Études d’impact et enquêtes publiques : deux procédures réglementaires en inadéquation avec la gestion intégrée des espaces littoraux

Abstract

Environmental legislation in the planning decisions has been developed in France in the seventies. Coastal degradations due to the strong expansion of the human occupation became in the end of these years the object of several lawful measurements. Impact studies and public investigations form part of those, requiring to take into account the environment for a majority of management projects. However, the implementation of these two procedures sometimes appears not very effective because of the complexity of the coastal system, as prove certain examples taken on the French Atlantic coast. However, these lawful "tools" do not show an interest for coastal conservation, even the management of the coastal zone thanks to the data on the environment (physical, socio-economic) and space (lived, perceived) that they produce ?