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Conference – Towards the Integrated Environmental Land Management in Central Europe, Katowice-Ruda Śląska, Poland 15-16.04.2019

About Modern cities, especially in Central Europe, face many challenges such as urban sprawl, soil sealing, brownfields or the necessity of protection of natural spontaneous species occurring on degraded areas. Additionally the cities’ administration borders do not reflect physical, social, environmental or cultural links in cities. Therefore functional urban areas are created (FUAs) which constitute spatially continuous settlement systems made up of separate administrative units, ...

MISCOMAR at the Science Festival Katowice

Researchers from IETU were participants of the Silesian Science Festival, which took place at the International Congress Centre in Katowice on 12-14.01.2019. Under the motto "Plants ...

COP 24 – Urban Day

The role of cities in the adaptation to climate change, transformation of post-industrial areas in accordance with the idea of ​​"black to green", decarbonisation of urban and road transport ...

COP24 – Circular economy and climate change

Presentations and debates on the circular economy model were the subject of the Innovation Day, which was organised on December 5, 2019 in the Polish pavilion during COP24. Izabela ...

Dr. Anna Starzewska-Sikorska at ISOCARP Congress

In the city of Bodo, Norway the 54th ISOCARP Congress (International Society of City and Regional Planners) took place, gathering around 500 participants from all over the world. The theme of ...

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