Introduction. Cairo and sustainability: a provocative issue?

Why was the choice for a topic about sustainable development in Cairo for this new special issue of “Egypte / Monde arabe”, despite all the questions raised by adopting such notion, and the risk of labeling this notion built in the Western countries on a social, economic, political and cultural rea...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
الحاوية / القاعدة:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ema,
المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Barthel, Pierre-Arnaud, Monqid, Safaa
التنسيق: Article ou chapitre numérique
اللغة:Anglais
منشور في: Égypte/Monde arabe 2012
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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الملخص:Why was the choice for a topic about sustainable development in Cairo for this new special issue of “Egypte / Monde arabe”, despite all the questions raised by adopting such notion, and the risk of labeling this notion built in the Western countries on a social, economic, political and cultural reality which appears to be radically different? Indeed sustainability challenges researchers working in such a metropolitan context where the Western approach of the notion may be abusive and inappro...