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Mobility and Environment : the European ambiguity

Yves Crozet

17/05/2019

Under the COP 21 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the European Union has committed itself to significantly reducing CO2 emissions, in particular from transport. By 2030, transport, which accounted for 60% of the EU’s emissions in 2014, is expected to reduce its emissions by 30% when compared with 2005 levels. However, this objective seems very ambitious in the light of recent developments. Although emissions fell in 2009-2011 due to the economic downturn, they subsequently picked up…

Thematics : Policies

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The flying less movement

Javier Caletrío

19/07/2018

Compared to the cacophony of disparate voices praising the virtues of driving less, cycling and walking, calls for rethinking our flying habits have until recently been few and far between. Yet the number of advocates of ‘flying less’ has been steadily growing for more than a decade. As their voices begin to echo further afield, they have turned what was until recently a rather niche debate into a movement reshaping the way we think of air travel. Who are these people and what is their message?

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Robert Smithson and the gold rush

Guillaume Logé

17/07/2018

It is alongside a highway under construction that we find Robert Smithson, whose work we analyzed in the previous post . Where does this long expanse of asphalt the construction equipment is unfurling actually lead? What does it tell us about the way we develop? What drives us to build it?

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Future London: Sustaining the Unsustainable? A Book Review

16/07/2018

In November 2014 I visited the launch of the book “Sustainable London? The Future of a Global City” co-edited by Loretta Lees (University of Leicester) and Rob Imrie (Goldsmiths, University of London). One thought was repeated by most speakers: “sustainable development” discourse in London on closer examination turns out to be about “sustaining the unsustainable”.

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Manifesto : Preparing the mobility transition

Mobile Lives Forum

16/07/2018

As the Mobile Lives Forum's website goes live, we present you our manifesto.

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Que peut apporter l'art sur les études de la mobilité ?

Mobile Lives Forum

16/07/2018

Le croisement entre démarches scientifique et artistique donne lieu, depuis quelques années, à un nombre croissant de réflexions et de réalisations. Ces investigations se situent essentiellement dans le champ des mathématiques, de la physique ou de la biologie. On compte toutefois quelques mobilisations de l’art dans le champ des sciences humaines et sociales, pour sonder des phénomènes urbains aux côtés des méthodes plus classiques de la géographie et de la sociologie par exemple.