Numéro spécial "Loire : société, risque, aménagement" accessible sur Revues.orgThe Val nantais, a flood plain of the Loire river, was protected from the stream by a levee in the middle of the XIX century. Since this date, it has been drained by the farmers with the support of the local municipalities, up to become an important vegetables production area. The Val nantais lies 20 kilometres above Nantes City, and since the 1970s the urbanisation has been spreading out in the valley. The important increase of the human and economic vulnerability in case of inundation aims the question of the national policy application at the local scale.Le Val nantais, qui était une zone d'expansion des crues de la Loire, a été protégé par une digue au milieu...