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Adaptation to climate change and industrial vulnerability

Benjamin Garnaud; Céline Ferret
Synthèses N°01/2010. Iddri, 2010. 4 p.

Présentation [en anglais]

In today’s societies, the production base made up by the industrial fabric acts as an important link between the climate and its variations and our lifestyle. However, several decades of experience have often enabled us to minimise the impact of the weather and its fluctuations on activities, making the industrial sector out to be purely artificial and protected from climate impacts. Yet climate change leads us to challenge this assumption: if the industrial base is supposed to be impervious to the current climate, is this still the case in a context of climate change?

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