Coastal Erosion: Industry and Science Join Forces
Coastal risk prevention is a major challenge for all coastal countries, particularly those around the Mediterranean. To address this challenge, the University of Montpellier, the IRD, and the CNRS signed a framework partnership agreement with BRLI yesterday.
Purpose of this agreement : to model risks and improve the information available to government agencies, local authorities, and, more broadly, coastal stakeholders in order to optimize warning systems and crisis management.
Long-standing partners, the BRL Group—along with its subsidiary BRL Ingénierie (BRLI)—the Montpellier Geosciences Laboratory (UM), and the Mediterranean Environmental Research Observatory (OSU-OREME, UM) have been working together to enable researchers and engineers to expand their knowledge in order to better warn the public of extreme events. At the heart of their work are: coastal and shoreline protection; hydrometry of inland and coastal waters; risk management in coastal and shoreline areas; modeling of phenomena that generate natural hazards; marine sedimentology and shoreline evolution; and the impact of climate change.
The Languedoc-Roussillon Region, which is actively involved in issues affecting the Mediterranean coastline through the Parliament of the Sea, supports this collaboration between universities, research organizations, and industry stakeholders, which is fully in line with the direction of its public policy on the coastline and with the objectives of the IDEX project.