CEPEL

Adrien DUPRIELLE

Thesis Proposal

Rethinking Land Use Strategies Through Climate Change Adaptation Policies and the Spatial Reconfiguration of Coastal Areas: A Comparative Analysis of the Occitanie and Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d’Azur Regions.

Abstract: As the front lines of climate change, coastal regions are seeing their urban production systems gradually impacted. In response to this challenge, “the spatial restructuring of coastal regions” has been the primary guiding principle for government policy since 2019. Nevertheless, its actual scope is constrained by a dual context: the residential inertia characteristic of coastal regions, and the structural increase in land scarcity and high land prices. This thesis therefore aims to study the effects of the mandate to “reconfigure” 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 will be to analyze the adjustments made by the system of land actors regarding the development of these strategies, and their effects on territorial cooperation. The aim is to draw on the field of the sociology of public action to examine the resurgence of “remote” public land intervention.

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

Participation in research projects

  • “Trajectories, the Long Term, and the Gradual Nature of Public Action: Acceptability and Operationalization of Adaptation Trajectories in Coastal Regions,” APR Fondation de France, 2022–2025.
  • “Economic and Territorial Study of Public Procurement in Montreal,” Ivanhoé Cambridge Laboratory, University of Montreal, 2020.

Articles

Adrien Duprielle, Hélène Rey-Valette, Laura Michel, and Samuel Robert, 2025, “What Leverage Can Be Used to Facilitate Adaptation to Coastal Risks? The Case of the Occitanie Region,” vol. 16, no. 1, Sustainable Development and Territories.

Communications

  • Adrien Duprielle, Hélène Rey-Valette, Laura Michel, and Samuel Robert,“Drivers and barriers to placing coastal areas’ adaptation pathways 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, “Developing ‘adaptation pathways’ for coastal risks: lessons learned from a partnership-based and interdisciplinary approach in Occitanie (France),” ACFAS International Symposium, Perspectives on Adaptation to Coastal Natural Hazards: What Can We Learn from Interdisciplinary, Collaborative, and International Research?, May 16–17, 2024, University of Ottawa (Canada).
  • Adrien Duprielle, “Studying the ‘spatial restructuring of coastal regions’: A cross-disciplinary exploration of prescriptive expectations and academic challenges,” Conference: “How Do the Social Sciences Help Shape the Society of Tomorrow?”, November 17, 2023, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Montpellier.
  • Adrien Duprielle, “Rethinking Land Strategies Through the Spatial Reconfiguration 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 Use Researchers (RJCF), “The Materiality of Land and Its Interactions with the Environment,” January 27, 2023, Gustave Eiffel University, Lab’Urba.

Another project

Comic Book Workshop, Focus#6 Conference “Alternative Writing in the Social Sciences,” June 2025, Mucem, Marseille.

Courses

  • Introduction to Public Policy, Tutorial, Junior Year, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Montpellier, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Great Classics of Sociology, Seminar, Sophomore Year, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Montpellier, 2023
  • Western Political Systems 2, Seminar, Junior Year, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Montpellier, 2022