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Rainwater harvesting, alternative to the water supply in Indian urban areas : The case of Ahmedabad in Gujarat

Amiraly, Akil; Prime, Nathalie; Singh, J.P. - HAL - 2004

Water scarcity is a characteristic of north-western states of India, such as Gujarat. Over time, the continuous …

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BASIC effect on global climate governance. Power changes and regime shifts

Berthaud, Pierre; Voituriez, Tancrède - HAL - 2013

the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) in this indeterminacy. Mobilising the analytical tools of …

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Research universities, technology transfer, and job creation: what infrastructure, for what training?

Brodhag, Christian - HAL - 2013

Technology transfer and innovation are considered major drivers of sustainable development; they place knowledge and … universities, and how they can interact with key actors and institutions involved in 'innovation ecosystems'. Considering various … approaches of innovation and institutional analysis design (IAD), it proposes an institutional model of innovation where …

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ON THE COORDINATION OF THE EUROPEAN AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL AND WATER INTERNALIZING POLICIES

Martin, Elsa; Stahn, Hubert - HAL - 2009

The point of departure of this work is the lack of coordination of European environmental internalizing policies. At the national level, while the water authority generally has to internalize the negative externalities of water extraction, the agricultural one aims at encouraging environmentally...

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Assessing and ordering investments in polluting fossil-fueled and zero-carbon capital

Lecuyer, Oskar; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien - HAL - 2013

Climate change mitigation requires to replace preexisting carbon-intensive capital with different types of cleaner capital. Coal power and inefficient thermal engines may be phased out by gas power and efficient thermal engines or by renewable power and electric vehicles. We derive the optimal...

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The geography of innovation : challenge to technology policy within regions

Fadairo, Muriel; Massard, Nadine - HAL - 2009

The "Geography of Innovation" is based on the desire to give empirical foundations to the explanations behind the … pronounced spatial polarisation of the innovation activities. It focuses on an attempt to measure the spatial dimension of … survey this empirical literature in order to highlight the main results interesting for the innovation policy. This analysis …

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Sustainable Development: Elements for its interpretation.

Coto, María José Asensio; Moreno, Olga Minguez - HAL - 2007

The contents and scope of Sustainable Development, as a model for the development towards which the international community wants to move forward, is the object of multiple interpretations. That way both, diagnosis of sustainability and the design, execution and assessment of actions aimed to...

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The Institutionalisation of Multi-level Changes: Sustainable Development, Values and Territory

Plumecocq, Gaël - HAL - 2013

innovation are incremental and create marginal organisational changes, in part icular, within local governments. However, some …

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The effect of Participation in the Development of Local Agenda 21 in the European Union.

Lorenzo, José Manuel Prado; Sanchez, Isabel María Garcia - HAL - 2008

The different forms of participation or communication within and between public agencies represent one of the five major features of policy implementation which explain why programs do not turn out the way they are expected to. This paper evaluates the advancements and the effect of the...

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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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