Practitioner group

Nature in the city

The benefits and costs related to green infrastructure in cities need to be better understood through assessment tools that measure environmental impacts, for example, carbon emissions due to the transport of substrates, and the services provided, such as temperature regulation.

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Members

Cécile Cren

Environmental Policy Officer

VINCI

Lionel D'Allard

Director of Equo Vivo

VINCI Construction Terrassement

Lorène Dumeaux

Environment Manager

Eurovia

David Ernest

Director of Development and Innovation

VINCI Facilities

Clément Jacquemard

Director of Operational and Technical Resources

VINCI Construction France

Armelle Langlois

Director of the Sustainable Performance Division

VINCI Construction France

Florence Marin-Poillot

Director of Innovation Environment & Quality

VINCI Construction France

Florian Merique

Branch Director

VINCI Construction France - Direction déléguée Centre-Est

Paola Mugnier

Director

Urbalia

Bertrand Thuillier

Head of Environment and Life Sciences Department

VINCI Construction France - Île-de-France Operational Department for Housing Building

Researchers

Christine Aubry

Senior Associate Researcher and Consultant Professor

AgroParisTech
Inrae

Erica Dorr

PhD Student

AgroParisTech

Sonia Le Mentec

PhD Student

AgroParisTech

Erwan Personne

Senior Lecturer

AgroParisTech
SIAFEE

Jean Roger-Estrade

Professor

AgroParisTech
Inrae

Patrick Stella

Senior Lecturer and Researcher

AgroParisTech

Projects

Development of a sustainability self-assessment tool for urban agriculture stakeholders

A simplified life-cycle assessment tool will allow decision makers to assess the sustainability of urban agriculture projects and guide the design and management of these projects.

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Contribution of urban revegetation to urban heat island mitigation

A thesis project to understand to what extent the revegetation of the urban environment helps regulate the urban microclimate and contributes to the improvement of air quality.

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Biodiversity

Reconciling nature and the city, a highly artificial environment, is an art that is practised from the scale of the building to that of the suburban territory, including that of the neighbourhood.

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Pilot site

Vegetable garden on the rooftop of AgroParisTech

Vegetable rooftop at AgroParisTech

AgroParisTech's experimental rooftop has been used since 2012 to design urban agriculture systems in rooftop boxes, using urban residues as components of technosols, with the aim of studying the services provided by

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Urban farmers in a vegetable garden on a rooftop

Editorial: why a practical guide to rooftop vegetable gardens?

A greenhouse on a rooftop at BIGH Farms in Brussels

The 6 essentials of urban agriculture on rooftops

Cover of the guide Urban Agriculture by Provent and Mugnier

The first guide from the lab recherche environnement on rooftop urban agriculture

Rooftop vegetable garden at North Brooklyn Farm

Urban agriculture, a globalised phenomenon

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