| Summary : The coastal zone of Picardie is a land particulary exciting fot the geographers to study. In fact, the strategies of management there are but struggles ; the Baie de Somme inexorably fills itself and the public authorities keep on investing for the maintenance of his maritime character ; thus, the dike along the Bas-Champs of Cayeux (presently studied) is consolidated at a vast expense while the sea has naturally been lead to reoccupy them since the XVIIIth century. Since near three centuries indeed, man has been trying to substract definetely these “Bas-Champs” from the sea. Thus, in winter 1990, an important inundation occured which incited public authorities to keep on the same way, though an occasion of “accidental depolderisation” was offered. However, by the light of new stakes (economical, socialpolitical, physical...) recently made ovious, the mentalities of the “decision-makers” seem to change. Sea seems now considered no longer as a danger but as an opportunity. After redrawing, in the main lines, the creation and the management of this special space, we will produce an innovative project of depolderisation. It proposes both not to alter the richest spaces in terms of heritage (ecological, cultural) and to insist on the essential point : the protection of Cayeux and some inhabited zones in the “Bas-Champs” : they will able to be integrant part of a maritime territory with the set up of a “floating village” such as in Maasbommel (Netherlands). This project would register fully in the spirit of GIZC and sustainable development. These commonly-used concepts deserve that one will dwell up on them. |
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