Figure | Cities and urbanization | Julia Paul-Venturine

In 2020, 17 million people in France were exposed to flooding from overflowing rivers and 1.4 million to the risk of marine submersion*.

In a context of population and housing growth, the challenge of limiting their exposure in concerned areas is all the more important, notably through the implementation of risk prevention plans.

Julia Paul-Venturine identifies the impact of these plans on all the territories covered in France.

* Source: DGPR / Ministry of Ecological Transition (2020).

Julia Paul-Venturine is a PhD student at the Paris School of Economics and at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She also holds a master’s in Applied Economics from the Paris School of Economics. Her research focuses on urban economics, public economics and political economy.

Based on the work:

• Working paper: Paul-Venturine J., Build at your own risk. Integrating disaster hazards into land use regulations, 2023.

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Articles:

• Achutarao K., Adhikary B., Allan R., Arias P., Armour K., Bellouin N., Coppola E., Jones R., Krinner G., Marotzke J., Naik V., Palmer M., Plattner G.-K., Rogelj J., Rojas M., Sillmann J., Storelvmo T., Thorne P., Trewin B. & Zickfeld K., 2021, “Climate change 2021: the physical science basis. contribution of working group I to the sixth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change; technical summary”.

• Beltrán A., Maddison D. & Elliott R. J. R., 2018, “Is flood risk capitalised into property values?”, Ecological Economics, 146 (November 2016), pp 668-685.

• Combes P.-P., Duranton G. & Gobillon L., 2021, “The production function for housing : evidence from France”, Journal of political economy, 129 (10), pp 2766-2816.

• Grislain-Letrémy C. & Villeneuve B., 2015, “Prévention des catastrophes naturelles : viser le long terme sans attendre”, Revue d’économie financière, 117 (1), pp 127-136.

• Hovekamp W. & H. Wagner K. R., 2023, “Efficient adaptation to flood risk”, SSRN Scholarly Paper, No 4344415.

• Mauroux A., 2015, “Exposition aux risques naturels et marchés immobiliers”, Revue d’économie financière, 117 (1), pp 91-103.

• Pautard E., 2014, “Le sentiment d’exposition aux risques environnementaux”, Commissariat général au développement durable, (567).

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