%0 Book Section %T Extreme Event and History: for a better consideration of natural hazards %+ Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE) %A Garnier, Emmanuel %Z EDF %@ 978-3-030-74941-5 %B Statistical Extreme Value Theory with Applications to Natural Hazard Engineering %I Springer %8 2021 %D 2021 %K History %K climate %K extreme event %K vulnerability %Z Humanities and Social Sciences %Z Environmental Sciences %Z Sciences of the Universe [physics]Book sections %X This chapter aims to remind us of the fundamental importance, for our modern but fragile societies, of the difficult study of historical data on natural hazards. Forgetting is a regular feature of our decisions, and the preservation of the memory of natural disasters depends heavily on our ability to quantify their effects. The author, a climate historian, recalls here some fundamental aspects of this discipline and its necessary connection to statistical approaches to risk analysis. %G English %Z Convention EDF-CNRS %L hal-03504680 %U https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-03504680 %~ SHS %~ SDE %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-FCOMTE %~ CHRONO-ENVIRONNEMENT %~ GIP-BE %~ TEST-HALCNRS