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Soil management is now a major societal challenge.


It is helpful to recall that soil is an important environment that too often has been taken into account for its agronomic support only. Soil is the base of all land assets. It can be a vector of transport and of transfer of pollution. It is a protective environment for many sources of water supply (agricultural, urban, industrial uses). The list of various soil functionalities is long and insufficiently highlighted. For this reason, soil must be the object of every attention. In short, it’s one of our best allies.

While local pollution of soils is now the focus of attention from States or Regions that have specific legislation in this area, pollution caused by diffuse sources is still often poorly identified (atmospheric fallout, use of pesticides and fertilizers by agriculture, sewage sludge treatment plants, industrial activities ...). Pollution is not the only threat to soils – there is also erosion, compaction, waterproofing, loss of organic matter, biodiversity, etc. An integrated, multidisciplinary approach is needed for sustainable soil management.

Today, it is time to have a global European vision of soil functionalities because policies can differ from one Member State to another, or even, in some States, from one administrative region to another. Without undermining the principle of subsidiarity, Europe should nevertheless define a firmer position on the main objectives to be sought by the Member States in terms of soil management.

The policies envisaged must therefore be based on a methodology recognized by all, with codified technical bases. Interrelationship between the laws of the Member States of the European Union will lead inexorably to the definition of common guidelines.

Many difficulties must still be overcome in developing these bases; they are of various kinds:

  • Regulatory: definition of the framework of common instructions and obligations to be respected
  • Legal: determination of responsabilities in case of damage to soil as a resource
  • Technical: definition and evaluation of a soil quality and the functions and properties to be protected, characterization of a soil, determination of the technical treatment to be implemented, development of recycling techniques to fight against exhaustion of the resource
  • Health: Assessing interactions between the environment and human health to better protect populations
  • Economic: evaluation of the cost of the characterization actions needed for the diagnosis, evaluation of the cost of depollution actions, economic revalorization of a degraded land, rebuilding the city over the city
  • Communication: Convince the authorities and the general public that soil is one of the solutions to the great challenges of our time, and that it is a valuable ally to be cherished rather than ignored or worse, exploited or defiled. Give letters of nobility back to the soil.

2020 to 2030 is the decade when major decisions will be made on environmental issues for the next 50 years. Soil management is no exception to this rule. It is therefore urgent for all actors involved to mobilize in order to share their knowledge for the well being of all. More than ever, interdisciplinarity is necessary to renew the logic of approaches and capitalize on the knowledge of experts from different backgrounds who do not always have the opportunity to meet.


This is the invitation that has been made for the 23rd edition of Intersol, which will be held in Paris in March 2024, to deal with all the actors and stakeholders concerned with soils, crucial themes which are:
     

      ✧ The regulatory & legal levers or constraints
      ✧ 
The sustainable management of territories

      ✧ The technical solutions
      ✧
The sanitary aspects
      ✧
And following the success of this initiative set up during the previous edition, a special session dedicated to young researchers - in the course of
          their doctorate or young doctor, creators of innovation, start-ups, will be organized during the event.
          The work presented in the form of pitches will be linked to the 5 themes of the colloquium. Show us your innovative skills!

During 3 days, Intersol is a unique opportunity to meet all stakeholders concerned by these developments: you will share with them, while meeting a wide range of professionals listening to you.

So, respond to this call for applications because your feedback interests us!
 

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5 major themes 

 



1. Regulatory & legal levers or constraints

Key words:
French and European regulations, benchmark, taxation, ERC sequence, European Litigation and Jurisprudence Directive, thresholds, health risks, land, ZAN,
Climate and Resilience Law, communities, wasteland, town planning, town planning and planning documents, ENR and energy mix , planning - sustainable and circular
economic development of territories (SCoT, PLU/PLUi, OAP, PLH, PCAET, SRADDET, etc.), alternative uses, sustainable management of territories (taking into account
land,
economic, legal and ecological soils)


2. Sustainable management of territories
 
   
     2.1. What diagnostic tools are available?

       Key words:
Diagnosis, Quality indicators, ecology, biodiversity, natural areas, bioindicators, new uses, urban agriculture, renaturation, ENR, ISO 
       standard, repository, 
database, digitization, emerging pollutants, tools, risk studies, carbon footprint

       
2.2. From town planning to development: what are good practices?

       Key words:
Change of use, agricultural land, town planning documents (PLU, SCoT, PADD, OAP, etc.), REX, rehabilitation, monetization of services provided by
       the soil, 
economic assessment, promotion, planning, territorial strategy, public authorities, policies, etc. , ZAN, recovery and reuse, wasteland,
       land recycling, renaturation, management of
concentrated sources, containment, biodiversity, agronomic value, feedback from European experience


  
     2.3. Territorial planning and conversion of sites

      
Key words: Sustainable management of territories, the issue of land in the urban and peri-urban structure, conversion of urban spaces to peri-urban:
      from simple requalification to
multi-use, land, ZAN, communities, wasteland, urban planning, wetlands, urban planning and planning documents,
      renewable energy and energy mix, planning - sustainable and
circular economic development of territories (SCoT, PLU/PLUi, OAP, PLH, PCAET, SRADDET, etc.),
      alternative uses



3.
Technical solutions

Key words:
Technique, depollution, treatment, phytomanagement, monitoring, environmental balance, carbon impact, emerging pollutants, pesticides, degradation products, in situ treatments, depollution, proven and/or innovative techniques, characterization of health and environmental risks, European feedback, analyses, preliminary investigations and checks, digital tools: evaluation – simulation – modeling (limits and uses), characterization of the bioavailability of pollutants present in the soil, agronomic potential (including in urban areas) and source of biomass, soil infiltrability and regulation of water cycle, carbon reservoir, biodiversity reservoir, rehabilitation and refunctionalization of impacted or degraded soils, life in soils, carbon storage/measurement, biotic indices, bioindicators, biodiversity indices, soil biology, metagenomics


4. Sanitary aspects


Key words:
Do human health and soil health always go hand in hand? or are they sometimes opposed? Does taking into account emerging pollutants, endocrine disruptors, etc. include the notion of soil health? Eco-systemic services, functionalities, sustainable management of soils within companies: controls and monitoring, human needs, material and technical needs, necessary recruitments, expectations of the profession, European feedback. Ecotoxicology, risk studies, refunctionalization, biodiversity, bioavailability, data


5. Innovation: young researchers/creators/startups session

Key words:
Young innovative companies, environmental startups (<2 years), doctoral researcher, young doctor… + all the keywords mentioned above, depending on the theme chosen.

This special session will be an integral part of the program. The proposed topics must be related to one of the 4 themes detailed above. They will be presented at the choice of the speaker, in the form of a pitch or a conference.



Important!

Contributions will be selected based on:
✧ their ability to present feedback on one or several use cases
✧ highlighting their novelty or improvement in relation to existing knowledge
✧ the technical, economic, energy, environmental and social context
✧ the prospects considered and their justification

To be considered, your application must be sent necessarily with:
- Title of the presentation in French and in English
- A summary in French or in English

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