, partis politiques et niveaux de gouvernance, qui a finalement conduit \u00e0 un clivage social entre les communaut\u00e9s \u00ab terrestres \u00bb et \u00ab maritimes \u00bb. En 2021, une initiative juridique citoyenne a recueilli plus de 600 000 signatures et a soumis au gouvernement espagnol  un projet de loi visant \u00e0 accorder la personnalit\u00e9 juridique \u00e0 la lagune. La loi a \u00e9t\u00e9 approuv\u00e9e en octobre 2022 et, apr\u00e8s quelques tentatives de blocage, sa mise en \u0153uvre a commenc\u00e9 d\u00e9but 2025. Une nouvelle structure de gouvernance ascendante est actuellement mise en place depuis les structures existantes, ouvrant la voie \u00e0 une transformation incertaine de ce territoire. En d\u00e9cembre 2025, la Mar Menor s’est vu attribuer un num\u00e9ro d’identification personnel espagnol, ent\u00e9rinant la reconnaissance de sa personnalit\u00e9 juridique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans cette conf\u00e9rence, je partagerai l’histoire de la Mar Menor telle que je l’ai v\u00e9cue personnellement au cours d’un projet de recherche-intervention en sciences sociales de quatre ans visant \u00e0 ouvrir des espaces de dialogue dans un paysage contest\u00e9. J’ai explor\u00e9 les controverses sur\u00a0les causes et les solutions \u00e0 l’eutrophisation de la lagune, et je me suis efforc\u00e9e de d\u00e9m\u00ealer les diff\u00e9rentes couches politiques, scientifiques et \u00e9motionnelles qui alimentent la dynamique de polarisation dans la r\u00e9gion.\u00a0 D’un point de vue ext\u00e9rieur, enthousiaste mais prudent, je r\u00e9fl\u00e9chirai aux opportunit\u00e9s et aux risques que pr\u00e9sente la lagune en tant que sujet l\u00e9galement reconnu, en prenant en consid\u00e9ration le fait que les premiers effets observables de cette reconnaissance sont une r\u00e9organisation profonde et encore inachev\u00e9e des mobilisations et structures de gestion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inscription obligatoire\/ inscription compulsory<\/strong> : https:\/\/cnrs.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/IGC8RgFiSP-uyeGwbHS7eA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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