Vulnerability, Territory, Population

Samuel Rufat is Professor at CY Cergy Paris University and the Institut Universitaire de France. His research interests include vulnerability, resilience, adaptation assessments, geospatial modeling, risk perception, emergency management and disaster mitigation.Pascale Metzger is a researcher at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and a member of the Prodig laboratory. She studies risks and environment in the large cities of Latin America and highlights the role of social sciences in disaster risk reduction.

• Introduction xiiiSamuel RUFAT and Pascale METZGERPart 1 The Multiple Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches to Vulnerability 1Chapter 1 Plural Vulnerabilities: Approaches in the Humanities 3Sylvia BECERRA and Anne PELTIERChapter 2 Conceptual Models of Vulnerability or Vulnerabilities 25Samuel RUFATChapter 3 Risks, Crises and Ordinary Vulnerability 43Pascale METZGERChapter 4 Vulnerabilities, Risk Governance and the Interplay of Stakeholders 63Julien LANGUMIERPart 2 Territorial Approaches and Vulnerability Assessments 85Chapter 5 The Challenge of Measuring and Operationalizing Vulnerabilities 87Samuel RUFATChapter 6 Assessing Territorial Vulnerability: Concepts and Methods for an Integrated Approach to Vulnerability 113Elise BECK and Jérémy ROBERTChapter 7 Analyzing the Vulnerability of Networks and Critical Infrastructures 135Serge LHOMMEChapter 8 From the Health Vulnerability of Territories to the Reduction of Health Inequalities 153Zoé VAILLANT and Stéphane RICANPart 3 From Tools to Public Policies, Discourses and Actions 169Chapter 9 What Are Vulnerability Maps For? 171Samuel RUFAT and Patrick PIGEONChapter 10 Measuring Vulnerability: By Whom and for Whose Benefit? The Significance of Participation 195Loïc LE DÉ, JC GAILLARD, Louise BAUMANN and Jake Rom CADAGChapter 11 Vulnerability in a Time of Climate Change and Global Urbanization 213Béatrice QUENAULTChapter 12 Actors and Discourses of Vulnerability Reduction: From International to Local 235Sandrine REVET and Pascale METZGERConclusion 257Samuel RUFAT and Pascale METZGERList of Authors 265Index 267