Flood risk: education and folk memory

Abstract

So far as natural risks are concerned, prevention has to exploit folk memory in order to be effective: the recollection of certain events in Savoie illustrates this requirement. However, in spite of the development of computer technology and means of communication, folk memory of risks is still too often defective and fragmentary and relies on disparate sources of information. Issuing warnings is also a means of informing and alerting mountain users so that they can adapt their behaviour to the constraints imposed by the natural dangers. The reintroduction of the "management of the property" for safety, this is the purpose of a new "risk education" policy.