Abstract
The recent extension of intensive agriculture on the karst plateaus has caused different types of impact: soil management, generalised and/or localised pollution. Yet paradoxically rural depopulation can also have negative impacts, which largely depend on the characteristics and the hydrological function of the different karst environments. They are often negative, particularly as far as the water quality is concerned, which is why protection measures are undertaken, either in a defined area for a catchment, or in the framework of regional parks. But this is not always the case, so it is appropriate to analyse the problem of karst pollution as a whole, and to propose to experiment new solutions to mitigate the impacts.
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.28.1.2
Recommended Citation
Nicod, Jean and Jean-Noël Salomon.
1999.
Impacts of agricultural transformation on the principal karstic regions of France.
International Journal of Speleology,
28: 15-31.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol28/iss1/2
