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1. Origin of the concept (1980s)
Although we all know that cities have always been places of both opportunity and risk, the emergence of the specific notion of "urban risks" in France is undoubtedly due to the congruence of three phenomena, each of which marked the 1980s: the emergence of the "risk society" theme in advanced countries, the decentralization of political power in France, and the resurgence of the question of urban engineering.
1.1 Risk society
The emergence of the theme of the "risk society", to use the title of Ulrich Beck's famous book , is all too well known and has been so widely taken up and...
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Center for studies and expertise on risks, the environment, mobility and development (CEREMA) https://www.cerema.fr
French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks (INERIS) http://ineris.fr
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