Created in 2008(1), the Centre for research on Risks and Crises (CRC) is an interdisciplinary laboratory(2), forming part of both MINES ParisTech and ARMINES. Franck Guarnieri is the Director. CRC forms part of the Department of Economics, Management and Society (EMS) along with research centres dedicated to Sociology, Management and Industrial Economics. The CRC also plays a key role in the management of the EMS department at the CARNOT MINES Institute, which consists of the Ecole des Mines from Albi, Alès, Nantes, Paris, Saint Etienne and the Ecole Polytechnique. Since 2003 it has coordinated the "Risks" group of Ecoles des Mines (GEM), consisting of the Albi, Alès, Saint Etienne, Nancy, Paris and Saint Etienne schools.
CRC research lies at the crossroads between human, social and engineering sciences. Our work, which is shaped by both modelling and engineering, aims to formalise and unify knowledge in order to enable individuals, organisations (in particular businesses) and administrations to reduce their vulnerability and increase their resilience when faced with particularly disturbing or damaging events (major technical disasters, occupational accidents and illnesses, natural and environmental hazards, malicious acts, terrorism, project-related risk, operational risk, etc.).
With this in mind, the CRC links and integrates the following disciplines: law, ergonomics, geography, management, the history of science and technology, psychology, cognitive science, sociology, engineering sciences, etc.
(1) The CRC emerged from the Pôle Cindyniques, created in 1998 by research managers at MINES ParisTech in order to link research and training in the domain of risk prevention.
(2) The definition of interdisciplinarity is taken from the AERES definition of February 2013. "Interdisciplinarity is cooperation between many disciplines working on joint projects. These projects open up new avenues for research for each discipline, which are not restricted, for the most part, to actual applications. Joint projects bring together data, methods, tools, theories and concepts from different disciplines and lead to an overall result in which the role of the various disciplines goes far beyond a simple juxtaposition. Among the distinguishing features of this integration, the following are particularly notable:
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