Coastal Flooding and Storm Surges: How to Improve the Operational Response of the Risk Management Authorities: An Example of the CRISSIS Research Program on the French Coast of Languedoc
Résumé
This chapter presents an example of the CRISSIS research programme launched to study the French Mediterranean coast in Languedoc in spring 2015 over a two-year period. The first component of the CRISSIS project focuses on characterizing the coastal flood risk and its likely evolution in a context of climate change and sea level rise. The second stage in the programme was characterizing and mapping human and material vulnerability relative to the coastal flooding risk in Leucate. The third component of the programme focuses on socio-cultural vulnerability appraised using a geo-sociological study to characterize the level of risk culture in Leucate. The operational component of the CRISSIS programme was designed to test the crisis management approach applied in Leucate by organizing two drills that were devised, run, and assessed by students on a vocational master's course specialized in crisis management, supervised by crisis management professionals.