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The Bush Administration's climate proposal : rhetoric and reality ?
Blanchard, Odile - HAL - 2003
The paper examines the Bush Administration's climate mitigation proposal.The Bush Administration'swait-and-see policy reflects some fundamental aspects of the U.S. governance of its economy, such as the pressure of specific interest groups, the unilateralism of the country, the reluctance to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791558
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META-CDM : Multimodal, Efficient Transportation in Airports and Collaborative Decision Making
Laplace, Isabelle; Marzuoli, Aude; Feron, Eric - HAL - 2014
Be it snow, volcanic ash or strikes, crisis events impose high costs on the air transportation system and society. Airlines have progressively learned to mitigate the irregular operations arising from such events through procedures such as Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898727
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How The Simplification of Work Can Degrade Safety: A Gas Company Case Study
Blazsin, Hortense; Guarnieri, Franck; Martin, Christophe - HAL - 2013
Work is focused on a gas company that wishes to develop a better understanding of its safety culture and identify potential enhancement opportunities. The hypothesis that emerged from an exploratory phase of work suggests that the corporate restructuring initiated four years ago, which has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898775
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Resilience of groundwater dependent farming systems in a global change context: conceptual framework and empirical study in Morocco
Rinaudo, Jean-Daniel; Castel, Auérlien; Faysse, Nicolas - HAL - 2013
This communication presents a framework to analyse the resilience of irrigated farms in Morrocco. It first presents a … conceptual framework to analyse resilience at the farm level. The framework is then applied to a sample of farmers which were … and plan actions needed to enhance their resilience, others would only call for State intervention or even consider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734232
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Multimodal, efficient transportation in airports and collaborative decision making
Marzuoli, Aude; Laplace, Isabelle; Féron, Éric - HAL - 2013
Be it snow, volcanic ash or strikes, crisis events impose high costs on the air transport system and society. Airlines have progressively learned to mitigate the irregular operations arising from such events through procedures such as Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) for traffic flow and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820409
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Resilience of groundwater dependent farming systems in a global change context: conceptual framework and empirical study in Morocco
Rinaudo, Jean-Daniel; Castel, Aurélien; Faysse, Nicolas - HAL - 2014
This communication presents a framework to analyse the resilience of irrigated farms in Morrocco. It first presents a … conceptual framework to analyse resilience at the farm level. The framework is then applied to a sample of farmers which were … and plan actions needed to enhance their resilience, others would only call for State intervention or even consider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820648
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EVI and its Use. Design of an Economic Vulnerability Index and its Use for International Development Policy
Guillaumont, Patrick - HAL - 2011
As an answer to a need expressed by the UN General Assembly an Economic Vulnerability Index (EVI) has been defined by the Committee for Development Policy. The present paper, which refers to this index, first examines how a structural economic vulnerability index can be designed, in particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805951
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Implementing the Clean Development Mechanism in Vietnam: potential and limitations
Nguyen, Nhan Thanh; Ha-Duong, Minh; Greiner, Sandra; … - HAL - 2011
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in Vietnam is used way below its full potential. In spite of efforts to further CDM projects in the recent years, Vietnam still lags behind the comparable neighboring countries in term of registered CDM projects. Especially, though 2008 and 2009 have seen a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009402117
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European climate -- energy security nexus: A model based scenario analysis
Criqui, Patrick; Mima, Silvana - HAL - 2012
In this research, we provide an overview of the climate-security nexus in the European energy sector, through a model based analysis of scenarios produced with the POLES model. The scenarios describe the consequences of different degrees of GHG emission constraint, at world level, but also for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422121
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Low climate stabilisation under diverse growth and convergence scenarios
Criqui, Patrick; Gonzalez-Eguino, Mikel; Markandaya, Anil; … - HAL - 2014
Few papers have analysed the consequences of low climate stabilisation. Most models and scenarios assume that future trends in global GDP will be similar to the growth experienced in the past century, which would imply multiplying current output nineteen-fold in this century. However, natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899107