Working group – Urbanized areas
Objectifs du groupe
Establish and expand an interdisciplinary platform that fosters territorial, collective, and concrete responses to the urgent challenges highlighted by IPCC scientists.
Proposals
- Building on and reinforcing what already exists
- Local structuring of the interdisciplinary research network on cities and urban territories : structuring an interdisciplinary network and ecosystem on the global theme of observing urban territories in transition.
- AST – Action scientifique transverse “Urbanized aeras” financed by the OMP – Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées: support cross-disciplinary scientific activities and extend them to our various laboratories and stakeholders (professionals, institutions, associations, etc.).
- Approach at different scales (metropolises, medium-sized towns, small towns, peri-urban areas… compared with cities in the North and South, etc.).
- And with different dimensions: the transition is itself multi-dimensional (ecological, social, demographic, energy, political, etc.).
The working group leaders
- Nadine Dessay (UMR 228 ESPACE-DEV)
- Aurélie Michel (ONERA-DOTA)
- Najla Touati (LISST, UT2J)
The 2024 action roadmap
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Actions – Laboratory visits
To encourage members of the group to get to know each other and to organize a network around the theme of urban environment observation, the working group regularly organizes visits to laboratories.
Discover the laboratory visits made (58 people involved) :
News
- November 21, 2023 : Workshop at l’Eurékafé to draw up the group’s strategy and guidelines for 2024 (work prior to drafting the roadmap for 2024).
- October 16, 2023, and april 21, 2024 participation to AST in the OMP (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées)’s bi-annual transverse scientific action – dedicated to urban environments, led by Jean-Louis Roujean, which aims to foster scientific exchanges and collaborations (during June 2023).
- Participation in the 4th TEMU (Télédétection pour l’Étude des Milieux Urbains) workshop organized by the THEIA cluster’s “Urban” CES on February 2 and 3, 2023 in Montpellier.
Funded research (internship)
2025
Otipav Métropole
Panorama recherches Climat Urbain
Segmentation morphologique
2024
- 2024 – René Vallecalle’s internship, Toulouse – “Refuge areas in Toulouse. Constitution of a database and cartographic representation” – Collaboration LRA/LMDC/LISST
- 2024 – Renaud Nédélec’s internship, Toulouse – “Comparison of a Local ClimateZones cartography with the evolution and variation of surface temperature for the study of the Urban Heat Island” – Collaboration CEREMA / CESBio
2023
- 2023 – Tio Tinle’s internship ‘TAssess the expertise of members of the Urbanized Environments theme and enable acculturation of research activities.’, L3, financed by O3T
- 2023 – Nils Quinqueton’s internship on the study of the Paléficat district, a territory in agricultural/urban transition, as part of the OPIS project (Observatoire de Paléficat en Images et Sons). This internship was carried out in collaboration between LISST and UMR TETIS. A feedback webinar was organised by O3T.
