'affordances virtuelles et de flow pourraient faciliter la convergence de ces approches et l'émergence d'indicateurs d'évaluation communs. …

We show that the relationship between wealth and economic losses due to natural disasters is strongly linked to … disaster risk. We first build an analytical model that demonstrates how countries that face a low hazard of disasters are …, countries that face a high hazard of disasters are likely to experience first decreasing losses and then increasing ones with …

) to formalize and to teach these techniques? This argumentation will try to show that the concept of technology is …

Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology. Some of this experience on foresight analysis is also been transferred to other …

explain the relationship between the objective and concrete features of technology and the subjective and shifting nature of … the people and organisation within which that technology is deployed. At the cultural and linguistic level the paper will …

Technology has been playing a central role in defense spending or arms-producing countries since World War II. Although … well as public R&D. This technology-centric paradigm results from uncertainties surrounding defense matters and the need to … launching new programs, hence a high level of defense R&D. This explains both an overinvestment in technology, resulting in the …

This paper is about the alignment of technology and modes of organization in infrastructures in the context of their … determine the alignment between organization and technology and should be taken explicitly into account when reforming …

poverty trap. We examine changes in public policies: increasing public intervention on health or environmental maintenance … and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental …