Une méthode d'évaluation environnementale pour la réhabilitation des friches industrielles

Abstract

Urban planning is currently moving towards a sustainable development approach, as cities are increasingly stifled with problems of air pollution, social problems and they are looking for a niche in a thoughtful development to alleviate these problems. It is through local projects, such as sustainable neighborhoods, that community policies are initiated and implemented. The use of indicators in city expansion or densification processes can influence the choice of project objectives. Indeed, they can be adapted to local expectations to better take into account the particularities of certain urban areas. This is the case with the reuse of brownfield sites, where the lack of a previous participation process and a lack of ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of these types of projects can lead to failure. The lack of use of local indicators can lead to a lack of ownership and commitment of future residents in the sustainable development approach. The main goal of our research is to identify indicators that are both capable of fostering the integration of the notion of sustainability, but which are also flexible enough to be able to adapt to the complexity of local contexts sustainable neighborhood projects or specific contexts (brownfields). The work carried out has confirmed that there is a lack of systematic and structured approaches in the scientific literature aimed at defining the characteristics of the collaboration between future residents and local organizations for the rehabilitation of industrial wastelands. As a result, a methodological approach has been developed that integrates local indicators related to the environmental, social and economic components. This research proposes an evaluation method derived from an analysis of the methods used in urban development projects. It consists of a multi-level methodological approach that describes the relationships between stakeholders and the implementation of an assessment tool for brownfield contextualization to the rest of the territory according to local expectations and sustainability objectives. This approach aims to facilitate participation among all stakeholders in managing and evaluating brownfield revitalization projects with the evaluation tool built within the specific framework of this research. The results of the research have shown that the use of local indicators (35 indicators identified in the proposed method) improves the contextualization of the project to the existing urban fabric. Similarly, in the process of stakeholder individuation, the method includes 8 stakeholder groups that share their expertise in the decision-making process to increase project success and community acceptance. In addition to the project cycle, the evaluation method includes 3 essential steps for the evaluation of the project, this implies a continuous evaluation to meet the objectives of the project and meet for the objectives of sustainability.

Date	7 Aug 2019
Original language	French
Awarding Institution	École de technologie supérieure
Supervisor	Daniel Forgues (Supervisor) & Mathias Glaus (Co-supervisor)