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Climate and defence strategy published by The French Ministry for the Armed Forces.
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Cette publication présente la réalisation d'une campagne de sensibilisation des collèges de l'arc méditerranéen aux épisodes pluvio-orageux de type cévenol.
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This article reviews the legislative framework for regulatory flood maps in the USA, France, and Quebec (Canada) and compares how residual risk behind protective structures is taken into account (or not) in regulatory flood maps.
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This report summarizes the risks posed on France's climate, ecosystems, food and water systems, and citizens by climate change, as well as the country's policies for mitigation, adaptation, and emissions reductions.
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This solutions paper answers the question: what should the G7 do to better avert and respond to crises in order to reduce both human suffering and the overall cost of crisis response? The paper identifies three solutions that the G7 should initiate.
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Despite persistent government efforts, the impacts of flood events in the Provence‑Alpes‑Côte d’Azur region have not lessened over time. Relative exposure to flooding has increased in France, apparently due to intense urbanization of flood-prone land.

This article discusses a new tool that can be used to map the benefits of nature in cities. Natural infrastructure such as parks, forests, street trees, green roofs, and coastal vegetation is central to sustainable urban management. Cities are uniquely

Across the world, flooding remains the most frequent and most damaging natural risk. This technical report begins by exploring the reasons for this state of affairs: hydrological regimes, the existence of extreme events as part of a continuous

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