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Teaching Sustainable Development Issues: An Assessment of the Learning Effectiveness of Gaming

Blanchard, Odile; Buchs, Arnaud - HAL - 2014

The article aims at assessing the effectiveness of a role-play in addressing two concerns: clarifying the concept of sustainable development and teaching sustainable development issues. The effectiveness is gauged by surveying students to reveal how the game matches a set of "significant...

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Exploring the concept of sustainable development through a simulation game

Blanchard, Odile; Buchs, Arnaud - HAL - 2010

The concept of sustainable development is used in everyday life by the general public, alongside researchers, institutions, and private companies. Nevertheless, its definition is far from being unequivocal. Clarifying the outline of the concept seems necessary. We have created a simulation game...

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Exploring the Concept of Sustainable Development Through Role-Playing

Buchs, Arnaud; Blanchard, Odile - HAL - 2011

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Disability and social security reforms: The French case

Behaghel, Luc; Blanchet, Didier; Debrand, Thierry; … - HAL - 2011

retirement. These routes have exempted French workers from massively relying on disability motives for early exits, contrarily to …-retirement schemes almost non-existent. Yet the role of disability remains interesting to examine in the French case, at least for … underlines that disability routes have often acted as a substitute to other retirement routes. Changes in the claiming of …

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A coherent agri-energy policy to foster social inclusion for peasant families: the role of Petrobras on the João Câmara and Ceará-Mirim sites (state of Rio Grande do Norte)

Drouvot, C.M; Drouvot, H.; Perluss, P.M - HAL - 2010

This article depicts the improvement in living conditions for those families of peasants (the “landless peasants”) who have benefited from agrarian reform (termed “assentamentos” i.e. homesteads) through the creation of farming cooperatives. The farming cooperative examined herein was...

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Energy and climate policies to 2020 : the impacts of the european " 20/20/20 " approach

Stankeviciute, Loreta; Criqui, Patrick - HAL - 2008

Purpose :The study aims to quantify the possible interactions between the three European objectives in the horizon of 2020 : (i) the reduction of 20% of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) (2) the saving of 20% of the European energy consumption and (3) a share of 20% of renewable energies in the...

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Regulating the financial analysis industry : Is the European Directive effective ?

Dubois, M.; Dumontier, Pascal - HAL - 2009

In the recent years, the US and the EC have witnessed the adoption of new regulations focused on financial analysts. This study investigates whether the European regulations, known as the Market Abuse Directive (MAD) changed the distribution of recommendations and increased their credibility...

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Russian and Caspian hydrocarbons: energy supply stakes for the European Union

Locatelli, Catherine - HAL - 2008

The crisis between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 highlights the fragility and instability of transporting gas from the Caspian and Central Asia to Europe via the "Caucasus transit corridor". The feasibility of one of the EU's possible strategies for diversifying its energy supplies might now...

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What beyond oil and gas ? Russian trade specialisation in manufactures

Garanina, Olga - HAL - 2009

The objective of the paper is to study Russia's pattern of specialisation in the manufactures trade since 1998. Russia's global trade balance for manufactures is rapidly deteriorating. However, the trade pattern in manufactures should be differentiated according to Russia's main trading...

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Is this all "Greek" in Europe ? Critical evaluation of the Euro zone policy response to debt crises

Ghani, Shazia - HAL - 2011

Eurozone is going though the worst ever crises since the adoption of the common currency in 1999. In the aftermath of financial crises of 2007, many EU government due to their own fragile banking system and imbalance economic structures persued a debt-spending financing which resulted into a...

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