Research and Teaching Institute in Environmental Sciences : IRESE

Structure recognized by the Ministry: PF SCALE
"Sciences Applied to the Environment: transfers of scales in the Environment"

M. LAFITE: UMR 6143 m2 C, Science and Engineering Faculty, Rouen University, 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex
Tel.: +33 (0)2 35 14 69 48 Fax: +33 (0)2 35 14 70 22
Email: robert.lafite@univ-rouen.fr

M. BUREAU: EA 1293 ECODIV, Science and Engineering Faculty, Rouen University, 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex
Tel.: +33 (0)2 35 14 67 72 Fax:
Email: fabrice.bureau@univ-rouen.fr

Ms PETIT : EA 2123 LMDF, Science and Engineering Faculty, Rouen University, 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex
Tel.: +33 (0)2 35 14 66 84 Fax:
Email: fabienne.petit@univ-rouen.fr

General objectives
The concepts of planetary change and sustainable development integrate all of the direct and indirect effects related to human activities, (industry, urbanization and agriculture) and their consequences on the sustainability of our development: climatic change and its impact on the water cycle, impact on the biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity, pollution.
On the regional scale, various fields of research have been developed in recent years corresponding to these various issues. Part of this research is based on cooperation programmes already existing between the various teams in the Rouen area involved in the field of the environment:
M2 C UMR CNRS 6143
ECODIV UPRES EA 1293
LMDF UPRES EA 2123 site MSA (Genediv & Biodiversity and environment groups)

The Research and Teaching Institute of Environmental Sciences (IRESE) federates the skills in research and teaching on the site of Mont-Saint-Aignan. In accordance with the Multiple Training Project, it is also responsible for developing an interdisciplinary approach (FRE 2795 IDEES Geography Rouen-MTG Le Havre-CIRTAI, UPRES EA 2260 CARE Economics, FRE 2645 CNRS PSI, Modelling) on the following topics:
- Consequences of climatic change and major risks
- Biodiversity and its dynamics with the structuring of a regional workshop site

Solving scientific problems in terms of the environment requires a systemic approach which completely overruns the traditional partitions between laboratory disciplines. Setting up multidisciplinary research programmes implies that the researchers develop cooperation programmes with members of other laboratories with converging and complementary objectives, and common sites for study. This approach has already enabled joint publications by the various teams in this multiple-training programme (PPF)).

The regional teams involved in this project develop fundamental and applied research recognized in every field of competence required for environmental analysis. The work of these teams is recognized by the main organisations CNRS, INRA, IFREMER, IRSN, BRGM…
They have acquired an experiment in their fields enabling them to meet the scientific objectives of the multiple-training programme (PPF): acquisition of environmental data (metrology, physicochemistry, chemical, microbiological and biological data), data processing (conventional statistical treatment, data fusion, file restoration, etc.), integration and interpretation by use of MIS in particular, socio-economic analysis of the problems involved in the environment.


This multiple-training programme (PPF) has enabled the set-up of a common technical platform, with tools dedicated to the issues involved in the environmental approach on various scales of time and space. The platform will form part of the IRESE, with new buildings that are to be set up as part of the reorganisation of the site of Mont-Saint-Aignan.