Polismed - Future of Mediterranean Cities
Quando |
dal
19/10/2011
alle
09:00
al 22/10/2011 alle 13:30 |
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Dove | Roma (Italy) |
Persona di riferimento | Cristina Colletti |
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In the past years, a growing number of researchers and practitioners have expanded the understanding of the importance of urban areas for global environmental change. Polismed Project has been leading the way focusing in the Mediterranean region with some of the most attractive demographic and macro-economic growth characteristics worldwide towards a stronger collaboration between academics, decision-makers and practitioners in order to capture the benefits of urbanization and develop ways to mitigate and adapt to global environmental change. The Mediterranean region exhibits some of the highest economic growth rates combined with the fastest population growth and the youngest working population worldwide. Researchers and practitioners in Polismed, focusing on new pathways for the sustainability of current and future urban areas, the impacts of population growth and urbanization on urban areas and the responses of urban areas to those impacts.