Ageng 2010
On behalf of the European Society of Agricultural Engineers, EurAgEng and of the French Society of Engineers and Technicians in Mechanization and Agricultural Engineering, SitmAFGR, Cemagref organize the International Conference on Agricultural Engineering AgEng 2010 CF that will be held in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on September 6-8, 2010.
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New general director for Cemagref
Roger Genet was appointed general director of Cemagref by presidential decree on 16 February 2009 (published in the Official Journal on 18 February 2009). He replaces Pascal Viné. Through his long experience at both CEA (Atomic-energy research institute) and as a ministerial advisor at the Research ministry, Roger Genet is a researcher fully engaged in public research and innovation policies.

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Cemagref 2020 strategic plan
In a context of major change in environmental and agricultural issues, in public decision-making processes, in the relations between public research and the economic sector, as well in the organisation of research and higher education in France and in Europe, Cemagref, a public scientific and technical institute, decided to plan its future activities over the coming 12-year period.

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  Decision-making tools for accidental pollution management of rivers: toward sustainable solutions

  Small dam removal: a tool for landscape and ecological river restoration? Focus on social issues – French case studies – Sèvre nantaise, Thouet (west of France)

  How emerging trees can be used for a passive restoration of the stream banks at Vallée-Aux-Berges (Normandy, France)

  Herbaceous vegetation restoration of urban sandy areas – Assessment of urban greenspaces management

  Experience feedback of mitigations mesures and environmental accompaniing works about Port 2000

  What kind of surveys for follow-up and evaluation of ecological restoration operation ? Example of the Quiberon's « Côte Sauvage »

  Measurements of suspended load in the Durance river over 150 years (1857-2007): links with the operations of ecological restoration at the scale of the catchment and the river

  Bioengineering techniques for erosion control in rivers: age old techniques in constant progress

  Evaluating species response to erosive perturbations: implication for the ecological restoration of eroded lands

  TLALOC: a spatio-temporal model of vegetation dynamics related to erosive and sedimentologic dynamics in marly gullies

  Erosion and landscape in Mediterranean mountains – Learning of a comparison from Southern France and Spanish Catalonia study cases and literature

  Do the sustainable development territorial strategies help for designing ecological engineering projects? Some cases study in the French South Alps

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  Dynamic flood retention: time for new dynamics

  Dynamic Flood Retention: principle and guidelines

  Some errors to avoid in future hydrological studies

  Dams with open outlets for flood control: some lessons to be learnt since 1905
  Two case studies of floods caused by overland flow: which lessons learn in expectation of a better prevention?
  The Erstein “polder”: objectives, management and feedback of five years of functioning and environmental monitoring (Rhine River, France)
  Piping flow erosion in dike: quantifying the failure time

  Sensitivity analysis of a cost-benefit analysis. Lessons for the valuation of food alleviation projects
  Dynamic flood retention and risk sharing – On the implementation of local compensation schemes
  Communicating on floods: propositions for using an interactive educational small-scale model
  Literature review – An overview of the state of research on flood prevention

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  Economic theory inputs to address the WFD exemption challenges
  Construction of a simplified hydrographic network (RHE) from the DB Carthage^® Database
  Sensitivity of flood loss evaluation to the method used to assess buildings vulnerability
  Reducing point-source pesticides pollution from agriculture – First analysis of a stakeholder survey in Europe
  Towards a tool to design vegetated strips for mitigation of pesticides transfers in surface runoff. Assessment of different scenarii
  Aquatic biofilms: to what extent can they be used to assess pesticide effects on lotic ecosystems functioning? Example in a vineyard area
  Considering the role of the cultural development in the renegotiation of social bonds: the “golden prison” of farmers in the South Dordogne (France)

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  Physical consistency: a useful tool for sludge characterization to the implementation of European standards
  Sewage sludge characterization: new improvements to optimize treatments
  Sludge liming: blend quality and impact on mechanical properties
   Sludge drying reed beds: recall of technical key points
   Reuse of treated sludge from reed beds, first experience feedbacks of emptying and land spreading for some French wastewater treatment plants
  Agronomical use of sewage sludge from Urban Waste Water Treatment: heavy metals in Zea mays plants
  Agricultural use of sewage sludge: impact on crop productivity and MTE transfer
   Life Cycle Assessment applied to sewage sludge treatment: state of the art, knowledge and environmental impacts assessment

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This special issue deals with a state of knowledge in France concerning biology and ecology of aquatic macrophytes (i.e. lichens, macro-algae, bryophytes, pteridophytes, phanerogams). It explains scientific advances on current taxonomic tools and methods for identification of phytocenoses and their ecophysiological specificities. Macrophytes are studied in relation with the environmental conditions in which they grow, and according to their roles in the physical habitat and their interactions with the entire aquatic fauna.

The issues of the scientific research on the macrophytes are threefold. First, it enlightens the local stakeholders on the indicators of watercourses state (e.g. trophy). Besides to study and to understand macrophytes bring some answers regarding the issue of the proliferating, indigenous or exotic species which they have a specific biology and ecology. Finally this research questions on the management and conservation methods of rare species.
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This book has been jointly produced by several French research organisations for the international Year of Planet Earth. Vivid, concise writing and more than 300 photographs taken by the researchers themselves offer magnificent-and disturbing-panorama of our planet at the beginning of the 21st century, in all the splendour, diversity and vulnerability of its landscapes and rock formations, its oceans, climate and natural phenomena, its plants and animal kingdoms and the activities of its human societies.
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After a succinct presentation of lake ecology, the ecological demands of some 27 species are set out, with their reproduction strategies, data on growth and population structure. This is followed by a description of how population composition evolves, depending on the degree of eutrophication of the environment. The various aspects of managing and conserving these populations, some of which are under threat, are also mentioned.This is a reference work for ichthyologists, biologists and ecologists, but will also be of interest to those involved in managing aquatic systems.
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This book is a collection of the contributions of researchers who have analysed examples of landscape actions, primarily in Europe, on the basis of actual experiences. It illustrates the diversity of situations and ideas found in Europe today and addresses the following issues: challenges facing landscape action, relationships between landscape and public space within the urban context, ideas underlying policy development and implementation and, finally, channels for public participation...

Martine Berlan-Darqué,
Daniel Terrasson,
Yves Luginbühl
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 15,24 euros TTC
– 64 pages
– 21 x 27 cm
ISSN 1264-9147

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- Artificial substrates: to what extent can natural freshwater diatom communities be assessed ?
Soizic Morin, Michel Coste et François Delmas
-Water policy: The future of our rivers is decided in Chicago too
Jean-Philippe Terreaux
-How to regulate individual agricultural groundwater withdrawals? The case study of the Roussillon Aquifer (South of France)
Gaston Giordana, Marielle Montginoul et Marc Willinger
- History of bioengineering techniques applied to riverbanks
Sophie Labonne, Freddy Rey, Jacky Girel et André Evette
- Documents and traceability in farm enterprises: towards a quality documentary management
Vincent Abt et Marianne Sellam
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"Éléments de démarche pour les diagnostics de territoire" Vincent Briquel, Jean-Jacques Collicard et Marie-Pierre Arlot
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Guide for Implementation and Interpretation
Cyrille Fauchard, Patrice Mériaux
This book presents a three-phase methodology for the efficient diagnosis of “dry dikes” (i.e. dykes built above normal water levels of the rivers that provide protection at time of flood). It is invaluable for anyone involved in dike safety; notably owners, managers, engineers and contractors, and provides all the information required for effective dike diagnosis and for initiating more extensive work or more detailed study.                                         more informationn

Double success for the European sturgeon
At Saint-Seurin sur l’Isle in the Gironde department, Cemagref researchers have just succeeded in two artificial European sturgeon (Acipenser sturio) reproduction operations. Some 100,000 larvae were born, nearly ten times more than in 2007.