Territorial intelligence of vulnerability systems -A transitional viewpoint of sustainable development

Philippe Woloszyn (1) , Béatrice Quenault (1) , Guillaume Faburel (2)

1 ESO - Espaces et Sociétés
2 TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique

The use of vulnerability as a main concept, especially as an essential component of risk has been generalized from a decade or so. Together with resilience properties of human structures, it therefore constitutes the principal entry for crossing environmental and social sustainability factors, mostly apprehended from environmental harmfulness and risk perspectives, as shown in the related works in environmental psychology. The vulnerability of a system depends on the state of the system itself, on the capacity of a hazard to affect this state taking into account the exposure, the sensitivity and the adaptive capacity of the system to this event and on the undesired consequences the combination of the hazard and the vulnerability will eventually lead to.

Mots clés: Territorial Intelligence; Territorial Vulnerability; Resilience System

Domaines: Etudes de l'environnement; Géographie; Ecologie, Environnement

Philippe Woloszyn, Béatrice Quenault, Guillaume Faburel. Territorial intelligence of vulnerability systems -A transitional viewpoint of sustainable development. Vulnerabilities and Resilience between Local and Global, UNISA - DISUFF Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Filosofiche e della Formazione, GDRI INTI Group de Recherche International International Network of Territorial Intelligence, Jun 2012, Fisciano (SA), Italy. ⟨hal-01546823⟩