Nathalie Frascaria-LacosteProfessor

AgroParisTech - Université Paris Saclay

Nathalie Frascaria-Lacoste is Professor of Evolutionary Ecology and Ecological Engineering at AgroParisTech and Deputy Director of the Ecology, Systematics and Evolution Laboratory at Université Paris Saclay. She has been involved in the field of evolutionary genetics in forest trees for 15 years, and has gradually shifted the focus of her work to the field of ecological engineering and sustainable land management, with three main lines of research: the role of stakeholders in socio-ecosystems; environmental assessment in France and public policies for nature protection; decision-making and governance tools to reduce the effects of urbanization on biodiversity.

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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Scientific publications

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Laurent Devisme, Nathalie Frascaria-Lacoste, Roselyne de Lestrange Récits et narratifs d’un changement de paradigme

Territoria Naturalia. Aménager sans altérer, entre partage et réserve, MetisPresses, pp.221-224, 2026, 978-2-940711-77-2

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Cyrille Cobert, Ambroise de Montbel, Vincent Pupin, Armelle Mazé et al. Relations entre ruralité et biodiversité. Le succès de la patrimonialisation en commun de la plaine de Versailles pour une meilleure protection de sa biodiversité

Laure Cormier; Sabine Bognon. Territoria Naturalia. Aménager sans altérer, entre partage et réserve, MétisPresses, 2026, 9782940711772

Journal articles

Nathalie Frascaria-Lacoste, Pierre-Antoine Versini, Chloé Duffaut, Juan Fernández-Manjarrés La restauration socio-écologique, une transposition concrète du concept normatif des solutions fondées sur la nature

Comptes Rendus. Biologies, 2025, 348, pp.55-69. ⟨10.5802/crbiol.175⟩

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Julie Lombard Latune, Elsa T Berthet, Timothée Fouqueray, Véronique Souchère et al. Analysing the potential of serious games to raise new research questions on social-ecological systems, Les jeux sérieux ont-ils le potentiel de faire émerger de nouvelles questions de recherche sur les socio-écosystèmes ?

Natures Sciences Sociétés, 2024, 32 (2), pp.216 - 225. ⟨10.1051/nss/2024048⟩

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Pierre Pech, Amélie Lefébure, Laura Thuillier, Cedissia About et al. RENATU: a tool for assessing the ecological potential of an industrial or urban site for non-specialist users, RENATU : un outil d’évaluation du potentiel écologique d’un site industriel ou urbain pour des utilisateurs non spécialisés

Revue française de gestion industrielle, 2024, 38 (1), pp.35-56. ⟨10.53102/2024.38.01.1109⟩

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Cécile Blatrix, Raphaël Brett, Aude Farinetti, Nathalie Frascaria-Lacoste Avant-propos au numéro Hors Série L’évaluation environnementale face à l’impératif écologique

Revue juridique de l'environnement, 2023, Hors série, pp.7-10

Project

Environmental assessment and forward-looking scenarios: towards sustainable planning practices

Against a backdrop of declining biodiversity, it is necessary to consider the best strategies to incorporate ecological challenges into plans and projects. One possible avenue to achieve this is to encourage stakeholders

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Tool

Biodi(V)strict®

This diagnostic tool for the state of biodiversity in a neighbourhood compares the impact of different construction or rehabilitation projects on biodiversity in the city.

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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,

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