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We begin with inequalities: the health of the planet and humanity depends on our ability to reduce them. Inequalities lead societies into interrelated crises: environmental, climatic, energetic, agricultural, economic, social, and public health. While certain individuals and groups are disproportionately more affected than others, everyone at all levels of society suffer from negative impacts of inequalities. To improve our understanding of these inequalities, we focus on two main areas: the population and the way in which it consumes the planet; and adaptation to stresses, in particular those induced by socio-environmental problems caused by our global socio-economic system. Our contribution is twofold. First, the articles together highlight the need to better understand the complex sources of inequalities, which we group into four main categories: information; issues of power; good intentions for development and their adverse effects; and systemic questions, particularly those related to land. In addition, there is a need to understand the socio-environmental challenges that arise from inequalities, which are: those related to scientific knowledge; linked to dynamic nature of diverse situations; concern implementation of projects that aim to reduce inequalities; surrounding obstacles; and other challenges that involve issues of vulnerability and justice. Based on these understandings, our second contribution is the exploration of some solutions, examined from local, national, to global scales. Systemic solutions at different scales are integral to tackle inequalities, in order to achieve a more equitable and just world.
Keywords: inégalités, équité, vulnérabilité, défis de compréhension, défis socioenvironnementaux, relation à la nature, relations de pouvoir, solutions, changement climatique, adaptation, inequalities, equity, vulnerability, understanding challenges, socioenvironmental challenges, relationship with nature, power relations, solutions, climate change, adaptation
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The recognition of the “quality of disabled worker” in the French Labor Code has gradually had the effect of normalizing disabilities in the workplace. Disabled workers have acquired increased protection through laws, regulations, and policies for the purpose of obtaining or keeping a job. Requests for recognition are now widely encouraged by all public and private stakeholders in the field of disability. We are therefore witnessing, in France, the plebiscite of a real employment standard, that of "disabled worker", to govern the work situation of people with disabilities. However, the application of this standard finds significant limits regarding the situation of people with a mental disorder or a chronic disease, leading to a reflection on its necessary evolution.
Keywords: Norme d’emploi en France, Employment standard in France, Travailleur handicapé, Disabled workers, Maladies chroniques, Chronic diseases, Troubles psychiques, Mental health disorders
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This paper surveys attitudes toward city building from the foundation of cities in colonial America to the present day in the United States. It treats the activity of city making and mending in terms of modal behaviour and institutions, not the iconography of cities nor their reputation among prominent intellectuals. It is ultimately concerned with whether capitalized social change tends to render the forms of urban society obsolete much as "progress" outmoded rural society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.