March 2025 has been a busy month for Marie-Laure Lambert, amU fellow on research leave 2024-2025. Coming up on March 25, 2025: a look back at the research into sobriety in the context of coastal adaptations.

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Copyright: Eléa Ropiot – Aix Marseille Université.

Maire-Laure Lambert’s research focuses on energy sobriety and slowing down the economy, aiming for an energy and social transition that now seems indispensable but remains a blind spot in legal research and public policy measures.

Linking coastal adaptation strategies with climate objectives: the quest for sobriety as a common denominator

She will be taking part in the conference on ‘Acting differently to facilitate the transition of coastal areas – cross-fertilisation between managers and researchers’ in Montpellier on March 25th and 26th, where she will be giving a talk entitled Feedback from research projects – Linking coastal adaptation strategies with climate objectives: the search for sobriety (energy, land and construction) as a common denominator.

Marie-Laure Lambert had already spoken twice at various events in March:

  • On 12 March, at the annual regional meetings of the PACA federation of local public enterprises (Entreprises publiques locales PACA) at the Palais des Papes in Avignon, as part of the round table discussion on ‘PACA’s LPEs at a time of ecological transition’.
  • On 14 March at the AVITEM seminar in Nice during the workshop ‘Spatial recomposition: a solution for adapting high-risk coastal areas’ in preparation for the United Nations Ocean Conference in June 2025.