Riverains de cours d'eau et gestionnaires du risque, un dialogue impossible ? / Riverside residents and natural hazards managers, an impossible dialogue ?

Abstract

When those responsible for managing natural hazards talk about riverside residents they send to present general cases often little related to the actual, more complex territorial realities. In adopting an overall view of hazard perception, we present various results of a study undertaken amongst riverside residents along to rivers in the urban area of Lyon. The river is but one territorial element, and the importance which is accorded to it can be modified by both individual and collective events. Protection systems ca be either material or symbolic, helping to make living conditions more tolerable in the case of a flood. If such features are ignored in discussions with riverside residents, the information provided by those responsible for managing hazards is likely to prove of little use.