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As a result of these meetings, the EnsaÉco network wished to publish its first scientific work. The challenge of the publication was to promote diverse research projects, enhance knowledge-crossing across researchers, contribute to the development of innovative research and re-establish links between researchers, practitioners and citizens.

Using architectural, urban and landscape research material, EnsaÉco’s scientific committee identified several challenges of ecological transition in response to climate change. This question has been tackled following three general axes, voluntarily open to all disciplines, covering a variety of issues:

 – The urban dimension: this axis focuses on bioclimatic management in an urban context: the dense city, the urban heat island (UHI), the plants in the city, transportation policies, or rehabilitation standards.

 – The territorial dimension: this axis proposes to shift the focus from the specifically urban question to examine the relationships between the city and the problem of peri-urbanization, particularly exploring the way in which vernacular cultures in rural areas have an heuristic power for the development of architectural models likely to better respond to the challenges of ecological transition. The agricultural question is also key to this axis, as well as the relationship between the territory and the sea.