Coastal erosion: industry and scientists join forces
Preventing coastal risks is a major challenge for all coastal countries, particularly those bordering the Mediterranean. To address this issue, the University of Montpellier, IRD, and CNRS signed a framework partnership agreement with BRLI yesterday.
Purpose of this agreement : modeling risks and improving information for government agencies, local authorities, and, more broadly, coastal stakeholders in order to optimize warning systems and crisis management.
Longstanding partners, the BRL Group, with its subsidiary BRL Ingénierie (BRLI), the Montpellier Geosciences Laboratory (CNRS/UM), and the Mediterranean Environment Research Observatory (OSU-OREME, CNRS/UM/IRD) work together to enable research and engineering to increase their knowledge in order to better warn populations of extreme events. Their work focuses on coastal and shoreline protection, hydrometry of continental and coastal waters, risk management in coastal and littoral areas, modeling of phenomena that generate natural hazards, marine sedimentology and shoreline evolution, and the impact of climate change.
Involved in issues affecting the Mediterranean coastline through the Parliament of the Sea, the Languedoc-Roussillon Region supports this collaboration between universities, research organizations, and industry players, which is fully in line with its public policy on the coastline and the IDEX project.