Les Antilles françaises : entre risque sismique et stratégies locales de prévention

• Main Authors: Joseph Mavoungo, Patricia Balandier
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université des Antilles 2007-08-01
• Series: Études Caribéennes
• Subjects: vulnerability; seismic risk management; local strategy; preparedness
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/289

This article underlines the characteristic of the local policies followed recently in Martinique and Guadeloupe as regards seismic risk management. These French Departments of Americas, strongly exposed to the seismic threat, imply themselves recently in a true preventive dynamics supported by the action of the Communities. Local strategies of reduction of the human and technical vulnerability are tested for the benefit of the population. They come to reinforce or supplement the official efforts of French State aiming a greater implication of the citizen to his information and its safety against the earthquakes.