Team presentation
Multidisciplinary research team consisting of planners, geographers and historians developing two research areas (urban-development-sustainability (IRCS) and political geography), which converge in a common theme "Cities and powers."
Directorate
François Bost (director)
Email: francois.bost@univ-reims.fr
Phone: +33 (0)3.26.91.87.79
Pr. François Mancebo (assistant director)
Email: francois.mancebo@univ-reims.fr
Tél: +33 (0)6.12.53.74.46
Composition
21 teacher-researchers and engineers
15 PhD
Keywords
Decision support - development - sustainability - environment - Borders - Political Geography - Geopolitics - innovation - interdisciplinarity - mobility - public policy - powers - International Relations - Sustainability Science - territory - urban - city - colonial city
Research themes
Urban planning, sustainability - IRCS (International Research Center on Sustainaibility)
- After Rio +20, which systems of governance for which sustainability?
- Climate Change and Migration: Scenarios under water stress in Central Asia
- Conditions for dialogue between researchers, civil society, business and local authorities for sustainable medium-sized cities in Europe.
- Developing sustainable living and social justice: what trade-offs?
- Renewable energy: legitimacy and long-term impact of scenarios in the context of multi-level governance.
- Social Innovation
- Objectives of sustainable development post-2015: Towards a new social contract
- What planning policies to take account of emerging pollutants and endocrine disruptors?
- Under the cobblestones, the city identify the conditions for the registration of an underground city urban sustainable
- Temporalities urban projects
- Towards a sustainable periurbanisation by usages.
Political space
- Theory of political geography and geopolitics,
- Geopolitics of the world system around themes of borders, cities and actors' strategies.
- Study "border barriers"
- Study social boundaries in cities.
Two Masters are linked with these research activities:
- a vocational Master: Master in Urban development and Environment, sponsored by IATEUR (Institut d'Aménagement du Territoire, d'Environnement et d'Urbanisme de l'Université de Reims = URCA’s Land Development, Environment and Urbanism Institute)
- a research Master (specialisation of the mention History and Geopolitic)
Expertise
- Leader of major projects (European projects, national projects ANR)
- Consultancy
- Organisation of annual Rencontres Internationales de Reims on Sustainability Studies
- Organization of workshops BABEL-Building key concepts of sustainable development.
Partnerships
National industrial partnerships:
- Team STEEP (Sustainability Transition, Environment, Economy and local Policy) - INRIA
- IAU (Institute of Urban Planning and Development) Ile de France
- INGELUX Consultants - Lyon
- Suez Environnement
National academic partnerships:
- DREAL Champagne-Ardenne
- Ecole Nationale d'Architecture Paris Val de Seine
- GRECAU (Research Group Environment and Urban Architectural Design) - National School of Architecture and Landscape of Bordeaux
- Planning Institute of Grenoble - Grenoble University
- IRPHIL (Institute of Philosophical Lyon) - University Lyon 3
- HLDAA (Laboratory Design Territory History) - National School of Architecture and Landscape of Lille
- LASH (LABORATORY Sciences de l'Habitat) - Lyon ENTPE
- PUCA (Urban Planning Architecture) Minsitère of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy
- Region Champagne-Ardenne
- Reims Métropole
- RMS (RMS)
- SBRI (Stem-cell and Brain Research Institute) - INSERM
- UMR LADYSS - University Paris 8
- UMR LPPA (Laboratory of Physiology of Perception and Action) - Collège de France.
- City of Reims
International industrial partnership:
- BioRegional, United Kingdom
- Centre for Systems Solutions Association, Poland
- CITET (Tunis International Centre for Environmental Technologies), Tunisia
- Team STEEP (Sustainability Transition, Environment, Economy and local Policy) - INRIA
- IAU (Institute of Urban Planning and Development) Ile de France
- INGELUX Consultants - Lyon
- Organization Space Environment, Belgium
- Siemens PLC, United Kingdom
- Suez Environnement
- TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) Delhi, India
International academic partnerships:
- Department of Political Science - University of New Hampshire, USA
- ENVSEC (Environment and Security Initiative) - United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office for Eastern Europe (UNEP / ROE), Switzerland
- Faculty of Sciences - Ibn Tofail University, Morocco
- Harvard University - Sustainable Science Program, USA
- Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary
- Hungarian National Association of Local Authorities, Hungary
- Institute of Information Science and Technology - National Research Council (CNR), Italy
- Maastricht University, Netherlands
- Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (NL)
- NWRC (National Water Research Centre), Egypt
- Madrid Polytechnic University, Beer-Sheva (Israel)
- SIO (Shirshov Institute of Oceanology) - Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) Unviersity, Delhi, India
- Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
- Universidade do Minho, Portugal
- University of Montreal, Canada
- University of Camerino, Italy
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Matej Bel University (Banska Bystrica, Slovakia)
Organization of scientific events
Current and future events:
- Third Rencontres Internationales de Reims on Sustainability Studies, "Sustainable Development Goals after 2015: towards a new social contract", 19-20 June 2013, Reims
- Seminar Babel - Building Sustainable Development (http://babel.hypotheses.org/)
- Seminar Cities and Powers (http://www.univ-reims.fr/habiter)
- Seminar on the History of Colonial America [http://shac.reims.free.fr/SHAC/programme.php]
Major past events:
- Second Rencontres Internationales de Reims on Sustainability Studies, "After Rio +20, which systems of governance for which sustainability? When planning becomes an exercise in democracy ", 26-27 September 2012, Reims
- First Rencontres Internationales de Reims on Sustainability Studies, "Social equity and environmental sustainability: the return of planning", 22-23 June 2011, Reims
- International Symposium "Space Policy: Concepts and Ladders", 2 - 4 April 2008, Reims.
- Conference "The Champagne-Ardenne and Picardie challenges the attractiveness and competitiveness of territories" 22 to 23 June 2006, Reims.
- Several study days organized by IATEUR
Current projects
Programs submitted under evaluation:
- FP7 European project "Governance of Sustainable Urban and Regional Medium Sized Systems (MESURS)" within the framework of the call for project "Mobilization and Mutual Learning Action Plan (MML): Mainstreaming Science in Society Actions in Research (SiS.2013.1 .2-1) "[Leading partner, carrying the project]
- CSFRS (Superior Council of Education and Research Strategic) - Call for proposals non-thematic 2012 - WALLS. Border barriers in the contemporary world [Portage Project]
- Project ORA Plus - ANR "Plotting Our Sustainable Energy Future: Legitimacy and Impact of Long-Term Energy Scenarios in a Multilevel Governance Context". [Co-portage project]
- Program NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme. "Project" Climate-Water-Migration Nexus: Scenarios for North Africa and Central Asia ". [Co-portage project]
Programs:
- National Project "D-Town 10 Cities of ideas" "Under the cobblestones, the city arrange the meeting of two worlds" [Project Management]
- Project emerging "TrEcoPolEm" Fate and impact of emerging pollutants from the health sector in the environment "[Direction of Work Package" Development Policies "]
- Program PUCA "From suburban to urban: the other side of the mirror - A suburban areas by the thought, for a peri modeled by usage" [Portage and project management]
- Program PUCA "Temporalities urban project" [Portage and project management]
- Projects Walls on the observation and analysis of closed borders
- FP7 EUBORDERSCAPES, Bordering, Landscapes Political and Social Arenas: ? Potentials and Challenges of Border Evolving Concepts in a post-Cold War World
- Editing the Corpus sources Caribbean (volumes 3, 4, 5, 6)
Completed projects:
- ANR Sustainable City AETIC (Integrated Territorial Economic Approach to Climate Change) [direction of Work Package Planning]
- Project EXCLIM (Exiles climate), urban policy to the test population displacements due to extreme weather events in the program GICC2 (Managing Impacts of Climate Change) and the MEEDEM CNRS - [porting and scientific leadership] .
- PIRVE Program (Interdisciplinary Research Program City and Environment - CNRS) "Towards sustainable urban and peri - A study of the transition to sustainability thinking at the regional level in 2020 and 2050" - [porting and scientific leadership project].
- Research for a formalization of combining sustainable urban development team STEEP.