Preventing natural risks means ensuring the safety of people and property by taking into account natural phenomena, by anticipating them.

This policy aims to enable the sustainable development of territories by undertaking the following actions:

• better understand the phenomena and their impacts;
• monitor natural phenomena whenever possible;
• raise awareness and inform the population about the risks concerning them and the ways to protect themselves from them;
• taking risks into account in planning decisions;
• protect and adapt current and future installations;

• learn from harmful natural events when they happen.