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Fire hazard is a "natural" risk whose fight, in France, is organized in a very centralized way. However, it depends on human activities and the threatened values are mainly the real values. So, it has a collective and individual dimension which questions on the allowance equity of the public budgets. In particular because the total costs mutualization tends to develop urbanization in area...
In this paper, I propose an evaluation of the different policy tools implemented in the Building Industry in order to promote waste recycling. We consider that the Building Industry, one of the major waste disposer, is composed of two completely different sectors. As I consider a two-sector based economy, it allows me to put in evidence the most efficient policy tool for each sector.
Mediterranean littoral spaces are subjected to a strong tourist pressure which underlines the issue of conciliation between growth of built-up areas, on the one hand, and safeguarding of environment and agricultural activities, on the other hand. The tensions generated by these contradictory interests are particularly sensitive in Corsica, because a large part of coastal spaces still remain preserved...
Starting from the emergence of the so-called Third Italy, the industrial districts evolution and, more in general, the models of local development the paper elaborates on the concept of identity-based development, which is now an often-mentioned key notion for the development strategy for the regions of the Mediterranean basin. That implies a better understanding of the mechanism of local development...
Prince Edward Island is a region that has historically failed to achieve goals of economic development Questions of how Prince Edward Island can implement economic development leading to the Island's prosperity persist. The Island has a strong identity and cultural assets which include social cohesion, ethics and political institutions as well as a sense of place. These assets can not only help bring...
All relationships of communication are also relationships of power, said Pierre Bourdieu. Words have real effect on social fields. They make believe, they make act. Arbi/Souri is a linguistic couple that we finds it in daily spoken within Tunisian society. This lexicographical dichotomy is used by all social groups.
The use of a particular support for spray-can graffitis, the roadsign, is studied here. In the early seventies as soon as spray-can graffitis spread througout Corsica, roadsigns became great targets for graffitists. Place names put into corsican language and nationalist slogans are the two main themes raised down in the mentioned corpus. During the last decade, contemporaries have pointed out the...
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