In recent years, "sober" land management has become a major issue in terms of public policies. Indeed, many testimonies from elected officials and planning stakeholders warn of the growing competition in the use of land: agriculture, infrastructure, built for housing, industry, commerce and offices, natural spaces... so many activities that must find their rightful place, respecting a certain balance, ensuring the preservation of soil quality and adapting as best as possible to the impacts of climate change and the collapse of biodiversity.
Therefore, the development stakeholders, in a difficult economic and budgetary context, are all subject to multiple injunctions that may seem contradictory: to know, preserve, or even reconstitute living soils, while maintaining the conditions of our national and local sovereignties (agricultural, food, energy, economic, industrial), and restoring our capacities to live with dignity in the territories. Therefore, how can we find a path that proposes to combine these issues?
Developments in the way we understand land
For several years, access saudi arabia phone number list to land has been designated as one of the evils responsible for the "housing crisis". The increase in its price and the problem of retention by sometimes speculative owners, justify new legislation and measures in favor of affordable housing, for example the creation of real solidarity leases (BRS)…. These debates are exacerbated by the provisions of the Climate and Resilience law [1] , which, by setting a target of zero net artificialization by 2050, are gradually establishing a greater scarcity of constructible land, reiterating the injunctions for urban renewal and therefore land recycling.
At the same time, land is gaining depth. After decades of surface-based approaches, soils are entering the debates, particularly as essential resources to be preserved. Soils are one of the challenges of adapting to climate change and combating the collapse of biodiversity. This transformation of the land approach is partly visible in the Climate and Resilience Act but also, at European level, by the new Pact for Healthy Soils [2] and a new directive for soil monitoring and resilience. The diversity of soils, their functions and therefore the ecosystem services they produce calls into question the values of land beyond a purely economic dimension, all the more so when we know the costs generated by their almost irreversible destruction.