AUBERGER Julie

Scientist at INRAE / SAS Phone: (+33) 2 23 48 59 42 Email: julie.auberger@inrae.fr Address: INRAE Centre Bretagne-Normandie, UMR SAS, 65 rue de St-Brieuc, CS 84215, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France Expertise: Environmental assessment Keywords: Multi-criteria assessment, LCA, agricultural production system, tools

Research

Current research topics

My topic is the environmental assessment of agricultural production systems, mainly at farm level.

I am developing methods for evaluating farms with high diversity: how to characterize that diversity and which functional unit use to compare diversified systems .

I contribute to the analysis of the relationships between agricultural practices, production performance, and climate change impacts through collaborations with scientists in the research unit.

Current projects

• Co-supervision of a postdoctoral research project: Assessment of the impact of levers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from dairy cattle farms and their alignment with agroecological principles – Funding: PHASE Department, INRAE. This project combines a participatory redesign approach for dairy farms with a quantification of greenhouse gas emissions from baseline systems and redesigned systems.
• Sensitivity of dairy cattle farms to their economic environment in a context of climate variability (SensiLAIT) – Funding: "Méta Programme" XRisques, INRAE. This project aims to explore the consequences of economic and climatic hazards on the functionning of dairy cattle farms using statistical modeling approaches.

Participation in networks

• LCA network of INRAE

Productions

Paul Lardoux, Louise Forteau, Agata Rzekec, Caroline Malnoë, Joël Aubin, Anne-Lise Pépin, Guilhem Rostain, Julien Hilaire, Julie Auberger. Assessing environmental impacts of equine systems using LCA: innovative methodological framework and case study. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2026, 31 (1-3), 16 p. ⟨10.1007/s11367-026-02613-4⟩. ⟨hal-05553739⟩

Wafa Malik, Julie Auberger, Manon Dardonville, Nirina Ratsimba, Olivier Therond, Eléonore Loiseau. Enhancing territorial life cycle assessment with integrated assessment modeling of agricultural landscapes: Insights from a French cropping region. Science of the Total Environment, 2025, 1008, pp.180951. ⟨10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180951⟩. ⟨hal-05409782⟩

Pascal Thiébeau, Julie Auberger, Hugues Clivot, Aurélie Wilfart, Sylvie Recous. Environmental footprint of dehydrated alfalfa production (Medicago sativa L.) in France. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023, 423 (138704), pp.1-17. (hal-04209585)
⟨10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138704⟩.