Ruf Thierry auteur aut IRD text journalArticle fre text/pdf born digital access For centuries, Mediterranean people have known of extreme weather events, severe droughts and destructive floods. After such events, the reconstruction is often available. The humans may overcome a flood if the society is organized to restore the hydraulic capital which was destroyed. A drought causes famine and migration and therefore, it has a more longer impact on the local society. We may understand these cycles of hazardous events, they mark the spirits and they produce adaptive policies to face a crisis. But other tensions also generate water crisis in the history of Mediterranean societies. First, we think to all those which were caused by the logic of colonial conquest, confrontation between political and military coalitions. Then there are those coming with the exercise of absolute power after independence. And now, there are those which are induced by the globalization of the economy. We will show in different local examples in South and North that these impacts are very significant and they combine with local dynamics, which sometimes are amplifying a general phenomena: Integrated grab of local resources, land, water, labor and public aid. specialized water climatic change resilience conflict cycle ZONE MEDITERRANEENNE 098 062 021 4 25-31 2016 0018-6368 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010068682 10.1051/lhb/2016036 0018-6368 [F B010068682] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010068682 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2016/12/010068682.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2017-01-09 2017-02-10 fdi:010068682 fre