Romain Melot

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Scientist at INRAE UMR BAGAP

Phone: +33 2 41 23 55 20 • Email   romain.melot@inrae.fr 

Address: Research unit BAGAP, ESA, 55 rue Rabelais, 49000 ANGERS, France

Expertise: Sociology of law

Keywords: Sociology – Law – Property rights – Planning - Land

Research

Current Research Topics

I am research professor in sociology at INRAE. My research is in the field of sociology of law and explores subjects related to property rights, conflicts of use and the social uses of law. I uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine contractual practices, the implementation of public policies, legal expertise and the production and interpretation of rules at local level. I have tackled a wide range of subjects, including the ways in which people resort to the courts in environmental and town planning matters, conflicts linked to development operations, land ownership rights in the agricultural world and local planning policies. I have coordinated several research projects funded by the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Agriculture and regional councils in France. I am co-editor-in-chief of Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, the social science journal created by INRAE and edited by Springer.

Current Projects
Participation in Networks
  • Member of INRAE's FONCIMED international research network.
    Co-leader of INRAE's ‘Agricultural and rural land tenure’ network.
    Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of :  
    French Institute of studies and research on law and justice (IERDJ
    National federation of land agencies (FN-SAFER
    TETRAE research program

Selected Productions

Scientific papers

Liu T., Melot R., Wallet F. (2024), Integrating land and food policy to transform territorial food systems in the context of coexisting agri-food models: Case studies in France. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 12 January 2024; 12 (1): 00063. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00063 , https://hal.science/hal-04536324

Veenstra, J., Coquet, Y., Melot, R., & Walter, C. (2024). A European stakeholder survey on soil science skills for sustainable agriculture. European Journal of Soil Science, 75(2), e13449. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13449 , https://hal.science/hal-04370701

Walter, C., Veenstra, J., Melot, R., & Coquet, Y. (2024). Identification of soil-related professional profiles for the future from a survey of European stakeholders. European Journal of Soil Science, 75(2), e13469. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13469 , https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-04638257

Tianzhu Liu, Willem K. Korthals Altes, Romain Melot, Frederic Wallet (2023). Reterritorialisation of agricultural activities in land-use and food planning: comparing the Netherlands and France. European Planning Studies, 21 p., https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2023.2244567 , https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-04189708

Sebastian Billows, Romain Melot (2023-05-24). L’agriculture sous contrat : quelles perspectives sociologiques ? Revue Française de Socio-Economie, n° 30, 275-284, https://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rfse.030.0275 , https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-04132726,

Yannick Dongmo Zangue, Romain Melot, Philippe Martin (2022-11-01). Diversity of farmland management practices (FMP) and their nexus to environment: A review. Journal of Environmental Management, 302 (Part B), 114059, https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114059 , https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03430589,

Romain Melot, Lise Bourdeau-Lepage, Mathieu Bonnefond (2021-12-30). Introduction. Réinterroger les liens entre urbain et rural : interconnexions et coordinations des territoires. Géographie, Économie, Société, 23 (4), 357-366, https://dx.doi.org/10.3166/ges.2021.0021 , https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03942848 , (introduction à un dossier spécial)

Claude Napoleone, Romain Melot (2021-03-17). Farmland management and sustainable development in the Mediterranean: land use changes, public policies, and collective resources. Regional Environmental Change, 21, https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01748-4 , https://hal.science/hal-03176016 , (introduction à un dossier spécial)

Laurent Piet, Romain Melot, Soukeyna Diop (2021). What drives competition on the farmland market? A case study in Brittany (France). European Review of Agricultural Economics, 48 (1), 60-96, https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaa019 , https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03275149

Camille Le Bivic, Romain Melot (2020-12-01). Scheduling urbanization in rural municipalities: Local practices in land-use planning on the fringes of the Paris region. Land Use Policy, 99, https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105040 , https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02937962