This theme forms the core of UTLN’s ‘Marine Sciences and Mediterranean Societies’ research area, driven by a broad interdisciplinary community centred on research activities aimed at advancing our understanding, monitoring, conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal environments.
Observations and modelling help to inform our understanding of coastal dynamics and the assessment of environmental risks, for example in relation to climate change.
This theme examines the human impacts on the marine environment, as well as the effects of environmental changes on the communities living in coastal areas. To this end, it draws on research in the humanities and social sciences, particularly in the fields of maritime economics and the law of the sea.
Shared objectives:
- Generating knowledge and technological innovations relating to marine structures and the marine environment, with a view to improving their protection and the sustainability of related activities
- Development of sustainable and innovative materials to protect the marine environment
- Characterisation of human impacts on coastal ecosystems and environmental monitoring
- Design of digital tools for environmental communication, coastal protection and marine education
- Prevention and management of marine and coastal risks
Centres of expertise involved:
- POLSEL: Pollution in coastal socio-ecosystems (under construction)
- CIAN: International Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Natural Acoustics
Laboratories involved:
Main affiliation: COSMER, IM2NP, IMATH, LEAD, MAPIEM, MIO, LIS,
Secondary affiliation: BABEL, CDPC, CERC, CERGAM, CPT
Components involved:
- Faculty of Science and Technology
- SeaTech Engineering School
- University Institute of Technology (IUT)
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Economics and Management
- Faculty of Languages, Literature and the Humanities
- Institute of Business Administration (IAE)
