Das Projekt "Previsional Management of the Urban Environment: Public Policies and Local Dynamics in Intermediary Cities^La gestion previsionelle de l'environnement urbain: politiques publiques et dynamiques locales en villes intermediaires (FRA)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universite de Geneve, Ecole d'architecture durchgeführt. The project wants to provide the local actors and inhabitants with adapted methods for managing community projects. Case studies: Beira (Mozambique), Montero (Bolivia), and Mingora (Pakistan). The first stage of the research has been devoted in Geneva theoretical approaches. The local teams in the south proceeded to a first diagnosis of the case studies. In September a first mission from members of the Geneva staff has visited the three towns taken as case studies. The first results of this mission show the main and most urgent environmental problems: waste management, water supply and air pollution. In the three cases was noted a strong community participation desire in order to find and propose long term sustainable solutions.