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PROTOCOL: The Impact of Relocation Processes on Populations Facing Socio-Territorial Inequities: A Scoping Review Protocol: A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Campbell Syst RevABSTRACT Relocation processes are increasingly considered local adaptations to flooding. While relocation can offer many benefits, it also leads to socio‐economic and socio‐psychological consequences. Moreover, it tends to place greater pressure on populations experiencing socio‐territorial inequities compared to other households.
Chagnon P +3 more
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Flood risk mapping in southwestern Nova Scotia: Perceptions and concerns
Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 499-512, Winter / hiver 2023., 2023 Abstract Flood risk mapping allows for informed decision making regarding personal and community planning. Resistance to flood risk mapping can be driven by potential decline of property values. This paper explores resistance to flood risk mapping through the lens of climax thinking.
Samantha C. Howard, Kate Sherren
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Antipode, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 506-526, March 2023., 2023 Abstract In 2012, SCOR, one of the world's largest reinsurers, sued the French state, challenging a public–private natural disaster insurance scheme, called the “cat nat” regime. It campaigned in favour of a “real” natural disaster insurance market. The purpose of this paper is to grasp the logic of this litigation.
Razmig Keucheyan
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Témoignage d'acteurs - Urbanisme et risque « inondation », le cas de l'Île-de-France
Sciences, Eaux & Territoires, 2017 Des événements tels qu'une inondation majeure à l'échelle des bassins de la Seine ou de la Loire, ou un séisme dans le Sud de la France constituent, par leurs conséquences humaines, économiques, sociales et environnementales, les principaux risques d ...
L. FAYTRE
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Managing residual flood risk behind levees: Comparing USA, France, and Quebec (Canada)
Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Although hydraulic infrastructure such as levees remain important for flood risk management in the USA, France, and Quebec (Canada), there is increasing emphasis on nonstructural measures, such as regulatory flood maps, to reduce exposure and vulnerability, for example, preventing people from building in high hazard areas.
Anna Serra‐Llobet +3 more
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Réduire la vulnérabilité des territoires aux inondations : évaluer pour agir [PDF]
Sciences, Eaux & Territoires, 2017 Une mutation de la politique de gestion des risques d'inondation s'opère ces dernières années, passant du « tout protection » à la volonté de réduire la vulnérabilité des enjeux.
C. MOULIN, L. FAYTRE, N. BAUDUCEAU
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L’urbanisation de la ville de Ninh Binh dans le delta du fleuve rouge (Vietnam) : Mise en perspective des forces et faiblesses de la gestion du risque d’inondation [PDF]
, 2008 Les problèmes associés à la gestion des risques d’inondation sont une question d’actualité, mais aussi source de polémique. En effet, la manière dont ces risques sont gérés suscite généralement des avis très tranchés, les uns très positifs, les autres ...
Mottet, Éric, Roche, Yann
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Flexibility as a strategy to cope with uncertain water supply in spate irrigation*
Irrigation and Drainage, Volume 70, Issue 5, Page 1298-1313, December 2021., 2021 Abstract Unpredictable flash floods in ephemeral rivers are the water source for spate irrigation systems. An important element in the success and sustainability of spate irrigation systems is their ability to cope with highly uncertain water supply and high sediment load.
Eiman Fadul +2 more
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E3S Web of Conferences, 2016 French law on major risk preventive information for population setup the objective to make the citizen able to act for his own safety and to participate through his behaviour to the civil security.
Jadot Julien +3 more
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Remparts ou menaces ? Trajectoires politiques de l'endiguement en France, aux Pays Bas et aux Etats Unis [PDF]
, 2014 International audienceIn the 1990s, public policies of flood risk prevention in France have changed in nature. Construction of protective infrastructure that prevailed since the nineteenth century was challenged.
Bouleau, Gabrielle, Guerrin, J.
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