Analyser la réception sociale du recul stratégique face au risque de submersion marine en Camargue et en Normandie à travers une expérience simulée

Abstract

This article studies the conditions of social reception of managed retreat as a response to coastal flooding, by risk managers (elected officials and agents) in Camargue and Normandy, through a participatory simulation conducted during workshops. After defining the notion of social reception chosen in relation to acceptability, the process of building reception through the participants’ player actions is described. The variety of forms of understanding that managers have of managed retreat and the temporal dimension are highlighted. Other factors of reception are then revealed (political context, social representations, perception of management scales) based on the analysis of the territorial discourses of the participants during the workshops. Through the parallels between game and reality, the study highlights the factors that determine the social reception of public policies for coastal risk management in each territory studied.

Keywords

• Social reception
• Coastal flooding
• Risk
• Managed retreat
• Participatory simulation