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.

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