La Défense 2050
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Housing – a major challenge
A major challenge for well-being Without a decent place to live, it is very challenging to become a productive member of our society. The lack of affordable housing means that low income households are more likely to live in bad quality houses, even informal or illegal houses. In 2005, one city dweller out of three … Continue reading
The climate change
Global warming has consequences over how the climate and the thermal machine « Earth » function. Yet, these effects are not proportional given the threshold effects: an increase in the temperature can lead to catastrophic outcomes. There are 3 outbreak thresholds: The release of the methane stocked inside the permafrost (the permanently frozen soil in the North … Continue reading
An increasing pressure over environment
The urban ecological footprint The ecological footprint is a measurment of human demand on Earth’s ecosystems in terms of global hectares (gha)/per person. One hectare represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area needed to regenerate the resources a human population consumes and to absorb and render harmless the corresponding waste IN 2003, … Continue reading
Peak Oil and raw materials
The world’s oil consumption has constantly increased since the middle of the 80′s by 1,5% a year, but an increasing number of geologists forecast that traditional oil deliveries will start to decrease in a few years. Numerous existing oil fields are depleting and fewer new oil sources are discovered. 33 out of the 48 oil … Continue reading
Population ageing
Because the birthrates have decreased, and medical techniques have improved, the older people’s part in the population should increase in our societies. The age pyramid now tends to be reversed, especially in the developed countries. UNO forecasts that by 2030, people over 50 years old will represent half of the Western population. The 50 year … Continue reading
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