N° 91 - July 2018 - Land and soil jeopardized: Anthropic pressures
Issue editors: Dominique Dron and André-Jean Guérin,
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Foreword: The soil: preserving the grounds of life for the coming centuries!
Dominique Dron,
engineer from the Corps des Mines
and
André-Jean Guérin,
engineer from the Corps des Ponts, des Eaux et des Forêts
1 ‒ Land and soil degradation: the stakes and issues
Soil, the Earth’s critical zone
Christian Valentin,
Institute of Research for Development (IRD), iEES-Paris, Academy of Agriculture
Soil fertility: Quality through life
Luc Abbadie,
professor at Sorbonne University
The state of the soil in France: “Artificial” land uses and others sources of degradation
Véronique Antoni
in charge of the project “Soil and natural risks”, Ministry of the Environmental Transition and Solidarity, Commissariat Général du Développement Durable, Service de la Donnée et des Études Statistiques (MTES/CGDD/SDES)
and
Marlène Kraszewski
in charge of studies on sustainable development (MTES/CGDD/SDES)
The soil, a factor attenuating, or exacerbating, climate change
Suzanne Lutfalla,
PSL Research University, CNRS-ENS UMR 8538, Paris
Lauric Cécillon,
Grenoble Alps University, IRSTEA, Saint-Martin-d’Hères
and
Pierre Barré,
laboratory of geology, PERSONNEL Research University, CNRS-ENS UMR 8538
The land’s legal status pertaining to human uses: An inventory and prospects
Philippe Billet,
agrégé professor of public law at Jean-Moulin University (Lyon 3), director of the Institute of Environmental Law (CNRS, UMR 5600, EVS-IDE) and member of Labex IMU (Intelligence des Mondes Urbains)
2 - Official responses
Orientations and tools for managing “land consumption” on the national scale
Laetitia Conreaux-Mantziaras,
architect and urban planner, head of the bureau on urban and rural planning and quality of life, Direction de l’Habitat, de l’Urbanisme et des Paysages, Ministry of Territorial Cohesion
and
Hélène Faucher,
head of a project on urban and rural planning, Direction Générale de l’Aménagement, du Logement et de la Nature (DGALN), Ministry of Territorial Cohesion
Industrial wastelands, a new secondary resource?
Philippe Merle
and
Jean-Luc Perrin,
Direction Générale de la Prévention des Risques, ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire
Boosting the reuse of business wastelands
Michel Valdiguié
and
Philippe Schmit,
Commission Nationale d’Aménagement Commercial
Can tax policies help limit “land artificialization”?
Guillaume Sainteny,
GS Conseil
Opinion of the CESE of 13 May 2015: The management of farmlands, a societal issue
Cécile Claveirole,
member of the Conseil Économique, Social et Environnemental (CESE) and head of the agriculture network of France Nature Environnement
Recovering degraded land in arid zones
Monique Barbut,
executive secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
3 - Local or private actions
The “consumption” of natural areas in Île-de-France: The assessment, issues and the tools
Martin Omhovère,
head of the Département Habitat et Société at the Institut d’Aménagement et d’Urbanisme d’Île-de-France;
and
Martin Wolf, expert on local finances at the Institut d’Aménagement et d’Urbanisme d’Île-de-France
Conserving the land, stimulating farming: Thirty years of urban and rural planning in Bouches-du-Rhône
Marc Beauchain,
former head of the departmental services: Direction de l’Agriculture et de la Forêt, then of the Direction des Territoires et de la Mer 13
What governance for the relations of a city with its hinterland?
Fabienne Trolard,
INRA
and
Guilhem Bourrié,
AAF
Curbing urban sprawl: (im)possible?
Christian Garnier,
engineer ECP, head if the network Villes et Territoires Soutenables of France Nature Environnement
After remediation, the challenges of land restoration and soil improvement
Corinne Leyval,
research director, CNRS
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