Les affaissements miniers dans le bassin ferrifère lorrain : quand le territoire re-politise la gestion du risque

With the end of mining activity and the sale of miners’ dwellings, the question of subsidence, hitherto an industrial hazard, became an environmental risk. The damage caused by mining, an issue previously addressed privately by the owners, became the responsibility of government services when mining...

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Main Author: François Duchêne
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Language:fra
Published: Réseau Développement Durable et Territoires Fragiles 2008-10-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/developpementdurable/7073
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description With the end of mining activity and the sale of miners’ dwellings, the question of subsidence, hitherto an industrial hazard, became an environmental risk. The damage caused by mining, an issue previously addressed privately by the owners, became the responsibility of government services when mining concessions were handed over to the State. The handover was particularly delicate in the iron-ore basin of Lorraine, where the closeness of the ore to the surface made this area more liable to subsidence than others. Local reactions to the phenomenon were all the more heated as the territory was already in the throes of an economic crisis. The solutions sought by State services to safeguard against risk were primarily technical and sector-specific. However, it was not just houses that were ‘moved’ by the subsidence. It likewise provoked a reaction from local stakeholders who, with a political, economic and social heritage rooted in mining and the steel industry, had been bruised and battered by deindustrialisation. In the end, it was, in fact, due to a specific, territorial context, involving the mobilisation of social forces still deeply influenced by recent history, that the management and treatment of these risks took on a political dimension.
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spellingShingle François Duchêne
Les affaissements miniers dans le bassin ferrifère lorrain : quand le territoire re-politise la gestion du risque
Développement Durable et Territoires
Lorraine
mining subsidence iron-ore basin
mining risk
Mining Risk Prevention Plan (PPRM)
title Les affaissements miniers dans le bassin ferrifère lorrain : quand le territoire re-politise la gestion du risque
title_full Les affaissements miniers dans le bassin ferrifère lorrain : quand le territoire re-politise la gestion du risque
title_fullStr Les affaissements miniers dans le bassin ferrifère lorrain : quand le territoire re-politise la gestion du risque
title_full_unstemmed Les affaissements miniers dans le bassin ferrifère lorrain : quand le territoire re-politise la gestion du risque
title_short Les affaissements miniers dans le bassin ferrifère lorrain : quand le territoire re-politise la gestion du risque
title_sort les affaissements miniers dans le bassin ferrifere lorrain quand le territoire re politise la gestion du risque
topic Lorraine
mining subsidence iron-ore basin
mining risk
Mining Risk Prevention Plan (PPRM)
url https://journals.openedition.org/developpementdurable/7073
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