Artificialized land and land take

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Soil artificialization is a recent concept, initially responding to the
concern to quantify the loss of land available for agricultural use through
changes in land use. Today, it refers to the overall reduction in the
proportion of land devoted to agricultural and forestry activities or to
natural areas, thus going beyond the strictly agricultural dimension.

Land artificialization and land that has already been "artificialized" have
become, particularly in France, a major issue of public debate and political
concerns. Land artificialization is thus seen as one of the main factors in
the erosion of biodiversity, which explains why, since 2015, the rate of land
artificialization is one of the 10 "Wealth Indicators" developed by the
Government to monitor its public policies.In this context, the French Ministry
of Ecology, the French Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME) and the French
Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood, and Forestry wanted to have access to
scientific knowledge that would enable them to better identify the economic
and social determinants of soil artificialization, its impacts on the
environment and on agriculture, and the levers for action likely to limit its
development and negative effects. They entrusted IFSTTAR (now université
Gustave Eiffel) and INRA (now INRAE) with the task of carrying out this
collective scientific expertise. The main conclusions are presented in this
book first published in French in 2019.



The French version of this book, Sols artificialisés, is available on our
website.

La version française de ce titre, Sols artificialisés, est disponible sur
notre site.