Mapping and assessing territorial resilience through spatial ergonomics

Risks revealed by cartography – cartography renewed by the geovisualization of risks

“…The last two articles aim at making a representation via a map of risk histories related to rail infrastructures for improving anticipation of future risks (Saint-Marc, Villanova-Oliver, Davoine, Capoccioni, and Chenier, 2017), and to developing a new form of risk mapping based on the resilience concept (Propeck-Zimmermann, Saint-Gérand, Haniotou, and Skrimizea, 2018). In the case of the historical approach (Saint Marc et al, 2017) to risks linked with SNCF (French railway system) infrastructures, a risk geovisualization interface has been developed.…”

“…Repeated events for a given infrastructure can also be represented with this interface and cascade effects can be understood. Lastly, (Propeck-Zimmermann et al, 2018) develop risk visualization based on two resilience factors: absorption and the return to a new balance. The proposed approach has the merit of covering the systemic complexity of areas subject to risk.…”