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Soil restoration and de-artificialization are generating considerable interest among many stakeholders as a way to address biodiversity and climate challenges. However, an approach focused solely on soil productivity restauration risks neglecting the biodiversity already established on these brownfield sites and degraded areas. This article presents a frugal approach to soil restoration that relies on existing and potential species—adapted to atypical environments—spontaneous dynamics, soil maintenance, and adaptation to local constraints. Examples from the Nord and Pas-de-Calais territory demonstrate the value of utilizing spoil heaps, quarries, and sand pits rather than resorting to "all-out afforestation".
The parties that may be involved in the operation of a facility classified for environmental protection (ICPE) may be internal or external to your facility. The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide you with an overview of these stakeholders and their level of involvement.
The public’s right to be informed and to participate in environmental decision-making is reflected, in the context of ICPEs, by the establishment of commissions and a secretariat, whose representatives may largely overlap (federal agencies, local governments, associations, etc.). While the work of the Departmental Councils for the Environment and Health and Technological Risks (CODERST) remains independent of that of the Site Monitoring Commissions (CSS) and the Commissions for the Prevention of Pollution and Industrial Risks (SPPPI or S3PI), the activities of the latter two may, on the contrary, be closely linked. It is important to: distinguish between them by identifying their missions and powers; understand the relationship between the CSS and the SPPPI or S3PI.
CODERST is a departmental administrative body whose mission is to assist the departmental prefect (the police prefect in Paris) on matters related to public policy in the areas of environmental protection, sustainable management of natural resources, and the prevention of health and technological risks. As such, it is responsible for issuing an opinion on draft prefectural decrees concerning ICPEs, for example during the procedure for opening classified facilities for environmental protection (ICPE) subject to registration (E), authorization (A), or authorization with conditions (AS). It is therefore important to understand how it operates and what its role is.
To understand the classification system for facilities, activities, structures, or projects subject to regulations governing classified facilities for environmental protection (ICPE), you need to be familiar with the underlying concepts. The purpose of this fact sheet is therefore to define the key terms related to this specific area of environmental law and, for each term, to provide examples that will help you better understand these concepts and place them within their regulatory context.
The purpose of this report is to provide an initial overview of constructive approaches to the challenges posed by incorporating sustainable development into the built environment. How can we ensure a contribution to sustainable development?If the concept of sustainable development is taken in its most immediate sense, then it must be acknowledged that any action undertaken from this perspective must first and foremost be resource-efficient. The prudent use of available resources is, in fact, a guarantee of “responsibility” toward future decision-making capacity.
Industrialists must demonstrate to prefectural authorities, via danger studies, that they are able to assess and manage the risks associated with their activity. Changes in regulation induced by the 2003 law “risk” have homogenized risk analysis methods. In theory, the regulation does not impose a single method and each industrialist is free to use, as long as the relevance can be proven, the method of their choice. In practice, however, certain methods are imposed or strongly recommended by authorities. In summary, the mastery of the danger study approach is strongly recommended, failing which the dossier could be rejected.
It should be borne in mind that water, this liquid which is so familiar, has extremely specific characteristics which are above all essential to the survival of man. Although of an unremarkable appearance, it is also the most complex fluid. After presenting a brief historical overview of human knowledge on the composition and structure of the water molecule, this article reviews its different states - solid, liquid, gaseous - and the different ways in which the molecules are organized according to these various states. It then details the physical properties - mass density, density, surface tension, thermal and electrical properties - as well as the physicochemical and biological properties of water.
Demographic and land pressures in (peri)urban areas as well as the zero net artificialization law in France, encourage the remediation of polluted soils. Phytotechnologies, which reduce, at a moderate cost, environmental and health risks and promote the refunctionalization of degraded soils, have thus developed over the last twenty years. However, monitoring of the treated site over time, the establishment of contaminated plant management channels and scientific mediation with populations are required. Phytoextraction, phytostabilization and phytovolatilization applied to soils polluted by persistent metals are approached in a transversal manner: scientific research, regulation and applications.
This article discusses the development of corporate environmental civil liability, whose is a corporate’s obligation to repair ecological damage. It shows the conditions under which this liability can be engaged. Currently this is essentially present in national law. This is an administrative police in European Union law. International law is still quite timid for the time being. Recognition of the due diligence makes it possible to envisage an increase in the corporate's environmental civil liability at all levels. A civil liability is emerging in the context of climate change.
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