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Hydrosystem functioning  

 


Understanding and modelling interactions between agricultural drainage ditches, catchments and wetlands
Hydro-ecoregions—a natural framework for water management

Micropollutant bioavailability and toxicity
When history enhances flood prevention
An international hydrology project: FRIEND
How the risk of flooding can be managed better by taking into account socio-economic aspects

Habitat conditions and trout population dynamics

Efficiency of wastewater treatment, and quality of river water
Managing populations of migratory fish
Earth observation for flood control: NOAH European project

Diatoms as water quality indicators: collaboration with Catchment Authorities

Role of buffer zones and ditches in combating phytosanitary pollution of surface waters

Simulating the dynamics of a shad population

Modelling sediment transport in rivers

Physics helps predict the environmental impacts of river development
The invasion of the Ludwigia peploides 

Water and waste disposal engineering and management

 


Combined use of conceptual models and the Monte Carlo method for avalanche simulation
Modelling aeration processes in wastewater treatment plants
A robust control for regulated river systems
Optimising oxygen transfer in wastewater treatment plants
Measuring the ageing of sealing systems in hazardous waste landfills

Optimum management of drinking water networks

Evaluating the performance of local public water services

Irrigation, a high-performance technique that can be used more efficiently

A field laboratory for studying erosion and solid transport: the Draix BVRE

Building model expressing how snow is transported by wind
Pollution-free manure processing
Influence of surfactants on oxygen transfer in waste water

Modelling pipe renewal in partnership with system operators

Improving water management policies, a major world issue

Partnership with consulting engineers on numerical simulation of rockfill dams

Electronic memory of risks in mountain areas

Mapping embankment condition for better flood control

Software to improve domestic water supply

Better water sharing in irrigated river catchment

Management of predominantly rural areas

 


Management of mountain pasture ecosystems—striking a balance between ecology and agriculture
3D modelling of rockfalls to enhance the sustainability of mountain forest management
Alternative use of farmland with quick-growing trees
Landscapes and poplars

Anchoring firms spatially in the rural environment: from the functional space to the territorial space

Diagnosing and foreseeing changes in the herbage of mountain dairy pastures

Evaluation of mountain policy

Evaluating and mapping the risk of forest fire in the Maures massif

The public-interest group ECOFOR

Satellite imaging helps reconcile agriculture and environment in Charente catchment

Ecotones as indicators of agricultural abandonment:Vanoise nature reserve

International conservation effort on elm genetic diversity

Public policy and the countryside: goals and initial results

Modelling Alpine forest dynamics

A complete model of growth and branching of European black pine

 

Agricultural and food engineering

 


Ice slurry refrigeration
Sludge assessed like concrete
Safer agricultural machinery in compliance with European standards
Developing a modulated fertilising system

New refrigeration technologies

Building a model of the flows and the transfers in the cold chain

Automating the measurement of sugar content in fruit using a non-destructive method

NMR relaxometry and foodstuffs

Mechanising gherkin harvesting

European partnership for non-polluting weeding prototype

Magnetic resonance in the cheese industry

Feedback on operational expert system in tractor test bed

Satellites that drive tractors...

Close protection for food packaging

Organizing data in an information system: The need for traceability

 

Common scientific methods

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An economic and geographical model for agricultural activity location
Rational agriculture and farm management 
"Incubation" of the Geographical Information Department of MAAPAR 
Combining spatial and temporal information to predict avalanche hazards

X-NT platform, universal surface water management program
Model Ling combats health risk in French beef production
From expert evaluation to research: The 1999 mudslides in Venezuela
From theoretical model to practical software application:
Better flood forecasting

A "Green Sticker" for agricultural sprayers

Towards coherent integration of the environment in public policies : the Collective Services Schema for Natural and Rural Areas (SSCENR)

Joint expert evaluation following the damage to forests caused by the storms of December 1999


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