Agence Nationale de la Recherche
ANR
Period: 2018 - 2021
The WIsDHoM project (Wealth inequalities and the dynamics of housing market. Interpreting real-estate market-based regime of spatial inequalities) is a research programme conducted jointly by UMR Géographie-cités (Paris), UMR ESPACE (Avignon) and Centre Max Weber (Lyon).
WIsDHoM analyzes growing (...)
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ANR
Period: 2016 - 2018
The way people are connected to each other and the way our cities are built have both been shown to influence healthy aging. Yet, we do not understand exactly how built environments, daily mobility, and social networks either favour or hinder healthy aging. But novel wearable sensor devices (...)
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ANR
Period: 2014 - 2018
ODESSA European project (Optimising care DElivery models to Support Ageing-in-place : towards independance, affordability, and financial sustainability)
Duration: 4 years (September 2014-August 2018)
Co-financing by ANR (France), ESRC (UK), NSFC (China)
The ODESSA project is part of the (...)
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ANR
Period: 2013 - 2016
Society faced with surface water quality change (France, 19th-20th century)
The Water Framework Directive (2000) deeply contributed to modify our look at water, its management and its vulnerability. This project which associates historians, geographers, political scientists, jurists, (...)
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ANR
Period: 2013 - 2016
Climate change prompts Human Society to develop adaptive capacities in front of extreme weather events, which are expected to increase in frequency in many regions of the world, while social vulnerability also evolves.
MobiCLIMEx addresses the question of human exposure to short fuse weather (...)
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ANR
Period: 2013 - 2015
Expansion de la finance de marché et production urbaine en Asie, le cas de la Chine et de l’Inde
Porté par le Centre d’Etudes sur la Chine Contemporaine (CEFC) et le Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS), le projet FINURBASIE interroge les modalités de la « financiarisation » des (...)
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ANR
Period: 2011-2015
How can low density spaces, whether they participate in the rural or the peri-urban (depending on the INSEE categories), contribute in their way to the development of globally more sustainable territories ? The present research proposal postulates that, next to and in addition to the compact, (...)
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ANR
Period: 2011-2014
The TransMonDyn project started in January 2011 and will go one until the end of 2014. The project is about the evolution and transformation of settlement systems over different periods, from shorter to longer time span (several millennia). The aim is to identify generic processes operating in (...)
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ANR
Period: 2010-2013
What possible roles exist for water-borne transport and inland ports ? A sustainable transport solution: French river cities and their ports. FLUIDE is a comparative study launched in Paris, Lyon, Lille and Strasbourg with international comparison. The research presents solution to bring (...)
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ANR-08-VILL-0004-01
Period: 2009-2012
We propose to question the sustainable city by focusing on one of its very central components, daily mobility. Indeed, if cities can be interpreted as spatial organisations favouring social interactions, the number of daily movements needed to reach this goal is continuously increasing. (...)
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