Le réseau d’acteurs et ses représentations sociales : Méthode d’évaluation de la gestion des urgences et des risques à Saint-André de Kamouraska

Abstract

In this paper, we evaluate emergency and risk management by combining social network analysis and the study of social representations. We use a classical, bipartite network analysis method to highlight the key actors in emergency and risk management. The use of social representations anchors our data in a particular territorial experience. Indeed, the proposed article is a case study of the municipality of Saint-André-de-Kamouraska located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent administrative region of Quebec. We argue that the main advantages of our method are:
 
 to reveal the key actors in emergency and risk management;
 to reveal the impact of these actors on the governance of emergencies and risks;
 to draw the socialization to risk and emergency of the studied population.