CEPEL

Adrien DUPRIELLE

Thesis Project

Rethinking land use strategies through climate change adaptation policies and the spatial restructuring of coastal areas. A comparative analysis of the Occitanie and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions.

Abstract: On the front line of climate change, coastal areas are gradually seeing their urban production systems impacted. Faced with this problem, "the spatial restructuring of coastal areas" has been the main doctrine of state public action since 2019. However, its effective scope is hampered by two factors: the residential inertia characteristic of coastal areas and the structural increase in land scarcity and high land prices. This thesis therefore proposes to study the effects of the call for "reconfiguration" on the modes of production of coastal land strategies. Based on a comparison of the Occitanie and Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d'Azur regions, the aim is to analyze the readjustments made by the system of land actors on the development of these strategies and their effects in terms of territorial cooperation. The field of sociology of public action will be mobilized to examine the return of "remote" public land intervention.

Keywords: Land policies – Coastal territories – Spatial restructuring – Sociology of public action

Participation in research projects

  • "Trajectories, long-term planning, and gradual public action: acceptability and operationalization of adaptation trajectories for coastal areas," APR Fondation de France, 2022-2025.
  • "Economic and Territorial Study of Montreal Public Procurement," Ivanhoé Cambridge Laboratory, University of Montreal, 2020.

Articles

Adrien Duprielle, Hélène Rey-Valette, Laura Michel, and Samuel Robert, 2025, "What levers can be used to adapt to coastal risks? The example of the Occitanie region," vol. 16, no. 1, Sustainable Development and Territories.

Communications

  • Adrien Duprielle, Hélène Rey-Valette, Laura Michel, and Samuel Robert, "Levers and barriers to putting the adaptation pathways of coastal areas to climate change on the political agenda. The example of the Occitanie region," Workshop "Urban Coastal Areas Facing Climate Change Risks: Barriers and Opportunities for Agenda Setting," June 16, 2025, Sciences Po, LIEPP, Paris.
  • Adrien Duprielle, Hélène Rey-Valette, Laura Michel, and Samuel Robert, "Building 'adaptation trajectories' for coastal risks: feedback from a partnership-based, interdisciplinary approach in Occitanie (France)," ACFAS International Conference, Different perspectives on adaptation to natural coastal risks: what can we learn from interdisciplinary, partnership-based and international research?, May 16-17, 2024, University of Ottawa (Canada).
  • Adrien Duprielle, "Studying the 'spatial restructuring of coastal areas': a cross-disciplinary reflection on prescriptive expectations and academic challenges," Symposium on How Social Sciences Can Help Build Tomorrow's Society, November 17, 2023, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, University of Montpellier.
  • Adrien Duprielle, "Rethinking land strategies through the spatial restructuring of coastal areas and climate change adaptation policies. A comparative study of the Occitanie and PACA regions," 17th Study Day of the Network of Young Land Researchers (RJCF), "The materiality of land and interactions with its environment," January 27, 2023, Gustave Eiffel University, Lab'Urba.

Other project

Comic book workshop, Focus#6 exhibition "Alternative Writing in Social Sciences," June 2025, Mucem, Marseille.

Lessons

  • Introduction to Public Policy, Tutorial, L3, Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Great Classics of Sociology, Tutorial, L2, Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, 2023
  • Western Political Systems 2, Tutorial, L3, Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, 2022