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• 08 jui 2015

  09 jui 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Urban studies

  Rethinking Precarious Neighborhoods

  Works, paths and interventions

  The international conference "Rethinking Precarious Neighbourhoods" will be organised following two major thematics. First, it will reread and analyse pioneer works on constitution and meanings of precarious habitat, including how ideas and concepts have been mediatized. On a second hand, it will explore the new tendencies of research on these spatial entites and their developments, focusing on land tenure security.

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• 31 mai 2015

  Brest

  Call for papers - Science studies

  Co-sciences : collaborations sciences / entreprises

  Construisons ensemble l'innovation de demain

  Les rapports entre recherche, innovation, marchés, entreprises, État et espace public, c'est-à dire, en d'autres termes, les rapports entre sciences et société ont connu de profondes mutations. De même, le contexte environnemental et socio-économique actuel appelle aujourd'hui, les acteurs à explorer de nouveaux chemins pour faire face à ces enjeux.

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• 29 oct 2015

  Béja

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Farming systems’ crises, food insecurity and peasant resistance

  Which ways for an authentic sustainable development?

  The food issue keeps feeding concern and controversy. Rightly since the fate of a large fraction of humankind is at stake: the number of people suffering from hunger has exceeded one billion in 2009, which is intolerable, in spite of its slow current reduction. Nowadays speculating about the population growth is rather outdated, since it is practically admitted that the Earth will reach a maximum of ten billion people in the course of this century. The actual question is how to ensure a decent food supply to all of this population, on account of resources that are indeed globally limited and above all most unequally distributed. The current crisis of farming systems throughout the world is a ransom for centuries of collective irresponsibility.

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