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rumor recherches urbaines au moyen-orient… et ailleurs menu aller au contenu accueil à propos crédits – auteur eric verdeil (fr/en) publications d’eric verdeil atlas of lebanon: new challenges laisser un commentaire very happy to announce the release of this english translation of atlas du liban. les nouveaux défis (2016). please note that this it also includes a few chapters deemed most interesting and still (historically) relevant from the first version of the atlas du liban. territoires et society (2007). an online version will soon be released too. this english version owes much to claire gillette, who not only was the cartographer of the 2016 edition, but who also coordinated the lengthy and technical adaptation of the maps in english and translated the bulk of the text (outside of the introduction and the conclusion which are new and special to this edition). here is the full reference and an abstract of the book: éric verdeil, ghaleb faour et mouin hamzé (eds), claire gilette (cartography), 2019, atlas of lebanon: new challenges , beyrouth: presses de l’ifpo (publishers info: http://www.ifporient.org/978-2-35159-747-7/ ) after fifteen years of reconstruction in a relatively peaceful environment spanning the years 1990 to 2004, lebanon has experienced successive violent political events resulting from complex entangled internal and external struggles. the syrian crisis and its political, economic and demographic consequences on lebanon have increased these tensions. this atlas sheds light on these new challenges and adds new data that complete the analyses already published in the atlas du liban. territoires et société (atlas of lebanon. territories and society) released in 2007 by the same research team. some of its components are included in this edition. beyond the international regional crisis and the population movements, it takes into account lebanon’s socio-economic dimensions, the environmental issues linked to uncontrolled urbanization and to natural risks, as well as conflicts due to local territorial management. this atlas is the result of a collaborative endeavor between french and lebanese researchers. it uses a geographical approach that puts in the foreground a spatial analysis of social and natural phenomena. public sources are scarce in lebanon, especially at the local scale. they are sometimes less reliable and difficult to access. it is particularly the case for the lebanese census data, conversely data are abundantly available on the refugees population, which is less known than the population of refugees. international data help compare lebanon to its neighbors. thematic data produced by some ministries are helpful to provide a detailed view regarding specific domains. analyses processed on aerial and satellite images have produced essential data on urbanization and environment. local thematic fieldwork surveys have provided additional data. the book consists of seven chapters. the first one deals with the territorial state-building seen in the light of regional geopolitics, and emphasizes internal violence and the reemergence of militias and armed groups that fight each other and the state army. lebanon is once again perceived as a territory divided between multiple allegiances. the second chapter is devoted to the analysis of population dynamics, despite the lack of reliable data whose sources are subject to discussion. it includes analyses of internal population flows, the lebanese diaspora, and the assessment of syrian refugees’ influx. the third chapter shows the fragility of the lebanese economic model. its dependency on foreign investments and on the remittances of the diaspora, as well as the deadlocks of industry and agriculture, which aggravate social imbalances. the fourth chapter is an assessment of urbanization in the country, which has increased by 80% in surface in twenty years at the expense of natural spaces and agriculture. the shore is highly coveted and widely artificialized and damaged. multiple signs of environmental degradation are examined in chapter five. they seem to announce the global climate change and its local effects. in addition to that, there is a direct link between massive urbanization and many risks, measured and mapped in an increasingly detailed way. chapter six tackles the dysfunctional public services that exploit natural resources: water and energy supply, both marked by massive shortages, and the management of solid waste hit by a serious crisis. the seventh and last chapter studies the mutations of the local territorial management, which is marked by the retreat of the state, if not its marginalization, and the rise of other actors, notably municipalities, local powers and also civil society organizations. cette entrée a été publiée dans non classé le 3 juin 2019 par eric verdeil . sustainable urbanization in the gulf? laisser un commentaire this short article was published in world energy #42 april 2019 eric verdeil since 1987 and the release of the bruntland report about sustainable development, concerns over climate change, biodiversity and other global threats have grown. urbanization is at the core of global anxiety. urban population, as recorded by the un, now reaches 4.2 billion, ie 55% of the total and is expected to grow by 2,5 billion in 2050. this tremendous growth consumes huge level of resources and emits about 75% of world green house gases. cities are a major factor of unsustainability, and the same time cities and urban dwellers increasingly suffer from global environmental changes. gulf cities are no exception. record breaking temperatures in kuwait in 2016 highlighted the unbearable summer heats gulf cities are facing and will have to cope with. sea-level rise or extreme rainy events also might affect the future of cities in this region. continuer la lecture → cette entrée a été publiée dans aménagement , développement urbain durable , énergie , et marquée avec abu dhabi , énergies renouvelables , golfe , gulf , le 23 mai 2019 par eric verdeil . le développement des énergies en tunisie : publications laisser un commentaire j’ai le plaisir de signaler la parution de cet article co-écrit avec laurence rocher dérivé de la recherche collener, conduit sous la direction de alain nadaï et olivier labussière: rocher, laurence, and eric verdeil, ‘dynamics, tensions, resistance in solar energy development in tunisia’, energy research & social science , 54 (2019), 236–44 < https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.04.010 > (accès libre jusqu’au 29 juin, ensuite me demander – une version d’auteur sera prochainement disponible). promotion en faveur du photovoltaïque en tunisie (2011) this article takes a critical look at the management of energy transition, showing that the instrumental approach often favoured in public action is hampered not only by divergent interests, but also by the unexpected effects arising from the implementation of this policy and its instruments. it uses tunisia as a case study by focusing on two instruments (prosol and prosol elec) designed to foster the development of decentralized solar technologies (water heating systems and photovoltaic panels) at the households and small firm level. the success of these instruments in triggering commercial development of these technologies resulted in unexpected effects on intermediary actors, the devices installers, affected by the clogging of the subsidy schemes. these actors implemented several adaptation strategies, such as bypassing or exiting the instrument and politicising the debates around it, leading to several adjustments. the study shows that instruments are the product of a specific local milieu structured by power relations and material traits. it acknowledges that local resistances should not be reduced to orientalist understandings, and stresses the need to go beyond management-focused approaches of energy policies, in order to make way for unexpected transformation processes. j’en profite
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