Le territoire, un levier complémentaire pour l’atteinte du facteur 4 by Jacques Theys, Éric Vidalenc

“…The Commissariat Général au Développement Durable (the French Sustainable Development General Commission) and the ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency) have jointly launched a research program called “Reconsidering cities in a post-carbon society” in order to emphasize the role of territorial aspects in the energy transition.…”
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Un conte de deux villes : une géohistoire comparée de São Paulo et Lyon, 500 000 habitants en 1920 by Bernard Gauthiez, Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno, Fernanda Padovesi Fonseca, Leca De Biaggi, Iris Kantor, Eliane Kuvasney, Jaime Tadeu Oliva, Olivier Chareire, Eduardo Dutenkefer, Letícia Falasqui Tachinardi Rocha, Luciano Zoboli

“…The former city was at that time in a trajectory of rapid growth, the latter more stable but with a strong industrial economy. …”
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The Costs of Managing an Urban Forest by Francisco Escobedo, Jennifer Seitz

“…Urban forests provide benefits to society often referred to as ecosystem services: they improve human health, environmental quality, and local economies by increasing property values and aesthetics in communities. They help cities control storm water, reduce air pollution and energy costs, and offset carbon dioxide emissions. …”
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Ekoinnowacje a rozwój zrównoważony by Ireneusz Chrząścik, Anna Marciniuk-Kluska, Mariusz Kluska

“…Still, it is a great challenge for EU cities and regions. Also examined were little cooperation between entrepreneurs and people of science in the processes introducing modern technologies and expenditure on innovations.…”
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Models of distribution of public transport correspondence by T. N. Sakulyeva

“…The subject of this research is the theory of traffic flow modeling and modern transport infrastructure in cities and regions. The article discusses the classification and application of various models of correspondence on public transport routes – network, route, and multimodal. …”
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Fronts de terres, géographie des relations urbaines et rurales par le biais des terres excavées en Île-de-France by Marie-Laure Garnier, Patrick Moquay

“…The way we build cities generates considerable volumes of excavated soil. …”
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The Impact of Borrowing Debt on the Efficiency Loss of Municipal Infrastructure Investment and Construction by Xiaojie Li, Hao Li, Fei Qiu

“…In this paper, panel data from 2003 to 2018 in cities above the prefecture level in China are used to study the impact of borrowing debt on the efficiency loss of municipal infrastructure investment and construction. …”
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Le paysage périurbain, outil de coopération entre métropoles européennes alpines by Aurore Meyfroidt

“…Peri-urban spaces are areas where new relationships between the city and the countryside are being fostered and new lifestyles are being reinvented. …”
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Origens da segregação racial no Brasil by Reinaldo José de  Oliveira, Regina Marques de Souza Oliveira

“…In addition to the socioeconomic contradictions, is the body of the city that streamline places of racism that reflects the over-representation of black people in all spaces, places and territories.…”
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Mathematical analysis and dynamic active subspaces for a long term model of HIV by Tyson Loudon, Stephen Pankavich

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Áreas urbanas inundáveis, perspectivas de gestão nos contextos francês e brasileiro by Sergio Torres Moraes

“…In both countries the search to structure a complex organization of the territory relies on a universe of legal instruments, which are not always enough to achieve the "right to the city" to its inhabitants. In the case of urban areas subject to natural events risk, an effort is being made to create specific instruments to achieve a democratic management of the cities' environment and to protect the population at risk. …”
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THE AMUR RIVER WATER DURING THE WINTER LOW WATER PERIOD: THE MANY-YEAR DYNAMICS OF THE SULFATES CONTENT AND RUNOFF by Vladimir P. Shesterkin, Nina M. Shesterkina

“…Therefore, the purpose of the research is to study the long-term dynamics of the content and runoff of sulfates in the Amur River in the winter low-water, based on the materials of Roshydromet for 1943-1976 and the author’s data for 1999-2019.Significant variations in the main areas were found due to both the diversity of natural conditions and anthropogenic influence in the areas of large cities and localities. The impact of the construction of hydroelectric power plants, significant economic changes in the Chinese part of the Amur basin, as well as the closure of pulp and paper and microbiological industries in the Russian part of the Amur basin on the long-term dynamics of the content and flow of sulfates is estimated. …”

Mutations récentes, dynamiques actuelles et perspectives de transition des territoires ruraux périurbains en Tunisie by Nasser Rebaï, Johan Desbonnet, Hédi Rebei

“…While the country must promote another agricultural model to respond to popular aspirations in terms of rural employment and food production, this article assesses the prospects for transition of peri-urban rural areas, where the economic integration of family farmers and the organization of food supply networks in Tunisia’s major cities are particularly at stake. To do so, it draws on the results of a fieldwork carried out in Mahrès, on the outskirts of Sfax, second largest Tunisian city, where interviews were conducted with the agricultural services and farmers. …”
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Les réseaux transsahariens de la traite de l’or et des esclaves au haut Moyen Âge : VIIIe-XIe siècle by Roger Botte

“…Berbers set up a large “schismatic screen” by creating large commercial cities: such as Zawîla, Wârgla, Tâhert, Sijilmâsa etc. …”
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Les images paysagères autour du thé et de la Chine dans la publicité : quels simulacres de paysage ? by Yun Zhang

“…Based on documentary work and a survey of two areas around the cities of Fujian Province (Wuyi Mountains and Fuzhou), the article considers the genesis of the tea-growing landscape and its image. …”
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Research on Wi-Fi HaLow for the Internet of things by Le TIAN, Yuxiang HU, Weitao HAN

“…The new Wi-Fi standard,named IEEE~802.11ah or Wi-Fi HaLow,is considered as a very promising technology for the Internet of things (IoT),aiming to support large-scale IoT networks in an energy-efficient manner.It is mainly to be used for IoT scenarios,such as smart homes,digital health care,connected cars,industrial process control,logistics ＆amp;asset management,smart cities,agriculture ＆amp; environmental sensors,etc.An overview of the IEEE 802.11ah technology and its recent development were provided.The key features were explored,demonstrating that IEEE 802.11ah is suitable for its target use cases.Moreover,a comprehensive summary and analysis of the related work were conducted.Finally,identifies several open research issues that need to be addressed to fully realize the vision of large-scale and low power Wi-Fi networks for the IoT were discussed.…”
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Préservation du patrimoine bâti et développement durable : une tautologie ? Les cas de Nantes et Angers by Isabelle Garat, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Vincent Veschambre

“…A cross study of Angers and Nantes, cities confronted with important construction pressure in a context of important population growth, tends to show that the convergence of heritage and sustainable development agendas is not obvious. …”
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Megacities as Sources for Pathogenic Bacteria in Rivers and Their Fate Downstream by Wolf-Rainer Abraham

“…The goal of clean water for everyone has to be achieved with a still growing human population and their rapid concentration in large cities, often megacities. How long introduced pathogens survive in rivers and what their niches are remain poorly known but essential to control water-borne diseases in megacities. …”
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Des “hermaphrodites de nationalité” ? Colonisation maritime en Algérie et naturalisation des marins-pêcheurs italiens de Bône (Annaba) des années 1860 à 1914 by Hugo Vermeren

“…Instrumental for the military conquest of Algeria, the Italian fishermen were considered essential not only for the fishing industry in this area but also for peopling port cities such as Bône. From the 1860s onwards, the official policy of pairing French sovereignty on land with the privilege of fishing in territorial waters aimed at naturalizing and settling these fishermen, but, in fact, it encouraged the trafficking of identity papers that would help them bypass rules that became more and more stringent. …”
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Městská správa v době nacistické okupace. Příčiny a důsledky vzniku Velké Ostravy v roce 1941 by Lubomír Nenička

“…The aim of this paper is to show how the occupation authorities affecting the life of the Czech population in the cities of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. …”
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