Understanding the production and regulation of environmental conflicts to characterize a risk-securing trajectory. The case of the Grenoble plain (from 1219 to 1778)

Comprender la producción y la regulación de los conflictos del medio ambiente para caracterizar una trayectoria de aseguramiento del riesgo. El caso de la planicie de Grenoble frente a las inundaciones (1219-17787)

Yvan Renou (), Antoine Brochet () and J.d Creutin
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J.d Creutin: IGE - Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Fédération OSUG - Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

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Abstract: This paper deals with the historical evolution of flood prevention institutions in the plain surrounding Grenoble, from 1219 to 1789. Based on an analysis of the existing scientific literature, we map the evolving relationship between the inhabitants and the public authorities to cope with flooding. For this purpose, we use the notion of hydro-social contract. We elaborate a grid based on historical institutionalism in order to examine the quality of the institutions coping with flood risk over time. Meanwhile we follow a critical approach in the sense that we look at flooding as an indicator of environmental inequalities. Our results enable the identification of three periods of time, each with its own way of providing the population with flood protection. We show a gradual transfer of responsibility for flood intervention, which moved from the feudal communities through to the city of Grenoble and finally to the central State. In terms of institutional arrangements, we highlight the changing structure of these institutions over time and also across the cognitive, normative and regulative stages. This paper presents finally the advent of a complex institutional regime that resulted in major freedom limitations to both the population and the rivers.

Keywords: flood history; Grenoble; hydro-social contract; historical and critical institutionalism; environmental inequalities; historia del riesgo de inundaciones; planicie de Grenoble; contrato hidro-social; histoire du risque inondation; plaine de Grenoble; contrat hydro-social (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-12-31
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Published in Revue de la régulation. Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, 2020, 28 (2), ⟨10.4000/regulation.18191⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/regulation.18191

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