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, IRD, and CNRS signed a framework partnership agreement with BRLI yesterday.
Purpose of this agreement : to model risks and improve information sharing among 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 (CNRS/UM), and the Mediterranean Environmental Research Observatory (OSU-OREME, CNRS/UM/IRD) work together to enable research and engineering to expand their knowledge in order to better warn populations of extreme events. At the heart of their work: coastal protection and shoreline management, hydrometry of inland and coastal waters, risk management in coastal and shoreline areas, modeling of phenomena generating natural hazards, marine sedimentology and shoreline evolution, and the impact of climate change.
Through its involvement in Mediterranean coastal issues via the Parliament of the Sea, the Languedoc-Roussillon Region supports this collaboration between universities, research organizations, and industry stakeholders, which is fully aligned with the objectives of its public policy on coastal areas and the goals of the IDEX project.