The eighth session of the LATTS Seminar will take place on Monday, June 14, 2021.
It will focus on the book:
Uncertainty and Risk in Land Use Planning and Urban Development: Between Risk Management and Instrumentalization
Geneviève Zembri-Mary
ISTE Editions, 2020, 314 p.
Associations, elected officials, experts, residents, and project owners involved in development and urban planning operations and transportation projects face an uncertain context in which they must understand, manage, or take advantage of risk. The risks are many and varied, and can be social, political, institutional, financial, environmental, or archaeological.
This book examines the origin and nature of uncertainties and risks, as well as the practices implemented to mitigate or take advantage of them. Paradoxically, these practices generate new risks and power relationships between actors that differ from the standard collaborative planning model.
These paradoxes require us to rethink practices such as the territorialization of projects, risk-taking in planning and implementation, and the societal and political choices that must be made between project implementation and the protection of the natural and human environment.