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The French Cat’ Nat’ system: post-flood recovery and resilience issues

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Successive French governments have progressively decentralised flood control policy to increase the role of local authorities in planning and crisis management. In 1982, a law mandated local risk maps for 5 types of exceptional natural hazards and set up Cat' Nat', a national system of damage compensation based on an insurance super-fund. While this system clearly improved the situation of victims of extreme events through subsidies in housing and infrastructure reconstruction, it did not necessarily foster a parallel reduction of vulnerability: insurance is more tuned to the past than to the future, and the tacit rule supports identical reconstruction so as not to increase the pre-disaster vulnerability (but not reducing it either). Yet indirectly, the recognition of a state of natural disaster triggers vulnerability reduction later, through various measures at various scales, from housing level (build back better) to the PAPI (action programs for flood prevention); we describe them and present a case study before presenting hypotheses to explain the resistance of private landowners as well as potential improvements to better bridge recovery and resilience.
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hal-04484810 , version 1 (29-02-2024)

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Bernard Barraqué, Annabelle Moatty. The French Cat’ Nat’ system: post-flood recovery and resilience issues. Environmental hazards, 2019, Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery, 19 (3), pp.285-300. ⟨10.1080/17477891.2019.1696738⟩. ⟨hal-04484810⟩
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