International audienceBéni Mellal is a city of piedmont evolving in an environment dominated by the imbalance between a marginalized mountain and a transformed plain, a consequence of an agricultural modernization under the colonization. The demographic evolution of the city is the result of an increasing imbalance between a mountain which offers no more opportunities to live of agriculture and a very dynamic and attractive plain.The spectacular concomitant growth of this city creates a challenge in order to protect the identity of the Piedmont landscapes but also especially in order to manage the hydrological risks which are a recurring phenomenon as well as the new risks as the collapses. Their management requires a global approach of the...