From the genesis of resources to the environmental and social impacts of their exploitation: integrated and reasoned common approach.
Leaders: Stéphane BRUSSET and Jérôme VIERS
Contaminations and environmental and societal impacts
- Transfer of metals in the crust and critical zone
- Soil-plant-atmosphere contaminant interactions
- Environmental monitoring in impacted zones
- Waste, residues, and urban mining
- Assessment of health and societal risks & exposure calculations
- Common goods
Geological processes and genesis of geo-resources
- Sedimentary basins and fluids, geothermal energy
- Understanding and evaluation of ore deposits (genesis)
- Metallogeny and mineralizing processes
- Functioning of karstic hydrosystems
- Reflexivity on the role of researchers and current standards
Strategies for more reasoned and sustainable uses, exploitations, and sources
- Europe
- Andes
- Africa
- Multi-scales
- Interdisciplinarity
- Participatory sciences
Scientific result
Uranium and thorium in coastal sediments in the central Gulf of Gabès (SE Tunisia): alarming contamination with environmental and health impacts
The central part of the Gulf of Gabès (SE Tunisia) is one of the most chemically and radioactively polluted sites in the Mediterranean, and indeed worldwide, due to massive discharges […]
Scientific result
In Chile, inhabitants and plants unite to reveal air pollution
Chile is one of the countries most affected by environmental pollution in South America. This is particularly true in the province of Chacabuco, north of the capital Santiago, where the […]
Training
Reality and complexity of mining in Southern Peru
Patrice Baby, geologist (UMR GET) and Silvia Rosas, geologist engineer (PUCP) looked at the issue of sustainable mining in Peru. This is how the PSF MIGEDU (2022-2024), MIne and Sustainable […]
Training
Training for soil revegetation
A Research Training School (EFR) on the theme of health in a mining socio-ecosystem in Côte d’Ivoire was held from October 28 to November 2, 2024. The school was co-organized […]
Scientific result
Algamarca gold deposit in Peru: News on its formation
With their partners from South American institutions, researchers from the Géosciences Environnement Toulouse laboratory (GET-OMP – CNES/CNRS/IRD/UT3) analyzed the fluids of the earth’s crust at the origin of the gold […]
Award
A CNRS research project receives the participatory research award !
On June 27, 2024, AirGéo, a participatory research project on air pollution in Senegal supported by the CNRS, received the “Co-construction” prize during the third national participatory research awards ceremony. […]
