Eco-cities

Dr. Ioan M. Ciumasu is President of the Institute of Innovation for Transition to Sustainability – INTRAS in Paris, France. He holds a magna cum laude PhD from the Technical University Munich. He functioned as visiting scientist at the GSF/Helmholz Research Centre for Environmental Health, Institute of Ecological Chemistry (2001-2004), Neuherberg-Munich, Germany; Scientific coordinator of the Centre of Expertise for Sustainable Exploitation of Ecosystems (CEXDUREC), at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (UAIC) of Iasi, Romania (2005-2010); Assistant Professor/Professeur Associé and Director of the International Professional Master in Management of Eco-innovation, at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) (2010-2013). Since 2010, he has been involved in research-innovation and education networks of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community (Climate KIC); he has served in the selection jury of ACES Awards by Science|Business, and in the board of directors of Observatoire de Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines (OVSQ). His is concerned with environmental technologies and knowledge management methods for urban sustainability and eco-innovation. He works through projects that bring together universities, businesses and governmental bodies into a dynamic of cross-sectoral experimentation: models, scenarios and demonstrators.

Defining urban sustainability.- Systemic risks and urban resilience.- Knowledge generation and decision making.- Brokering pulls and tensions: Scenario concepts.- Experimenting futures: Scenario methods.- Towards a transition management capability.- Learning to fly.- References.