Support for local authorities - Decision-making assistance

The risk management governance divides decisions between national and local levels. Local authorities (region, department, city) play their part in risk prevention and management, depending on the assets they are responsible for (roads, schools, infrastructure, etc.).
Better prevention of seismic risk in urban areas involves identifying the bottlenecks or scientific issues to be overcome. Once identified by scientists, they can then be incorporated by local authorities into their risk management framework. This means supporting local authorities in shared risk management, improving the culture of seismic risk, reducing the vulnerability of buildings, and improving crisis preparation and management in order to reduce the recovery (or resilience) time.

Public policy support must also make use of stakeholders working at the science/decision boundaries (e.g. PARN, Pole Alpin pour la Gestion des Risques Naturels or IRMa, Institut des Risques Majeurs), for a better and faster adaptability of scientists and stakeholders, facing the rapidly evolving knowledge, rules and other elements relating to risk management.



Reference

• Guéguen, P., Janex, G., Nomade, J., Langlais, M., Helmstetter, A., Coutant, O., ... & Dollet, C. (2021). Unprecedented seismic swarm in the Maurienne valley (2017–2019) observed by the SISmalp Alpine seismic network : operational monitoring and management. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, 353(S1), 517-534.
• Guéguen, P., Lutoff, C., Davoine, P. A., Taliercio, G., Cotton, F., & Cartier, S. (2009). Analyse de la vulnérabilité sismique dans un pays à sismicité modérée : le cas de Grenoble. Risques naturels et environnement. In : Becerra S, Peltier A, eds. Recherches interdisciplinaires sur la vulnérabilité des sociétés, 285-301.

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