Volume 30, Issue 1, July 2020, Pages 35–44
Jean Rufin MUNKUOMO GONZALEZE1
1 Professeur de l’écologie, Université Pédagogique Nationale, RD Congo
Original language: French
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Urban ecology is a source of hope for the urban planning of the future, we can say that this discipline and its practices are innovative in the realization of the project of sustainable cities. Indeed, like ekistics, urban ecology also fits, prima facie, in the spirit of the Athens Charter (1933) and Agenda 21 (1992) by their aim modernist of the city and by their push for the start of the greening of our current cities for a sustainable urban future. Unfortunately, urban ecology in Africa, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo is confronted with several predictable or unpredictable situations which complicate its task in its mission of achieving the sustainable city. These challenges include: poverty, uncontrolled population growth, the failure of regulatory information and poor governance, etc.Faced with the various forms of vulnerabilities, it is urgent today to think of a sustainable development of these urban areas.
Author Keywords: Urban ecology, Sustainable development, Sustainable city, Town planning.
Jean Rufin MUNKUOMO GONZALEZE1
1 Professeur de l’écologie, Université Pédagogique Nationale, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Urban ecology is a source of hope for the urban planning of the future, we can say that this discipline and its practices are innovative in the realization of the project of sustainable cities. Indeed, like ekistics, urban ecology also fits, prima facie, in the spirit of the Athens Charter (1933) and Agenda 21 (1992) by their aim modernist of the city and by their push for the start of the greening of our current cities for a sustainable urban future. Unfortunately, urban ecology in Africa, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo is confronted with several predictable or unpredictable situations which complicate its task in its mission of achieving the sustainable city. These challenges include: poverty, uncontrolled population growth, the failure of regulatory information and poor governance, etc.Faced with the various forms of vulnerabilities, it is urgent today to think of a sustainable development of these urban areas.
Author Keywords: Urban ecology, Sustainable development, Sustainable city, Town planning.
Abstract: (french)
L’écologie urbaine constitue une source d’espoir pour l’urbanisme du futur, l’on peut dire que cette discipline et ses pratiques sont novatrices dans la concrétisation du projet de villes durables. En effet, à l’instar de l’ékistique, l’écologie urbaine s’inscrit également, de prime abord, dans l’esprit de la charte d’Athènes (1933) et de l’Agenda 21 (1992) par leur visée moderniste de la ville et par leur coup de pousse pour le démarrage de l’écologisation de nos villes actuelles pour un avenir urbain durable. Malheureusement, l’écologie urbaine en Afrique, particulièrement en République Démocratique du Congo est confrontée à plusieurs situations prévisibles ou imprévisibles qui lui compliquent la tâche dans sa mission de réalisation de la ville durable. Parmi ces défis, l’on peut citer: la pauvreté, la poussée démographique incontrôlée, la défaillance de l’information régulatrice et la mauvaise gouvernance, etc.Face aux différentes formes de vulnérabilités, il est aujourd’hui urgent de penser à un développement durable de ces milieux urbains.
Author Keywords: Ecologie urbaine, Développement durable, Ville durable, Urbanisme.
How to Cite this Article
Jean Rufin MUNKUOMO GONZALEZE, “Contraintes et défis de l’écologie urbaine en République Démocratique du Congo,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 35–44, July 2020.
