7 April 2026 | 15:00 - 16:00
Dr. Isabelle Cousin (Research Director, Deputy Director of the Info & Sols Research Unit, INRAE, France) will give this seminar, organized by the ELI-E department.
The French study “Soil Quality: towards an indicator system for public policy”, conducted from 2022 to November 2024 aimed at defining soil functions, soil quality, soil health, and their associated indicators.
The study considered all soil uses for different stakeholders, and proposed a framework to facilitate the co-construction of definitions and indicators, useful for different study cases, to deal with land-use changes.
In this presentation, we will focus on the definitions, the way to choose indicators, their reference values (existence values, threshold and target values), as well as their operationality.