Les travaux du Grand Canal d’Alsace amorcés dès 1928 et la position stratégique de ce secteur au cœur de l’Europe, ont favorisé l’implantation d’industries sur la rive française entre Huningue et Neuf-Brisach. Historiquement, le droit français et le droit allemand s’étaient très tôt muni d’un arsenal règlementaire pour encadrer les nuisances sonores et olfactives engendrées par les industries. Les rejets…
The ongoing spatial turn of both energy research and transition studies have highlighted the need for a stronger understanding of spatial configurations to grasp the heterogeneity of energy transition pathways. While previous works predominantly focused on territorial context inhibiting or driving renewable energy development, the dynamics of incumbent energy systems remain understudied. This is particularly the case for nuclear power,…
Aquatic environmental DNA (eDNA) studies have considerably taken off during the last 10 years, promptly establishing eDNA as a new approach to monitoring the ecological status of European surface waters. On the one hand due to the numerous biological methods based on aquatic species, on the other hand due to the development of group-specific primers that allowed discrimination between species…
The first and second reactors of the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant were shut down in February and June 2020, respectively. The idea of establishing an environmental state T0 after the closure of the Fessenheim plant arose with a view to a territorial upgrading. In this context, the issue of aquatic ecotoxicity has become relevant. The fate and effects of certain…
As hydrosystems are particularly sensitive to human activities, it is crucial to assess the evolution of human impacts as well as the effects of some restoration actions implemented during the last decades. This study focuses on the section of the Upper Rhine between Neuf-Brisach and Strasbourg. It aims at mapping the evolution of the geochemical signal recorded in the fine…
Les pollutions chroniques et accidentelles des eaux du Rhin les plus importantes sont survenues avec l’avènement des industries chimiques et lourdes. Dès lors, une multitude de textes juridiques (conventions internationales, directives de l’Union européenne, lois, décrets) a été élaborée afin de lutter contre la pollution industrielle. Les intentions de cette contribution sont d’apporter des pistes méthodologiques à l’aide d’outils numériques d’une…
The construction of Fessenheim nuclear power station (operating since 1977) on the Rhine was arised from the presence of a sufficient river flow which avoids building a cooling tower for the nuclear plant. The study consists in comparing the Fessenheim nuclear plant emissions in the Grand Canal d’Alsace to other industries’ emissions (Schiff, 2017) that are located between Basel to…