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• 01 mar 2014

  Istanbul

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  CODATU XVI

  Climatic change, air quality and energy challenges: the role policy in urban transport and preventative measures in developing countries and emerging economies

  Transport is an integral component of sustaining livelihoods: without efficient urban transport mankind would not survive and develop and nor would economies. Yet, despite the immense benefits that transport enables, such as access to jobs, markets, education, and consumer goods and services via global supply chains, the transport sector generates substantial disbenefits. These include dependence on non-renewable energy, greenhouse gas emissions, local pollutions, road accidents and inequalities of access. Such disbenefits clearly demonstrate that the transport sector is currently unsustainable economically, environmentally and socially.

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• 30 mar 2011

  Tangier

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Tangier-Ports : Prospects of a changing territory

  La ville de Tanger, et à travers elle tout le pôle tangérois, ne cesse de connaitre de profondes métamorphoses sur tous les plans. Une décennie de transformations en profondeur appelle tous les intervenants, territoriaux et sectoriaux sur les échelles locale, régionale et nationale, à adopter une démarche prospective, intelligente, proactive, globale et durable pour espérer baliser et anticiper le « futur commun ».

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