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1. Notions of danger and risk
1.1 What's the danger?
From the very beginning of his existence, man has always been confronted with dangers that he had to face if he wanted to survive, leaving him most of the time powerless and afraid of the damage caused by the forces of nature. Seeing these dangers as divine punishment, ancient populations turned to divination and oracles.
Later, danger was seen as a material reality that generated the possibility of future damage attributed to real threats (natural phenomena, noxious substances, etc.).
It can also be explained as a capacity for which we know that encountering or interacting with a target considered vulnerable will have negative repercussions on the course of action (cf. the etymological idea of dominiarium ). Danger...
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AFPCN – French association for the prevention of natural disasters http://www.afpcn.org
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