Biodiversity is undergoing massive and rapid erosion: 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction according to the latest IPBES report. Among the main causes is the artificialisation of land caused by urban sprawl and diffuse constructions, which destroy natural habitats and ecological continuities. It
PlusIt is not only in France that the campaign for the European elections is struggling. The situation is the same in the 28 member states of the European Union. In the United Kingdom, the pro-Brexit section of the electorate finds it difficult to accept the fact that they have to go to the polls,
PlusThe Yellow Vests crisis has brought to light a deep divide between town and country. The inhabitants of the cities would be opposed to the inhabitants of the fields by different, even antagonistic, lifestyles and socio-economic levels. But does this cleavage correspond to a reality? For Eric Charmes, sociologist
PlusA Manufacture (of weapons), a plain (Achilles), a factory (of innovation), laboratories (of innovative uses and practices), a large factory (creative), platforms (technological), hotels (with project), a village (by CA), a centre (of Knowledge for Innovation), a concierge, incubators, accelerators...and even a Mixer! It all starts
PlusThe law on energy transition for green growth places the Overseas Departments and Collectivities and Corsica at the forefront of the development of renewable energies. It also gives them responsibility for defining their own multi-annual energy programming, in collaboration with the State. How to better respond to the challenges
PlusThe centre-bourgs are dying in the small towns of our French Provinces. Just look at the lowered curtains of the shops and the number of shops for sale. This is a national phenomenon. A devitalization of the cities that the inhabitants are deserting, showing a feeling of decline and abandonment that is great.
PlusHow to "Govern and Innovate in the Real Digital City"? The question comes back to a report published on 25 April 2018, in the form of a "handbook", produced by the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and the FING (New Generation Internet Foundation), which focuses on the capture of
PlusAchieving the smart city also requires a transformation "from within", by reinventing its public services. This is what François Rebsamen, mayor of Dijon and president of Dijon Métropole (1), advocates in a note for the Observatoire de l'expérimentation et de l'innovation locales where he analyses OnDijon, a
PlusDespite the innovation, coffee has always been the first social network in the territories. So what happened to the 600,000 bistros that existed in France in 1960? By 2016, there were only 34,000 (1). And today, 26,000 of the 32,212 French towns and villages no longer have any coffee.
PlusCrisis of confidence between citizens and their representatives, difficulties for the latter to carry out their public service missions, mistrust in the face of programmes that do not or no longer correspond to collective aspirations, nor to the realities on the ground, ... The list is long for the widening gap.
PlusLabel d'or in 2016, Versailles Grand Parc and the city of Versailles will host the regional stage of the Interconnectés 2017 season on Wednesday 18 October, from 9am to 5pm. The aim of this stage is to encourage the sharing of experiences, the debate on the challenges of innovation and digital technology and the promotion of
PlusThe 6th edition of the Project City forum, a forum on the new challenges and needs of the city, will take place on 17 & 18 October 2017 at the Lille Grand Palais: forecasting, trend analysis, education on the latest development projects and their technicality, highlighting the "talents" of the sector and
PlusWhat if what the media is telling us about the decline of public services is wrong? This is what a report by the Observatoire des multinationales, the association that monitors the CAC 40, reveals, not to play the stock market, but to measure its ecological and social impact. The desire to put an end to
PlusDonald Trump seems to be holding on tight to his wall between the United States and Mexico. One more wall in the world and not one of the least. Faced with this regressive idea, a design collective has come up with another solution and proposed it to the two governments concerned: to create an "ecotopia",
PlusWith the recent installations of the offices of AB Tasty, Verteego, etc., a new strong trend is emerging beyond the 86 companies set up in 2016 by Nantes Saint-Nazaire Développement: more and more start-ups and digital companies are choosing regions to set up their IT offices,
PlusDe quelles armes disposent les petites et moyennes communes face aux métropoles ? France Stratégie, dans le cadre de son rendez-vous mensuel « Grand angle », est allé à la rencontre de ces élus qui ont su mettre en place des politiques volontaristes pour attirer l’activité sur leurs territoires. La note d’analyse
PlusCan rivers, seas, oceans, lands, forests, have a legal personality like you and me? It seems incongruous, but yet, one can imagine that a river is defended in its rights in the same way as a natural person. A river could thus take legal action,
PlusFaced with the crisis of confidence in a hyper-industrialized and globalized food supply, the territories have mobilized strongly. They are a scale that makes it easier to create coherence between overly segmented policies (agriculture, health, environment, education, etc.), to create synergies between actors, transparency, the
PlusA l’occasion du salon « Smart Industries » qui vient d’ouvrir ses portes à Paris, l’Industrie alsacienne fait parler d’elle avec la création du label « Alsace Excellence ». Labellisation qui vise à renforcer l’attractivité, le rayonnement et la compétitivité des industries de la région dans une dimension internationale et
PlusLaunched by EDF on a national level in 2013, the EDF Pulse competition is now being rolled out in the regions. The second edition will be held in the Occitanie Pyrénées-Méditerranée region (Toulouse, Montpellier, Perpignan, Nîmes, Tarbes, Rodez, Foix), and the first in Normandy and the PACA region. Its mission: to promote and support the development
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