Soil quality assessment for spatial planning in urban and peri-urban areas - Provence Coal Field Case Study UQUALISOL-ZU

Objective:

The project aims at investigating whether and how a scientific knowledge on soil quality can be integrated into urban planning so as to allow soil quality to be taken into account in all its dimensions, which has not been the case so far in France.

Its objectives are:

The assessment of a legal concept of soil that would lead to integrate soils in preliminary studies and preserve economic and ecosystemic functions of soils, by choosing the best adapted uses in land use planning;
The production of a scientifically-sound SQI (soil quality index) including all soils and adapted to the needs of land planners;
To perform a knowledge transfer to urban planners so that soil quality is understood and taken into account.

Start/end date:

1 January 2018

Financing:

Global (estimated) cost of the project: 50k€ - 200k€ (Ademe and Ministry of Environment)

Financing mechanism: cluster1 public financing

BUSINESS MODEL:
Business cluster: Organizational
Business model: Develop scale-up solutions

Actions:

Refurbishment/ urban renewal

Transferability of result:

Scale of the project: city

Urban density in which the NbS is implemented: low (suburb at the limit with
rural areas, etc.)

Contacts:

Olivier , DAMAS (olivier.damas@plante-et-cite.fr)
Maison du Végétal (https://www.plante-et-cite.fr/)
26 Rue Jean Dixmeras, 49000 Angers

Stakeholder Participation/Participatory Planning and Governance:

Uqualisol Research Consortium, coordinator Samuel Robert (Aix-Marseille University)(Project owner and leader)

Main partners:

Prime contractor: Uqualisol Consortium
others: University of Turin, communes de Gardanne et Rousset (Bouches-du-Rhône), CRIGE PACA

GOVERNANCE MODEL:
Governance cluster: cluster5 network governance
Governance model: Collaborative governance

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Scale of the project: city

Urban density in which the NbS is implemented: low (suburb at the limit with
rural areas, etc.)

Expected time for the NbS to become fully effective after its implementation: large (beyond 5 years)

Feedback: Still well adapetd

Expected lifetime of the intervention: around 10 years

Dates (for project delivered): 2012

Further information:

Nature4Cities (https://www.nature4cities.eu/) aims to develop a knowledge diffusion around Nature-Based Solution (NbS) and a decision support platform through new collaborative models.

This project is part of the Nature4Cities's pioneer case studies database, it will feed the observatory, NbS pre-selection and replication tools, gathered into the Geocluster4NBS.

This project was chosen as a pioneer case study for the following reasons: the project uses original designs and technics encouraging the evolutoin of practicies.

Nature4Cities project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 730468.

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