THEME 2 : Risk, vulnerability and territorial management
Theme 2 : Risk, vulnerability and territorial management
The study of risk fits within the UMR’s line of investigation, at the crossroads between development and environment. Environment-related concerns are connected to the existence of risk, to its causes, consequences and potential mitigation – whether risk is caused by development processes or by their absence. The notion of risk is essential in developing a better understanding of the many connections between development and the environment. At the heart of territorial issues are actual or (...)
Theme 2.1 Understanding urban vulnerability
Vulnerability is a widely commented concept that aims to account for everything that can contribute to weakening a society, a territory, a population or social or natural objects. Seen from this perspective, exposure to hazards is one of the types of vulnerability that allow a population, a territory or an element to function. A territory’s vulnerability is also characterised amongst other things by their ability to face major crises such as floods or earthquakes. Over recent years, (...)
Theme 2.2. Managing environments and territories against environmental risk
In the long-lasting relation between milieu and societies, socio-environmental change has raised global and local concerns, brutally revealing a new form of vulnerability in territories. To ensure that territorial development is viable, public policies need to meet the challenges of addressing slow, invisible and controversial risks – both on the scientific scene and on the public world stage. Currently, in the North as in the South, public policies for the management of natural risk have (...)
