|  The
program - The
research focus - The
role of the Institute - A
partner project
The program
When in the spring
of 2003 the Ministry for Ecology launched its call for
research proposals focusing on the issue "What
scientific support can be provided for local authorities
to manage the natural
and industrial
risks in a region?", the European
Risk Institute had already started to define
its fields of research in cooperation with institutional
authorities and university researchers from Upper and
Lower Normandy.
The call for research
proposals was an opportunity to associate even more
risk managers (government departments, communities,
industrialists etc.) and research teams in social
sciences located in the cities of Caen, Le Havre
and Rouen, and to correlate the needs of risk managers
with the potential scientific and methodological support.
In the end,
19 researchers in economics, geography, data processing,
law and sociology, in 8 laboratories, took part
in developing the project.
Further collaboration
was set up:
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with
the research project on the chemical corridor in
Lyons presented by the RIVES
laboratory (from the French acronym for Interdisciplinary
Research on the City, Space and Society) of the
ENTPE and the TSV
laboratory (Social and political Transformations
related to the Life Sciences) of the INRA;
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with the project of Anne
Lalo, lecturer in social psychology,
relating to the "dialogue"
section of the management guide for urban planning
in industrial sites which associates researchers
in sociology, linguistics and
geography from the Universities of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
and Toulouse-Le Mirail. |
"The
proposal is a superb project, backed by a
network of actors highly involved in a remarkable
regional dynamic",
underlined the members of the scientific council
in charge of evaluating the replies to the
call for research proposals by the Ministry.
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| Out
of some fifty proposals, the projects presented
by the European Risk Institute
and the RIVES laboratory were the only ones
with an approach to industrial risks based
on social sciences to be selected by the Ministry
of Ecology. |
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