By Colonel David BIÈVRE, Deputy Director of Real Estate and Housing (DGGN/DSF)

"The sociology of risk has invaded the fields of public health where the usual interpretive frameworks had become inoperative. Since the 1980s, this sociology has tried to provide answers to the issues and challenges posed by the advances of society. In this sense, the different schools of thought have noted the consequences of a disregard of expert knowledge on which public action is based. Public action must take advantage of this loss of influence in the scientific sphere, to escape from its dependence and regain a form of legitimacy within public interest. It is also at this price that science will recover its complete autonomy and its power of demonstration. (...)"

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