Programme
Keynote speaker
Brice Martin
Maître de conférences / senior lecturer in Geography
• UHA, FSESJ, Campus Fonderie, 16 rue de la Fonderie, 68093 Mulhouse Cedex
•brice.martin@uha.fr / http://www.cresat.uha.fr/page-des-chercheurs/brice-martin/
Research topics:
• Geography of risks: natural (snow avalanches, floods, landslides) and technological risks: cartography, territory, governance, planning, stakeholders interactions, memories and perceptions.
• Geohistory
• Environment geography.
• Géopolitics.
• Mountains (risks, agriculture, winter sports).
Research areas:
• East of France;
• Rhine Graben (Switzerland, France, Germany);
• Alps (Switzerland, France);
• SE Asia.
GEOHISTORY OF THE FRENCH – GERMAN FLOOD RISK IN THE RHINE GRABEN DURING THE LAST FOUR CENTURIES (TRANSRISK AND TRANSRISK² PROGRAMS)
Nicolas HOLLEVILLE1, Brice MARTIN1, Iso HIMMELSBACH1, Rüdiger GLASER2, Lauriane WITH1, Ouarda GUERROUAH1, Marie Claire VITOUX1, Axel DRESCHER2, Dirk RIEMANN2, Johannes SCHÖNBEIN2, Florie GIACONA1
1 UHA - CRESAT, France; 2 IPG – Freiburg, Germany
Email: Brice.martin@uha.fr
Abstract
The Franco-German project TRANSRISK (2008–2011) and TRANSRISK² (2014 – 2017) has made it possible to elaborate a comparative chronology of the floods in the area of the Upper Rhine over a long period, paying attention to the description of the events (characteristics, causes, consequences) as well as to the management by those in charge at the local scenes of occurrence. The objective was to understand the evolutions and to make comparisons at all levels, particularly between France and Germany. The interest of that research is twofold:
- It is carried out on a territory that is limited and relatively homogeneous, but divided between two nations, France and Germany, that have been at war in it on three occasions between 1870 and 1945.
- It concerns a major stake in local management, the prevention of floods, a hazard not well known in its spatio-temporal characteristics on account of the wars and of the many political and administrative changes that territory has gone through.
Research in the archives has thus made it possible to establish a basis of data including over 3.000 events relative to the floods noted in history between 1700 and the present involving the Rhine, and 13 tributaries on both side on the border. The most important of those floods have been mapped, classed, scaled and compared.
Keywords: Geohistory, flood, risk, Rhine
