Maylis Desrousseaux

Ecole d'urbanisme de Paris · Lab'urba

Summary In French law, the principle of ecological solidarity is intended to be implemented when a decision taken by a public authority would have a significant impact on the environment. That is, when the impact has not yet occurred. This interpretation immediately reduces its scope and suggests that it would only apply to areas that have not yet...

La protection des sols par le droit se heurte à différents obstacles, essentiellement de nature politique et plus faiblement de nature juridique. Ce constat est tiré de l’analyse du droit en vigueur et de l’échec de tentatives récentes de le faire évoluer. On peut citer, par exemple, l’abandon de la proposition de directive-cadre sur les sols en 20...

Le terme de « qualité » a une histoire en droit de l'environnement. Une histoire qui s'étend à l'air, à l'eau et en référence au bien-être humain, mais qui ne trouve pas de résonance en ce qui concerne les sols. Initialement anthropocentrée, la notion de qualité s'est en effet enrichie de critères écologiques, allant jusqu'à instituer de véritables...

Urban development is often confronted with a lack of available space. Brownfield sites offer great potential for sustainable urban planning because of their often-central location and the benefits associated with their redevelopment. Although the interest in brownfield regeneration has led to a lot of research on this topic, there is not yet a comp...

As a major reservoir of biodiversity, soils are essential for many ecosystem services such as food production, climate regulation, flood mitigation, water quality and air quality. Considered as one of the main factors in erosion of the biodiversity, land take describes the global reduction in the proportion of land allocated to farming and forestry...

Despite increasing scientific understanding of the global environmental crisis, we struggle to adopt the policies science suggests would be effective. One of the reasons for that is the lack of inclusive engagement and dialogue among a wide range of different actors. Furthermore, there is a lack of consideration of differences between languages, wo...

Leading societies toward a more sustainable, equitably shared, and environmentally just future requires elevating and strengthening conversations on the nonmaterial and perhaps unquantifiable values of nonhuman nature to humanity. Debates among conservationists relating to the appropriateness of valuing ecosystems in terms of their human utility ha...

Jointly commissioned by the ministries responsible for the environment (MTES) and agriculture (MAA) and the public agency for the environment and energy (ADEME), the IFSTTAR (French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Planning and Networks) and the INRA (National Institute of Agronomic Research) have carried out a collective scientif...

L’artificialisation des sols est une notion récente, répondant initialement à la préoccupation de quantifier les pertes de surfaces disponibles pour l’usage agricole par changements d’occupation des sols. Elle désigne aujourd’hui la diminution globale de la part des sols affectés aux activités agricoles et forestières ou aux espaces naturels, dépas...

Jointly commissioned by the ministries responsible for the environment (MTES) and agriculture (MAA) and the public agency for the environment and energy (ADEME), the IFSTTAR (French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Planning and Networks) and the INRA (National Institute of Agronomic Research) have carried out a collective scientif...

The French law on biodiversity was voted in August 2016 after 2 years of intense debates between the two chambers and the government. The result is quite positive for soils, even though this law has confirmed that soils are not about to benefit from a proper regime of protection. Among the evolutions brought out by this major law that came into for...

Time is a key element in soil degradation and it is unthinkable to consider that soils are a renewable resource on a human scale. Agriculture is a type of environmental artificialization and is legally defined as the “control and use of a plant or animal's biological cycle, constituting one or more stages necessary for the development of this cycle...

The south coastal area of Marseille (France), included in the Calanques National Park since 2012, is characterized by a rare and remarkable biodiversity, although the terrestrial and marine ecosystems have been impacted by past industrial activities. Indeed, 8 industrial sites and 12 factories were in activity in the Calanques until the beginning o...

L'artificialisation des sols est de plus en plus présente dans le débat public, où elle est dénoncée comme cause d'érosion de la biodiversité et de perte de terres agricoles. Cette notion renvoie pourtant à des phénomènes hétérogènes, qu'il importe de distinguer pour mieux les endiguer.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY When dominant or mainstream perceptions and concepts have an undesired impact on nature and its contributions to people, promoting alternative perceptions and concepts may transform practices towards more desired impacts (established but incomplete). Individual perceptions of the surrounding world are organized into concepts that...

Formidable réservoir de biodiversité, les sols sont essentiels à de nombreux services écosystémiques tels que la production alimentaire ou la régulation du climat, des crues, de la qualité de l’eau ou de l’air. Face à des demandes croissantes et antagonistes en logement, zones d’activités économiques, infrastructures, nourriture, matières premières...

The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is expected to publish an assessment on Land Degradation and Restoration in 2018. Human sciences are represented in this pioneer process, including the law. As soil is a fundamental element of land, we found interesting to demonstrate to what extent soils will be taken in...

Le projet de recherche interdisciplinaire SynTerCalM soutenu par A* Midex, constitue un bel exemple de mobilisation des compétences d’Aix-Marseille Université sur un thème particulièrement sensible, l’état de pollution des Calanques Marseillaises. Derrière une image quelque peu idyllique, l’un des joyaux de notre patrimoine naturel Phocéen est aujo...

On s’y baigne, on vient y déguster les poissons et les crustacés de la Méditerranée, on y pratique la randonnée, l’escalade, la plongée ou la plaisance et on aimerait parfois y posséder un cabanon pour pouvoir profiter pleinement de la douceur des nuits d’été : à n’en pas douter, les calanques font rêver... Au-delà de la carte postale, ce site a un...

Integrating agriculture in cities is not obvious from a legal point of view. On the contrary, cities are usually seen as the enemy of agriculture: they spread out, they fragment agricultural land and they jeopardize peri-urban agriculture. For good reason, a genuine legal arsenal is directed towards agriculture both in terms of its spatial dimensio...

Chapitre de l’ouvrage collectif Penser une démocratie alimentaire Volume II – Proposition Lascaux entre ressources naturelles et besoins fondamentaux, F. Collart Dutilleul et T. Bréger (dir), Inida, San José, 2014, pp. 169-175.