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3. Notion of situation
In the context of cindynic approaches, a situation corresponds to a set of activities placed in a geographical environment and carried out by a network of actors (stakeholders) who establish concrete relationships between themselves, underpinned by goals, values, rules governing their activities, and models enabling them to implement the data they hold.
Using description theory, the cindynic approach can describe the dangerousness of a situation by means of a gaze (hyperspace) on each of its five dimensions, assimilated here to the notion of aspect. The dangerous situation on which this gaze is focused is the result of a cut-out.
As we have already seen, every situation is part of a chronological horizon, so the aim of cindynical approaches is to compare two situations at different points in time, in order to identify the events or operators...
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AFPCN – French association for the prevention of natural disasters http://www.afpcn.org
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- AFNOR Risk management – Principles and guidelines - NF ISO 31000 - 2010
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