Calls for papers

(Announcement Calenda 1172600)

For its ninth issue, the Revue internationale environnementale semestrielle (RIES) from ASPROBIO AGM (an association for the protection of biodiversity and the adoption of marker gestures) invites us to reflect on and explore the highlights of current environmental events. The magazine therefore invites readers to explore and question the environmental news of the last six months and the following six months. Papers on recent world events are welcome. Papers may address the topics listed or any other subject, depending on scientific disciplines and methods. They may cross several axes.

(Calenda announcement 1176515)

This special issue of Belgéo attaches importance to time (past, present and future) to see how the context of ecological and climatic crises, characteristic of the Anthropocene, is renewing or not the management, governance, uses and development of water, watercourses, wetlands and flood-prone areas.

(Calenda announcement 1174822)

The world is in the midst of a "polycrisis", a tangle of crises that spans global systems. The term "polycrisis" illustrates how global crises are interconnected, intertwined and mutually aggravating. If this concept is used with greater clarity and precision than has been the case to date, it could provide essential new insights into our current situation. For this reason, the European University of Valencia is calling for papers on the following topics: conceptual approaches to polycrisis, the impact of polycrisis on the economy, artificial intelligence in the context of polycrisis, new inequalities generated by polycrisis, legal and political responses to the challenge of polycrisis, the environment as cause and "victim" of polycrisis, and the impact of polycrisis on security and human rights.

(Calenda announcement 1176515)

This special issue of Belgéo attaches importance to time (past, present and future) to see how the context of ecological and climatic crises, characteristic of the Anthropocene, is renewing or not the management, governance, uses and development of water, watercourses, wetlands and flood-prone areas.

(Calenda ad 1173727)

Smart grids are often seen as decision aids for defining electricity supply and demand levels to guide energy trajectories. They reflect the combination of digital transition and energy transition, enabling real-time management of electricity supply. They are all the more essential given the intermittent nature of renewable energy production. As early as 2011, the European Commission saw smart grids as the backbone of a low-carbon energy future. But the success of the energy transition depends on the relevance of the energy policies implemented, and on consumer acceptability. In this sense, the energy transition is also the transition of a socio-technical system. This call for papers examines the social reception of smart grids, the perception of their uses and their deployment model. This special issue is intended to illustrate the wide range of social science research (action research, fundamental research, participatory research) into existing systems and networks.

(Announcement Calenda 1178063)

The Association Nationale des Conseillers pour l'Architecture (ANCA) is organizing, with its partners, a study day in February 2025 on the new label "Architecture Contemporaine Remarquable" (ACR). The purpose of this call for papers is to solicit proposals for contributions to this day from all institutions and individuals interested in this subject.

(Announcement Calenda 1169013)

Organized annually by a team of doctoral students from the Ruralités and CITERES laboratories (DATE team), this year's doctoral students' day will be devoted to the notions of territorial development, transition and adaptation. These concepts are closely linked in an era of global change and the challenges they underpin, particularly in view of the climatic upheavals affecting our societies worldwide, which are forcing us to rethink our ways of understanding and practicing the territory.

(Announcement Calenda 1169572)

Issue 10 of the journal Dérivations will return to the question of housing. As numerous works in the field of critical geography have shown, the growing difficulties of access to housing are mirrored by the growing influence of the financialization of land ownership. This situation invites us to question the foundations of our conceptions of housing and property. The existence of a constitutional "right to housing" immediately highlights the collective nature of this issue. Added to this are ecological issues, such as limiting the urbanization of natural land and reintroducing biodiversity into densely populated areas. In short, the need to occupy space more sparingly and in a way that is more shared between humans and non-humans introduces new constraints and challenges in the way housing can occupy (or not occupy) space.

(Calenda announcement 1171145)

The omnipresence of calls for projects (CFPs) is in stark contrast to the small number of scientific studies on this public policy instrument. French political scientists and sociologists have paid less attention to the rise of calls for projects in public action, the reasons for using this instrument, the work involved in drawing up and responding to calls for projects, and the methods used to select the winners. The same is true of questions relating to the nature of calls for projects and their parameters, which have received little attention from legal experts and specialists in administrative and management sciences. These are all blind spots in research that the current issue of RFAP aims to fill.

(Calenda announcement 1176515)

This special issue of Belgéo attaches importance to time (past, present and future) to see how the context of ecological and climatic crises, characteristic of the Anthropocene, is renewing or not the management, governance, uses and development of water, watercourses, wetlands and flood-prone areas.