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English summaries: N° 91 - July 2018 - Land and soil jeopardized: Anthropic pressures (Issue editors: Dominique Dron and André-Jean Guérin)
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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