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About 27 % of French mainland coastline is eroding. These areas became increasingly vulnerable in recent years. With a growing population living less than 25 kilometres from sea shores in France and all over the world new challenges are looming. Not only erosion and receding coastlines but also major societal issues. There are three types of coastal environments in France: estuaries, cliffs and sandy beaches. As they have extremely different morphologies, the processes causing changes and…

Pierre-Olivier Dittmar, historien de formation, est ingénieur d'études à l'EHESS au sein du laboratoire "Groupement d'anthropologie historique de l'occident médiéval" (GAHOM). Dans ses recherches, il utilise les méthodes et outils de l'anthropologie et s'intéresse particulièrement à la façon dont évoluent les cultures. En se fondant sur un problème ou une question d'aujourd'hui, il essaie de comprendre les réponses propres au Moyen Age. Il étudie ainsi les relations entre hommes et…

Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk is a text historian and director of studies at the Ecole pratique des hautes études and she heads the library history research team at the CNRS institute for text research and history (Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes). Her research is about the transmission of texts and their copying and annotation processes and she investigates their traces (in lists and references) in ancient book collections, especially of the Middle Ages. She provides feedback…