Membership Category
- Associate
Institution
- École des Mines de St-Étienne
Discipline(s)
- Water and Environment
Expertises
- Performance of the best available techniques for decision support
- Contribution to methods for assessing environmental pressures and impacts
- Evaluation of the potential of industrial and territorial ecology
- Reflections on the modalities of restitution of environmental information systems
Biography
Valérie LAFOREST, Research Director at Mines Saint-Etienne, is in charge of the Environmental Engineering for Organizations department within the Institut Fayol/ Mines Saint-Etienne/IMT and is a member of the UMR 5600 Environnement Ville Société. Her research activities concern the development of tools and methods for the environmental assessment of industrial systems, with a particular focus on environmental technologies such as best available techniques. She is also interested in the operationalization of circular economy strategies, and more specifically in the characterization of territorial potential in terms of industrial and territorial ecology strategies.