Results
The project intents to generate the following products:
- Development and application of specific scientific methods and concepts to assess the interplay between climate, energy consumption, agriculture and the urban-rural linkage
- Elaboration and validation of scenarios for future urban-rural development
- Analyses of megacity-specific spatial patterns and processes
- Implementation of four action-research driven pilot projects on Urban Agriculture / exploitation of outcomes
- Tools and guidelines for the Grand Casablanca region / scaling-up I
- Knowledge transfer and transferability / scaling-up II
- Outcomes and recommendations for optimizing the communication in an intercultural, inter- and transdisciplinary project
- Strengthening capacity building & development in research
Prospects of economic success:
- Immediate economic activities of a more resource-efficient and economic-orientated Urban Agriculture
- Development of local economies, for example through the market-oriented production of high quality-food and the provision of additional new urban services for peri-urban tourism and leisure / recreation.
- Strengthening policy issues as the productive use of recycled water
- Scientific & economic connectivity
- Creation of a network of actors
- Identification of further needs for scientific collaboration between Moroccan and German partners to ensure and improve the long-term efficiency of the initiated and implemented developments
- Using the insights identified in the context of the planned research for the development and implementation of other concerted research and development projects
- Identification of potentials for future joint Moroccan-German (private and/or public) ventures, especially in the fields of science and technology, the economy, social engagement and common general policies)
- Joint raising of public funding to implement follow-up benefits for specific technology-based modules
Sectoral Studies
- 1. Analysis of ownership and the land market in Grand Casablanca
Carried out by: Ben Azouz (INAU Rabat) - 2. Analysis of the main forces of the Real Estate Market Development in Grand Casablanca
Carried out by: Abdelaziz Adidi (INAU Rabat) - 3. Analysis of social and economic practices in the rurban area of Grand Casablanca (peri-urban and pure rurale structures), including the informal settlements
- 3.1. The rurbane and agriculture (6 case studies in total)
- 3.1.1. Case Study 1: Ouled Ahmed
Carried out by: Mohammed Mdafai and Abdelaziz Adidi (INAU Rabat)
- 3.1.2. Case study 2: Douar Lahrach, near Dar Bouazza
Carried out by: Mohammed Mdafai and Abdelaziz Adidi (INAU Rabat) - 3.1.3. Case Study 3: Technopol, Airport Casablanca
- 3.3 City and alimentation
Carried out by: Abdelfettah Derouiche (Association Terre & Humanisme Maroc) - 5. Infrastructure and spatial pattern
Carried out by: Mohammed Mdafai (INAU Rabat)
- 7. Great National Strategies for Land Management, Urbanism, Housing and Urban Environment
Carried out by: Majid Mansour (INAU Rabat) - 13. Wastewater in Grand Casablanca: Production, local treatment und reuse
Carried out by: Mohamed Chlaida (Université Hassan II Ben M’Sik) - 14. Classification of urban types based on SPOT imager
Carried out by: Hassan Rhinane (Université Hassan II Aïn Chock) - 15. Down-scaling of climate change projections for Casablanca
Carried out by: Abdelaziz Ouldbba (Direction de la Météorologie Nationale de Casablanca) - 18. Detailed analysis of natural resources, particularly water, in Morocco: Compilation of reports/publications and other relevant information
Carried out by: Fouad Amraoui (Université Hassan II II Aïn Chock) - 19. Classification of agricultural land use based on SPOT imagery
Carried out by: Hassan Rhinane (Université Hassan II Aïn Chock)
- 24. Central wastewater treatment and reuse facilities in Grand Casablanca
Carried out by: Mohamed Chlaida (Université Hassan II Ben M’Sik)
- 25. Potable water supply: status quo and perspectives for 2020
Carried out by: Fouad Amraoui (Université Ain Chock)
- 26. Energy infrastructure, status and future developments and potential of renewable energy
Carried out by: Fouad Amraoui (Université Ain Chock )
