Apports de la résilience à la géographie des risques : l’exemple de La Faute-sur-Mer (Vendée, France)

The paper investigates a very recent, yet challenged trend to use resilience concept in risk geography. It may reflect the need to understand increased coevolutions between urbanization and environment related disasters. This may be consistent with what we find in a science very close to geography,...

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Main Author: Patrick Pigeon
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Published: Éditions en environnement VertigO 2012-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/12031
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description The paper investigates a very recent, yet challenged trend to use resilience concept in risk geography. It may reflect the need to understand increased coevolutions between urbanization and environment related disasters. This may be consistent with what we find in a science very close to geography, ecology, from where resilience concept comes, at least in part. In both cases, the contradictory aspects of resilience can be stressed on. Yet, relying on a field case study, La Faute-sur-Mer disaster, we find that the contradiction may help geographical interpretation. It reveals that resilience, as well as disasters, may not have the same meaning depending on the scale and/or the actors of analysis. This interpretation seems consistent with what searchers belonging to resilience alliance group noticed before. And it helps to question the official UNO use of resilience as a concept which describes policies hoping to reduce disasters intensities while enhancing local societies capacity to cope.
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Apports de la résilience à la géographie des risques : l’exemple de La Faute-sur-Mer (Vendée, France)
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climate change
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resilience
ecology
geography
risks
title Apports de la résilience à la géographie des risques : l’exemple de La Faute-sur-Mer (Vendée, France)
title_full Apports de la résilience à la géographie des risques : l’exemple de La Faute-sur-Mer (Vendée, France)
title_fullStr Apports de la résilience à la géographie des risques : l’exemple de La Faute-sur-Mer (Vendée, France)
title_full_unstemmed Apports de la résilience à la géographie des risques : l’exemple de La Faute-sur-Mer (Vendée, France)
title_short Apports de la résilience à la géographie des risques : l’exemple de La Faute-sur-Mer (Vendée, France)
title_sort apports de la resilience a la geographie des risques l exemple de la faute sur mer vendee france
topic climate change
France
resilience
ecology
geography
risks
url https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/12031
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