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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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• 08 mar 2013

  Marseille

  Conference, symposium - Law

  The women at the heart of the Arab world

  Law, economy and society

  Compte tenu des évènements récents, qui ont secoué et continuent de secouer certains pays arabes, il a paru nécessaire de s’intéresser à l’évolution (passée et future, à court terme, mais aussi à long terme) de certains des aspects du statut et de la condition des femmes du Maghreb, du Machrek et de la péninsule Arabique. Ce colloque permettra d’entendre des spécialistes et des professionnels d’horizons et d’origines divers, venus des deux « rives » de la Méditerranée, toutes et tous spécialistes dans leurs champs de réflexion ou d’action respectifs (droit, science politique, économie, sociologie, culture,…).

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