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Une vulnérabilité délibérément acceptée par les pouvoirs publics ? Extraction du charbon et inondations dans la vallée de la Haine, 1880-1940 ; A vulnerability deliberately accepted by public authorities? Coal mining and floods in the Haine Valley, 1880-1940

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العنوان: Une vulnérabilité délibérément acceptée par les pouvoirs publics ? Extraction du charbon et inondations dans la vallée de la Haine, 1880-1940 ; A vulnerability deliberately accepted by public authorities? Coal mining and floods in the Haine Valley, 1880-1940
المؤلفون: Troch, Kevin
المصدر: [VertigO] La revue électronique en sciences de l’environnement
بيانات النشر: Université du Québec à Montréal
Éditions en environnement VertigO
Érudit
OpenEdition
Les Éditions en environnement VertigO
VertigO - la revue électronique en sciences de l’environnement
سنة النشر: 2016
مصطلحات موضوعية: affaissements miniers, borinage, charbonnages, experts, inondations, impacts environnementaux, marais, politique économique, mines de charbon, mining subsidence, collieries, floodings, environmental impacts, swamps, economic policy, coal mining, geo, envir
الوصف: The environmental impacts of mining, especially regarding water, are a highly topical issue. However, historical studies on environmental vulnerabilities caused by mining industries are lacking. This article seeks to provide a historical highlight on the vulnerability to flooding in the Couchant de Mons coal basin. The Haine valley case is interesting because the effects of mining works on the water regime are old but it is from the 1880s onwards that the problem became crucial for the future of the region. The valley has undergone many floods between the 1880s and the 1940s, which is the period of intensive extraction of coal. Quickly, the collieries are accused of engendering these floods, or, at least, increasing their effects, because of the mining subsidence created by mining underground works. The intensive extraction of coal for six decades is the cause of the vulnerability of the valley to flood risk. These effects are still perceptible now. Yet, collieries were not involved in rivers landscaping projects. The Belgian State accepted even to carry on the burden of rivers landscaping works and the management of collapsed areas without involving the collieries at all. How to explain this “disjunction of responsibility” in the risk management to flooding in the Haine valley ? The purpose of this article is to understand how collieries have managed to convince government that subsidence engendered by their works doesn’t play the main role in the floods hitting the Borinage, mainly by studying the acts and discourses of the Committee of the Haine, a pressure group created by the collieries in 1925 following the disastrous floods of winters 1924-1926. ; L’impact des activités extractives sur l’environnement, notamment au niveau de l’eau, constitue une question d’actualité importante. Pourtant, les études historiques sur les vulnérabilités environnementales engendrées par les activités minières sont rares. Cet article entend apporter un éclairage historique sur la question de la vulnérabilité au risque ...
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: French
تدمد: 1492-8442
العلاقة: 10670/1.pqaas3; urn:doi:10.4000/vertigo.17998; http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1039977arTest
DOI: 10.4000/vertigo.17998
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.4000/vertigo.17998Test
http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1039977arTest
حقوق: lic_creative-commons ; undefined
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.5E930E45
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
تدمد:14928442
DOI:10.4000/vertigo.17998