Case study

Blue Beach Case Study of Valenton (Val de Marne, France), Fertile Soil Construction by Using Recycled Materials

Area characterisation:

Scale of the project: neighbourhood

Urban density in which the NbS is implemented: high (dense city center, etc.)

Objective:

Soil construction with wastes. 

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Urban Challenges:

1. Climate issues: Climate adaptation
2. Urban water management and quality: Urban water management and quality
4. Urban space and Biodiversity: Urban space management 
5. Urban Regeneration and Soil: Soil management
7. Public health and well-being: Quality of life, Health
8. Environmental justice and social cohesion: Social cohesion
11. Green economy: Circular economy, Direct economic value of NbS

Other Urban Challenges: 

This practice requires a new expertises, new jobs and should take into account (1) material recycling and (2) the new way of life: "building the city on the city".

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Blue beach park (2)

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Blue beach park (4)

Financing:

Global (estimated) cost of the project: Unknow

Financing mechanism: cluster1 public financing

Transferability of result:

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Process inhibitors:
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Expected time for the NbS to become fully effective after its implementation: short (immediately to few months)

Feedback: not conserned ??

Expected life time of the intervention: around 25 years

Dates (for project delivered): 2005

BUSINESS MODEL:
Business cluster: ...
Business model: ...

Client:

Val-de-Marne Department Concil (Contracting authority and project manager)

Design team:

  • Phytonseil Design Office (Assistance to the project manager : expertise and NbS technical solution propositions)

GOVERNANCE MODEL:
Governance cluster: cluster1 traditional public administration

Contacts:

Veronique , Lathiere (veronique.lathiere@valdemarne.fr)
Municipality or metropolitan service 
Conseil départemental du Val-de-Marne, Hôtel du département, 94054 Créteil cedex

NBS goals:

  • Enhancing sustainable urbanization
  • Developing climate change adaptation
  • Urban regeneration through nature-based solutions
  • Nature-based solutions for improving well-being in urban areas
  • Nature-based solutions for increasing the sustainable use of matter and energy
  • Nature-based solutions and the insurance value of ecosystems
  • Increasing carbon sequestration through nature-based solutions

NBS benefits:

  • Developing climate change adaptation; improving risk management and resilience
  • Increase infiltration / Water storage
  • Increasing infiltration
  • Reduce flood risk
  • Reduce run-off
  • Carbon sequestration and storage
  • Increase Biodiversity
  • Increase quality and quantity of green and blue infrastructures
  • Changing image of the urban environment
  • Improve water quality
  • Increase accessibility to green open spaces
  • Increase amount of green open spaces for residents
  • Increase social interaction
  • Increase well-being
  • Provision of health benefits
  • Social inclusion

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 develops a structural soil concept.

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