Being driven by nature, the electrical output of wind power is intermittent rather than controllable. This feature impacts the security of supply on two dimensions related to the short and long term: reliability and adequacy. The technical challenge presented by reliability has been met with...

Ideally, a representative democracy awards a genuine vote to each adult. We study whether this applies in competitive democracies with an election model combining district appor- tionment and proportional representation (PR). Four classic seat allocation rules, including d'Hondt (1882), are...

We tackle the incidence of accidents within the energy supply chain and firstly extend the analysis from severe accidents to smaller ones. We are then able to go beyond fossil fuels technologies and estimate the hazard rate (ratio of casualties to energy) of wind power, the electricity network...

Using an exhaustive administrative database, we assess the impact of extreme weather events over French cities during the last three decades. We identify numerous non catastrophic disasters, thereby improving coverage wrt. the existing literature. Counting residents of cities stricken by a...

We proxy Global Real Economic Activity with the cost of shipping 6 major commodities: crude oil, natural gas, coal, grain, container & airplane parcel. We show that the business cycle decomposition of this newly called BiB indicator tracks very well the business cycle inferred from the world...

We compare human development among 157 countries over one million population. For that task, twelve dimensions of potential happiness are selected using a matching of individual preferences to issues. We detail the construction of an indicator for each dimension using mostly objective data. We...

Joining existing databases of computer characteristics, we build a robust long run indicator for computational services. A regime change occurs between 1981 and 1985 with the advent of personal computing. Since then, the affordability of desktop computing has doubled every 13 months. Storage...

The United Nations Sendai (2015) framework aims to reduce disaster risk. We offer a careful definition and computation of the individual and property risk targets. Selecting the largest and better studied class of “natural disasters” over the period 1970-2018, we show that individual risk is...

Can we measure and/or compare the potential wellbeing that world countries offer to their citizens ? Our positive answer follows 3 stages: identify the relevant issues for citizens, de- fine and compile practical indicators of these and finally aggregate everything into an index to derive a full...