The impacts of environmental change on water resources
A case study in the Dyle catchment (Belgium) in support of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive
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Probation officers (POs) supervise citizens serving a sanction within the community under conditions restricting their liberty. This thesis proposes two empirical studies exploring the nature and conditions of officer-offender interactions during public service delivery in Belgium. Lire la suite
Probation officers (POs) supervise citizens serving a sanction within the community under conditions restricting their liberty. This understudied group of street-level bureaucrats operates in a high-risk environment where resources are limited and where managerial reforms can interfere with their work ethos.
This thesis proposes two empirical studies exploring the nature and conditions of officer-offender interactions during public service delivery in Belgium. First, I implemented a thematic analysis of interviews conducted with Belgian POs to examine how they adapt offender supervision in response to multiple work constraints. Second, I used a structural equation modelling of survey data to examine how individual and organizational factors affect the importance officers attach to their trustworthiness assessments when opting for a given course of action with their supervisees.
A synthesis of the results reveals that, despite multiple constraints, POs maintain benevolent practices with some offenders. POs assess offenders in two successive steps that are each associated with a specific set of organizational (first step) and individual (second step) conditions that affect their preferences for specific offender traits. Ultimately, POs' benevolent practices are mostly oriented towards the probationers who are considered the most deserving: individuals who are simultaneously in urgent need for help and care, who are regarded as trustworthy, but who do not seem to present any major risk for the community. These results should be applicable to other probation systems as well as many other street-level organizations where frontline workers manage caseloads and operate a guidance of citizen-clients.
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- Presses universitaires de Louvain
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Numéro 54
- Auteur
- Agnieszka Aleksandra Romanowicz,
- Collection
- Thèses de la Faculté d'ingénierie biologique, agronomique et environnementale | n° 54
- Langue
- anglais
- Catégorie (éditeur)
- Sciences appliquées > Agronomie et agriculture > Milieu et aménagement du territoire
- BISAC Subject Heading
- TEC003000 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture
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- 06 Professionnel et académique
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019 )
- 3070 Agriculture
- Date de première publication du titre
- 26 novembre 2020
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- Classification thématique Thema: Agriculture et élevage
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- Thèse
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- 27 octobre 2011
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- D/2011/9964/17 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
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List of tables...................................................................................................6
List of figures..................................................................................................8
List of figures..................................................................................................8
List of abbreviations.......................................................................................9 Acknowledgements.......................................................................................11
Chapter 1. Introduction.............................................................................13
1.1. Introduction............................................................................................13
1.1.1. Water Framework Directive (WFD)................................15
1.1.2. Integrated modelling.........................................................17
1.2. Objectives..............................................................................................19
1.3. Outline of the methodology...................................................................19
1.4. Outline of the thesis...............................................................................21
Chapter 2. Study region and data.............................................................23
2.1 Description of the Dyle catchment.........................................................23
2.2. The Dyle catchment- administrative situation.......................................26
2.3. Available data sets for the Dyle catchment............................................28
2.3.1. River discharges...............................................................28
2.3.2. Weather data set...............................................................29
2.3.3. GIS data............................................................................30
2.4. The study sub-catchments......................................................................31
2.4.1.The Thyle catchment.........................................................31
2.4.2. The Nethen catchment......................................................31
Chapter 3. Hydrological models................................................................33
3.1. Introduction............................................................................................33
3.2. WFD – a modellers perspective.............................................................33
3.3. Hydrological modelling to support Integrated Water Resource Management.................................................................................................36
3.3.1. Hydrological model selection criteria..............................36
3.3.2. Classification of models used in hydrology.....................37
3.4. Model selection for Integrated Water Resource Management within the Belgian case study........................................................................................39
3.5. The Geographical Information Systems in hydrological models...........47
3.5.1. Coupling GIS to hydrological models..............................48
3.6. Model used for the Dyle application......................................................49
3.6.1. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)...............50
3.6.1.1. SWAT model – data preparation and parameterisation.................................................................50
3.6.1.1.1. SWAT model and GIS.......................................51
3.6.1.1.2. SWAT model data sets.......................................52
3.6.2. Meshed Hydrological Model - MHM..............................52
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3.6.3. Comparison between the SWAT model and the MHM...53
3.7. Conclusion.............................................................................................55
Chapter 4. Sensitivity of the SWAT model to the soil and land use data parameterisation: a case study in the Thyle catchment, Belgium..........57
4.1. Introduction............................................................................................57
4.2. Materials and methods...........................................................................58
4.2.1 Model description..............................................................58
4.2.2 The catchment area............................................................59
4.2.3.General input data.............................................................60
4.2.3.1. Soil parameterisation.............................................62
4.2.3.2. Modelling..............................................................63
4.2. 4 Model evaluation..............................................................64
4.2.4.1 Evaluation of the pre-processing............................64
4.2.4.2 Evaluation of the hydrological modelling..............65
4.3. Results and discussion...........................................................................67
4.3.1 Evaluation of the generic land use and soil map...............67
4.3.2 Evaluation of the hydrological modelling.........................73
4.4. Conclusion.............................................................................................77
Chapter 5. Storm basin management for a flooding event in an ungauged catchment...................................................................................79
5.1. Introduction............................................................................................79
5.2. Flooding- problems in the Nethen sub-catchment.................................80
5.3. Scenarios development..........................................................................82
5.4. Definition of the model evaluation data set...........................................83
5.5. Application of the SWAT model to the Nethen catchment...................84
5.6. Results....................................................................................................86
5.7. Discussion and conclusion.....................................................................88
Chapter 6. Deriving global change scenarios for hydrological modelling in the Dyle catchment.................................................................................91
6.1.Introduction.............................................................................................91
6.2. Future Scenario Construction................................................................91
6.2.1.Overview...........................................................................91
6.3. Climate change scenarios.......................................................................95
6.3.1 Climate change scenarios for the Dyle catchment............95
6.4. Land use change scenarios.....................................................................97
6.4.1. The ATEAM Land use change scenarios in the Dyle catchment....................................................................................97
6.5. Land use change downscaling method for the Dyle catchment...........101
6.5.1. Introduction....................................................................101
6.5.2. Material and Methods.....................................................103
6.5.2.1. Data preparation..................................................103
6.5.2.2. Logistic regression analysis.................................104
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6.5.2.3. Deriving the explanatory variables for the Dyle.107
6.5.3. Results............................................................................110
6.5.4. Discussion......................................................................114
6.6.Conclusions...........................................................................................117
Chapter 7. Impact of environmental change on the hydrology of the Dyle.............................................................................................................119
7.1. Introduction..........................................................................................119
7.2. Model parameterisation.......................................................................120
7.2.1.Land cover data set of the SWAT model........................120
7.2.2. Transfer of CSTV parameterisation to the Dyle............123
7.3. Modelling.............................................................................................125
7.4. Results..................................................................................................126
7.5. Discussion............................................................................................130
7.6. Conclusions..........................................................................................132
Chapter 8. Conclusions and Perspectives...............................................135
8.1.Conclusions...........................................................................................135
8.2. Perspectives.........................................................................................140
8.3. Recommendations................................................................................142 References...................................................................................................143
Web pages...................................................................................................154
Annex I.......................................................................................................155
Annex II......................................................................................................157
Annex III.....................................................................................................169
Annex IV....................................................................................................174
Annex V......................................................................................................177
Annex VI....................................................................................................179