Biodiversity
Public policy support – Biodiversity
Scientists and their partners talk about the research, expertise, training and joint management activities they carry out together to inform public policy to protect ordinary and remarkable biodiversity, the conditions for their balance and their sustainable use.
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Permanent public policy support systems
Within the research-expertise-public policy support continuum, permanent public policy support systems are dedicated to supporting public policies and have their own permanent resources. INRAE is involved in various ways in the research-expertise-public policy support continuum.
Find out more about the GEVES (Groupe d’Études et de Contrôle des Variétés Et des Semences)
Scientists talk about their public policy support activities
From expertise to awareness-raising: INRAE scientists support regional nature parks
“[…] The partnership with the Haute Vallée de Chevreuse NRP began in 2012 at the request of the ‘aquatic environments’…”
Céline Le Pichon
Research engineer in hydroecology, INRAE
From the dossier: Regional natural parks and INRAE, a partnership for regional transition – Open thematic
Read the testimonial: From expertise to awareness-raising: INRAE scientists support regional nature parksResearch at the heart of the Vercors NRP’s territorial action
“[…] Raising awareness among stakeholders includes a competition to reward and highlight best agroecological…”
Grégory Loucougaray
Research fellow, community ecologist at INRAE and member of two regional nature…
From the dossier: Regional natural parks and INRAE, a partnership for regional transition – Open thematic
Read the testimonial: Research at the heart of the Vercors NRP’s territorial actionMaintaining genetic diversity in forests
“[…] In particular, we are seeking to propose forest management systems that simultaneously guarantee timber production…”
Frédéric Gosselin
Engineer specialising in forest biodiversity and deputy head of the ECODIV department,…
From the dossier: Forest reproductive material: a challenge for tomorrow’s forests – Open thematic
Read the testimonial: Maintaining genetic diversity in forestsBee expert in the ANSES phyto-pharmaco-vigilance group
“[…] I wanted to make my research more concrete and get things moving, so I responded to the Anses call…”
Maryline Pioz
Animal health epidemiologist, INRAE
For the European Water Framework Directive: introducing a system to assess ecological status
“[…] Setting up a system for assessing the status of aquatic environments, based on biology, at a national level…”
Christine Argillier
Research Director, aquatic ecologist, INRAE
From the dossier: Science and the Water Framework Directive: 20 years of hydrobiology research for aquatic environments’ good ecological status – Open thematic
Read the testimonial: For the European Water Framework Directive: introducing a system to assess ecological statusOur partners talk about their collaboration with scientists
The Grand Est Chamber of Agriculture, a regional partner of GIS Sol
“The Chambers of Agriculture in Alsace and Lorraine have been involved since the 1990s in the Inventaire, Gestion et Conservation des Sols programme of the GIS Sol […]”.
Joëlle Sauter
Engineer in charge of the Soils and Fertility team at the Grand…
From the dossier: Info&Sols, a partnership-based system to understand and monitor soil in France – Open thematic
Read the testimonial: The Grand Est Chamber of Agriculture, a regional partner of GIS SolAnticipating water resources in overseas France
“The medium-term objective is to carry out an Explore2-type exercise in the French overseas territories.
Najib Mahfoudhi
Interministerial Coordinator of the Eau-DOM Plan, French Ministry of Ecological Transition and…
From the dossier: The Explore2 project, hydrological projections to adapt water resource management – Open thematic
Read the testimonial: Anticipating water resources in overseas FranceCollaboration between NRP and research: from agroecology to food
“On the research front, as CORP coordinator, my role is to set up a network of scientific councils and to bring together …
France Drugmant
"Agriculture and Food" Project Officer at the Federation of Regional Nature Parks…
From the dossier: Regional natural parks and INRAE, a partnership for regional transition – Open thematic
Read the testimonial: Collaboration between NRP and research: from agroecology to foodResearch to support the agroecological transition of NRPs
“[…] Scientists are interested in the Vercors, particularly for its Hauts-Plateaux national nature reserve …
Jean-Luc Langlois
"Agroecology" Project Officer at the Vercors Regional Nature Park
From the dossier: Regional natural parks and INRAE, a partnership for regional transition – Open thematic
Read the testimonial: Research to support the agroecological transition of NRPsScientific knowledge for the sustainable forest management office (MASA) and forest reproductive material
“I trained as an agronomist and have held a number of positions in various agricultural sectors at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and …
Élisabeth Van de Maele
French Ministry of Agriculture and Food
From the dossier: Forest reproductive material: a challenge for tomorrow’s forests – Open thematic
Read the testimonial: Scientific knowledge for the sustainable forest management office (MASA) and forest reproductive materialBiodiversity in our dossiers at the interface between science and public policy
Thematic dossier
The MIAME Research & Development Centre: science supporting diadromous fish management
Whether eels, salmon or lamprey, these diadromous fish spend some of their lives in the sea and the rest in freshwater. These species, which are highly …
Thematic dossier
The ECLA R&D Centre: Scientific support for lacustrine ecosystem management
The ECLA R&D Centre is now identifying new management needs, coordinating the scientific work required to meet them and making the results available to public stakeholders. This report reviews the major achievements and outputs of this collaboration.
Thematic dossier
Forest reproductive material: a challenge for tomorrow’s forests
Thanks to French public policies focused on reforestation through planting, France has increased its forest area by …
