This pillar addresses, in an interdisciplinary and integrated manner, the scientific challenges posed by crises occurring in (peri-)urban and/or industrialized areas where multiple vulnerabilities converge.

Particular attention is paid to systemic risks with different kinetics, cascading or combined risks (for example, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan that led to the Fukushima disaster), as well as emerging threats linked to climate change and anthropogenic activities.

Challenges

  • Challenge 1. Assess and integrate uncertainties at all stages of risk assessment and crisis management, including communicating to various stakeholders and considering the specificities and constraints of the industrial/urban/densely populated environment.
  • Challenge 2. Decipher the physical and social processes and precursors of crises at very fine urban spatial and temporal scales, and their interactions with broader spatial and temporal scales.
  • Challenge 3. Improve data collection and event documentation in real time using diverse sources, including environmental observations, video, imagery, and information shared on social networks.

Other pillars

Exercices RICHTER - Phase terrain
Pillar 1: Science and society – risks, resilience, and adaptation strategies
Current global systemic changes – whether climatic, societal, or technological – are creating new threats for human societies. These threats and the ways to address them are the subject of extensive …
Simulation de propagation d’ondes sismiques en bassin sédimentaire
Pillar 2: Data, quantitative models, and algorithms for risk analysis and decision support
Cet axe méthodologique concerne le continuum allant de l'observation, la modélisation, les effets en cascade et les métriques de risque, jusqu'à la décision.
Vue sur le Lyskamm
Pillar 3: Risks in mountain and coastal areas
This pillar aims to better understand, predict, and mitigate risks in mountain and coastal areas, from the characterization of natural hazards and underlying phenomena, to decision-making and societa…
Conséquences suite au cyclone Gamède aux Antilles
Pillar 5: Risks in overseas territories and intertropical zones
Pillar 5 focuses on the intense and frequent seismic and hydrometeorological hazards faced by populations in overseas territories and intertropical regions: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis,…
Calcul de cartes de risques et d’une carte de risque avec effets de concomitance sur la base de cartes d’aléas et des éléments exposés existantes aux échelles moyennes et larges (selon définitions K. Graff), le wf02 est de type multi-aléa et multirisques avec possibilité de moduler les effets d’un aléa sur l’autre
Pillar 6: Platform infrastructure
Risk assessment requires a dedicated infrastructure of platforms to capture complexity, bring together the full range of expertise needed, and enable cross-fertilization and knowledge sharing with a …