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Sahelian heat waves and their impacts warning – ACASIS
Heat wave impacts on public health are not taken into accounts in least developed countries, especially Africa, where climate is warmer and adaptation capacities are lower. This problem is however emerging and climate projections indicate that such events should increase in frequency and intensity
THE STRUGGLES FOR « BLUE GOLD » : FROM GRASSROOTS MOBILIZATIONS FOR WATER TO THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES. A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS. – BLUEGRASS
By all standards, water is today and tomorrow's most coveted resource. Although it has often been a vector of cooperation among multiple actors, observers generally agree that environmental conflicts around water management are likely to harden and entail severe risks of social and political unrest
Pressures on Water and Soil Resources in Nepal Himalaya – PRESHINE
The project stake is to understand how himalayan societies make use of their resources and adapt to environemental changes induced or not by human activity. Through the use of different scales of time and space, we intend to measure the tangible effects on the environments of strategies and socio-sp
Environmental Changes and their Categories of Analysis – NATCAT
L’Anthropocène, du néologisme forgé par Paul Crutzen en 2000, était mentionné dans le projet initial comme un simple élément de contextualisation du débat sur la nature. Dans cette deuxième phase de Natcat, il s’est affirmé comme un concept central pour mettre à l’épreuve les catégories philosophiqu
Mechanisms for climate Oscillations and Retroactions at Decadal tImesCale : Uncertainties and Sensitivity – MORDICUS
MORDICUS aims at : 1. Understand the physical/dynamical coupled ocean-atmosphere mechanisms leading to internal variability at decadal timescale. Emphasis is laid on processes connecting subsurface ocean, acting as a source of long-term memory for climate, to surface temperature anomalies possibly
Environmental Effort as Inequality: Justice and Inequity in the name of the Environment. For a comparative analysis of biodiversity and water policies in metropolitan and overseas France – EFFIJIE
The stakes raised by global environmental changes confront more than ever the public policies with a double requirement of environmental efficiency and social justice. They rekindle the debates on the compatibility between struggles for the preservation of natural resources and against social inequa
MONitoring of OIL activities in Ecuador : a cross-disciplinary approach between people, environment, and health – MONOIL
The main objective of the MONOIL Program is the coupled analysis of the vulnerability and resilience of socio-economic and environmental systems to oil contamination but also on other economic impacts of the oil activity, such as agriculture or household welfare. Its principal objective is the impro