Description
Penmarc'h town council invites you to a new conference at the Cap Caval hall, devoted to the greening of town planning policies.
Agnès Bastin, senior lecturer in urban engineering at the Université Gustave Eiffel, will be leading this meeting alongside Josselin Tallec, senior lecturer at the Université Bretagne Occidentale in Brest. Together, they will be shedding practical, up-to-date light on the challenges of the ecological transition in regional planning.
This conference is part of the cycle of conferences dedicated to climate change, organised for the fourth year running by the town of Penmarc'h and steered by the scientific committee headed by Philippe Davy, director of research at the CNRS.
How can planners make planetary limits count?
Town planning, i.e. building or transforming inhabited spaces, is a materials- and energy-intensive activity that destabilises the environment. The technical and economic model on which urban development is based today is fuelled by the growing consumption of resources (soil, materials, energy, water, etc.). This model is being strongly challenged by global ecological changes. Those involved in urban planning are looking at ways of ensuring that their activity fits in with planetary limits: how can ecological functions be factored into planning decisions? This presentation is based on the collective research project Ecomodam, which brings together urban planners, ecologists and technical sociologists. It will first look at the contribution of urban planning to overcoming global limits, and then look at the greening of planning practices and metrics, based on an experiment carried out in Miramas (13).
The aim of this conference is to provide a few keys to understanding the issues facing Penmarc'h and, more broadly, many coastal areas today. It will look at how the greening of town planning and urban development is leading to a renewal of professional practices and expertise in order to better anticipate environmental risks, limit social and territorial vulnerabilities, and support fairer and more resilient transitions.
