A Transdisciplinary Approach to Emerging Territorial Risks: Redefining Crisis Management in a Global Warming Context – ATEsT

The recurrence and violence of emerging risks in a given area, combined with global warming, are prompting the actors of civil protection to work on both the "breakthrough in risk management" and the need to adapt their practices to deal with them. In response to this societal challenge, the ATEsT project proposes a transdisciplinary approach to crisis and crisis management (in terms of events) that questions the contribution of digital technology both in the conceptualisation of crisis and in the practices: What are the new info-communication processes involved in building resilient local communities? Are new simulation tools, such as agent-based modelling, relevant for assessing these risks and helping to build or strengthen resilient local communities? How can crisis management actors be supported in their planning for an event, based on these modelling tools?
The project aims to manage the emerging risks of an area and to improve its resilience in the face of global warming by addressing two socio-technical objectives for the resilience of populations and their tools. 1) Rethinking the crisis, its events and their management from an info-communication point of view (i.e. the tools, systems of actors and hybrid processes involved) to support more collaborative practices and encourage the development of new doctrines in the face of the disruption scenarios envisaged for a territory 2) Designing and developing a software prototype that (i) develops emerging risk scenarios using agent-based simulations and enables them to be visualised, and (ii) proposes response schemes for civil security players by integrating their practices, doctrines and citizen initiatives through knowledge engineering.