towards a just land transition

jeudi 27 novembre 2025
à 09:00
journées d'études de la Chaire Transition foncière

The next study day of the Land Transition Chair will be devoted to the social implications of soil preservation. It follows a previous day dedicated to the links between soil degradation (pollution, erosion, artificialization, etc.) and social vulnerability. If degraded soils crystallize multiple social, spatial and environmental inequalities, how can they be preserved as part of an environmental justice approach? Can soil protection practices and policies overcome, or even reverse, these unequal relationships? How can a fair and equitable land transition be envisaged?

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

9h : Welcome coffee

9:30 a.m.: Welcome words

• A representative of the Institut de la Transition Foncière, Jean Guiony, President of the Institut de la Transition Foncière
• Youssef Diab, co-director of the Land Transition Chair, university professor in urban planning, Lab'Urba, Université Gustave Eiffel
• Mathieu Delorme, co-director of the Land Transition Chair, urban and landscape planner, Director of Ensa Paris-Est

9:45 a.m.: Introduction: Environmental capital and social inequalities Frédéric Richard, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Paris-Est

• Frédéric Richard, lecturer in geography, University of Limoges

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SESSION 1: Degraded soils and social vulnerabilities

10:15 a.m.: Bauxite conflicts and politics in Guinea: mining soils, environmental inequalities and land justice Mody Diaw (Post-doctoral researcher, Guinea)

• Mody Diaw (Post-doctoral fellow, Sciences Po Bordeaux - Centre Emile Durkheim)

10:35 am: Questions from the audience

11am: Pause

SESSION 2: Conflicts of use around soil preservation policies and practices

11h20: Use conflicts and land tensions between tourism, urbanization, agriculture and pastoralism in mountain areas: examples from the Northern Alps Gisèle Vianey, Geographer, Associate Researcher UMR Citeres (Tours, France)

• Gisèle Vianey, Geographer, Associate Researcher UMR Citeres (University of Tours)

11h40: The fern that hides the forest: renaturation policy for degraded soils in the Lake District National Park Wallerand Bazin, Ph.

• Wallerand Bazin, Doctoral Candidate, School of Geography and the Environment, St Antony's College, University of Oxford

12h: Different geographies of inhabitant practices of urban soil renaturation Amélie Deschamps, maîtresse of the University of Paris, France

• Amélie Deschamps, Senior Lecturer in Geography, CY Cergy Paris Université, PLACES

12h20: Questions from the public

Lunch break

SESSION 3: How to reconcile land preservation policies with the fight against social and territorial inequalities? The example of ZAN

2:20 pm: Contested areas: exploring land-use conflicts in France

• Eulalie Saïsset, Doctoral student at Sciences Po and CIRED

14h40 : Territorial impacts of land sobriety policies and spatial inequalities Louise Phung, Doctoral student at CESP and CIRED

• Louise Phung, Doctoral student at CESAER, INRAE

15h : The ZAN objective put to the test of its territorialization Rémi Delattre, Ph.

• Rémi Delattre, PhD student at UMR ESPACE, Université d'Avignon

15h20: Questions from the audience

15h45 : Pause

SESSION 4: What tools and levers are needed to make land-saving and soil-preserving practices and policies acceptable?

16h: **Round-table discussion: Land transition in the service of social justice? Issues and levers

• Bastien Champion, Loans Director, Caisse des Dépôts Group

• Laurence Fortin L'Hour, Vice-President of the Brittany Region in charge of land strategy

• Félix Mailly, Head of Biodiversity, Fondation pour la Nature et l'Homme

• Christophe Najdovski, Deputy Mayor of Paris, in charge of the greening of public spaces, green areas, biodiversity and animal welfare.

• Moderator: Margot Holvoet, Managing Director, Institut de la Transition Foncière

5pm: Public questions

5:20 pm: Closing remarks

• Mathieu Delorme, ENSA Paris-Est
• Youssef Diab, EIVP
• Zoé Raimbault, Land Transition Chair

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