Invited plenary talk.

Landfills continue to represent the most frequent managerial practice for municipal solid wastes and an increasing and complex problem globally. In certain countries, a transition to an open society and free market is superimposed on the transition to sustainability, resulting in even higher complexity of management. This paper proposes an approach for problem-structuring of landfills in complex transitions: sustainability or unsustainability of

Climate change and resource shortages will force us to transform our economy and society. If we do not break out of the old, unsustainable techno-economic paradigm of the 20th century1, a perfect storm2 looms within decades. Experts from virtually all sectors are now talking about the need for innovation to transform whole industries, ensuring industrial leadership and a leap towards “sustainable growth” in Europe. Now is not the time to cut

Intensifying global urbanization and environmental changes bring about the imperative of sustainable urban development and decisions upon inescapable pressures and risks, but knowledge integration between disciplines is a limiting contextual challenge. This paper proposes a reformulation, in terms of urban risk management, of an earlier developed ontological scenario generation method. The procedure consists of several steps: (i) identification-and-prioritization

A competition has been launched, for young entrepreneurs capable to develop new enteprises (start-up) on water-related issues in a French context (Paris region). The winner will be awarded 10 000 + 10 000 Euros for 1 year, and will be co-incubated at ECONOVING, an International Chair in Generating Eco-Innovation at the University of Versailles, and SAUR water company. Location: near one of the campuses of the University of Versailles. Details in