The research projects
Saharan migration: the truth a far cry from popular myths
January 2004
Migration from sub-Saharan Africa to North Africa has increased as never before over the past 15 years or so. What routes are the migrants following and how are they settling in North Africa? What social and spatial changes are these new settlement patterns generating? What effects are today’s ...
Seismic hazards and risk prevention in Algeria
June 2003
Earthquakes can have a catastrophic impact in urban areas. In Algeria, following the earthquake that hit Boumerdès on 21 May 2003, scientists from the Grenoble Laboratory of Internal Geophysics and Tectonophysics and the Algerian National Centre for Applied Research in Paraseismic Engineering ...