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Humanity is living in overshoot, adopting production-consumption patterns that are increasingly disconnected from resources, needs, and the wellbeing of people and the planet. It is fundamental to understand how to bring all citizens to engage individually and collectively for a more sustainable fut

On a local and international scale, urban heritage is a powerful vector for development and the enhancement of identities, as well as a lever for the tourist economy and many aspects of regional planning. The enhancement of urban heritage is studied mainly from the point of view of the public sect

The business model of French urban developers, key actors in urban production, is mainly resting on the sale of property charges. One such model relies on the expected value of future buildings, anchoring it directly to the functioning of the land and real estate markets. Yet, a series of socio-ecol

LAMARTINE aims at measuring building and land use regulations and evaluate their socioeconomic and environmental impact. Starting from the observation that the share of land in housing value has been constantly increasing, this project aims to understand the potential role of land use regulation in

In the context of the implementation of sustainable solutions for the objectives "Life on Earth" (#15), "Climate Action" (#13), and "Sustainable Tourism" (target 8.9) and in particular to measure human pressures on ecosystems, the aim of the IntForOut project is to develop new methods and tools to b

Since the turn of the millennium, cities across Europe have persistently lost population while their surrounding metropolitan areas grew. These divergent dynamics have reshaped the relationships between urban centers and their suburbs. Moreover, the contrasting demographic trends challenge the widel

ECOBOOM project proposes an analysis of the contemporary transformations of the mining sector in the energy transition, and its effects on the modes of exploitation and the territories. It takes a North/South perspective, extending from extractive territories to national and global scales. It compar

Sociological and economic research and political debates in India continue to focus on the role of social groups in shaping disparities across the country. However, existing research often fails to capture the true complexity of India's social structure, which includes hundreds of distinct communiti

In Brazil, agroindustrial expansion has accelerated since the 2000s, with new combinations of monocrops (mainly soybeans) and cattle ranching, despite various instruments of environmental regulation (rural environmental cadastre, deforestation licenses, water licences, etc.). We hypothesize that th