Les pollutions liées aux inondations urbaines, un enjeu pour la communauté scientifique francophone ? Une comparaison France-Canada
Résumé
In an urban context, flooding can be particularly dramatic given the vulnerability of certain populations, but also the diversity and number of urban issues. The focus on floods is often on high water levels, but here we propose to link it to pollution issues. First, we ask whether scientists recognize pollution from urban flooding as a social problem. Second, we analyze how scientists create knowledge about these pollutions. Finally, we wish to build a new historical database that highlights the interactions between floods and pollutions, since 2000, in France and Canada. Thus, we conducted about thirty semi-directive interviews with French-speaking scientists in France and Canada. These data were the subject of quantitative and qualitative analyses. These urban floods disrupt the urban metabolism, a conceptual framework that seems relevant to address the material, cognitive, and emotional dimensions of floods.