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The report released in early 2022 by UNESCO’s Global Independent Expert Panel on Universities and the 2030 Agenda (EGU2030, 2022) alerts to the need for a deep transformation of the higher education sector in the service of global sustainability. The second part of the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report on climate change, published on February 28th, reveals the extent of a threat that has significantly worsened. In response to the findings and recommendations, an Alliance of Southeast Asian Universities, from the Mekong countries, will commit to a strategy of openness to the extra-academic world, for knowledge-based actions and solutions for and with all stakeholders. In this region, environmental degradation and uncertainties about future growth prospects require a rethinking of development strategies. To this end, higher education and research institutions must contribute to build the next generation of policy makers for environmental transition and set up a network of experts in sustainability science. It is through the prism of such a paradigm shift for a just transition that knowledge will be able to inform the dialogue on the public policies to be implemented. The operating method proposed by the authors of this article is based on four complementary levers - the production of a critical mass of knowledge, communication, scientific dissemination connected to local societies, and an intensification of capacity building - for the study of environmental transition and inequalities in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
Keywords: transition juste, Alliance des universités, recherche connectée, science de la durabilité, pays du Mékong, Asie du sud-Est, fair environmental transition, Alliance of Universities, connected research, sustainability science, Mekong countries, Southeast Asia
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Contemporary developments are characterized at the same time by a series of economic changes and by a crisis in, international political leadership. The extent to which the density of economic relations has increased is such that a world economy is now a reality. The growing internationalization of the processes of trade and production and the internationalization of business strategies have resulted in a concentration and an oligopolization of the world economy. In the majority of the key development sectors, about ten firms at the most share the market, inducing by that very fact, an increase in specialization and, therefore, the search for a new international division, of work. The age of low-cost energy and raw materials that ensured a marked advantage to the industrialization nations seems at an end. The arrival on world markets of Third-world countries in the process of industrialization constitutes a new challenge. International competition is situated squarely in the economic field and the new international hierarchy is being established in accordance with the capacity of each participant to adapt to these new givens.
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Intégration et adaptation dans une ville de taille moyenne : les réfugiés d'Asie du Sud-Est à Québec
More informationRefugees have a greater tendency to disperse across the entire area of the host country than most immigrants. The author has chosen to examine the process of social integration and cultural adaptation of these newcomers who settle outside major cities, and selects the example of Southeast Asian refugees living in Quebec City. Scattered in space but grouped into various ethnic communities, the refugees present a diversity of profiles when one attempts to characterize their integration and adaptation, the two concepts being clearly differentiated for the purposes of this study.
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Starting with classical geography and throughout its multiple modem versions, the discipline has been influenced by a powerful current of pholosophical idealism which has made it a solid instrument of reactionary powers. The demonstration of the existence of this current is attempted through the analysis of articles written by Vidal de la Blache, Brunhes, Sautter, Morrill, Gould, Berry, Racine; this analysis involves the critique of themes such as equilibrium, harmony, region, landscape, diffusion, models, dualism, perception, mental maps. There follows a proposal to recognize that the foundations of social relations are firstly material, that such is the case also for the spatial conditions and the spatial constraints of their elaboration. Beyond this critique and the concrete proposals for change that result there from, is also questioned the very nature of intellectual work and of the links it entertains with State power.
Keywords: Idéalisme philosophique, géographie, matérialisme historique, marxisme, travail intellectuel, modes de production, capital, pouvoir d'État, Philosophical idealism, geography, historical materialism, marxism, intellectual work, modes of production, capital, State power
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