Public policies and urban development path issues
The quality of the message conveyed by public policies and the urban development path issues include:
- Measuring "sustainable development" performance in cities and in delegated urban services management companies (Integrated Territorial Economic Approach for the Climate: The economics of local climate action plans).
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The desirable and possible paths for achieving urban sustainability targets. Indeed, the urban fabric is characterised by the cumulative effect of public and private decisions on a territory, determining the possible development paths, but also the irreversibility. These questions are analysed particularly through:
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The instruments, and therefore the quality of the signal given by public policies, enabling developments in the urban fabric with a view to placing cities on sustainable paths. These questions will be approached particularly through:
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analysis of the urban section of climate change mitigation and adaptation challenges and initiatives in California (laws AB32 et SB375),
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the study of Territorial Climate Plans in France and elsewhere in the world,
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