Geneviève Zembri-Mary
Uncertainty and risk in land use planning and urban development. Between risk management and risk exploitation in projects.
ISTE Editions, 2020, 314 p.
Associations, elected officials, experts, residents, and project owners involved in land use planning, urban development, and transportation projects face an uncertain environment in which they must understand, manage, or take advantage of risk. The risks are many and varied, ranging from social and political to institutional, financial, environmental, and 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 collaborative planning model of reference.
These paradoxes require a rethinking of 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.
English version:
Geneviève Zembri-Mary
Actions around uncertainty in Urban Planning and Infrastructure
Development
London, ISTE / WILEY, 2019, 316 p.
Those tasked with the planning and construction of infrastructure and development operations face an increasingly uncertain context in which they must address risks across a number of different fields. These range from the environmental and archaeological to the social, political, and financial. As a consequence, the formal and informal practices of stakeholders often incorporate projections of risk and opportunity.
Project Risks analyzes this paradigm shift. It reviews the origin and nature of these uncertainties, and the practices implemented by the actors to mitigate or take advantage of them. Paradoxically, these practices generate new risks and power relations that are not compatible with the collaborative planning model. These paradoxes force the rethinking of practices such as project territorialization, risk taking in planning and the responsibility of actors, as well as the societal and political choices that must be made between the realization of projects and the protection of the environment.