Public action, like research, is becoming increasingly interested in the relationship between cities and energy. This thesis focuses on the ways in which energy network operators participate in the development and implementation of local energy policies and in the capacity of urban political stakeho...

Public action, like research, is becoming increasingly interested in the relationship between cities and energy. This thesis focuses on the ways in which energy network operators participate in the development and implementation of local energy policies and in the capacity of urban political stakeho...

International audience

The need for basic services (water, energy, financial services, housing, etc.) for people in developing countries to be covered via the private sector is essential if we are to try to reduce poverty. However, ‘traditional’ private funding does not spontaneously focus on these sectors, not least beca...

The Iberoamerican Virtual Foundation (http://fuvia.org) is dedicated to providing e-learning solutions to universities and other institutions that may require it. It is develops a pedagogical, methodological and technological online High School model based on WEB2 tools, which could be easily replic...

In this article, we report on the creation and early development of a citizens’ Wi-Fi network in southern France. This amateur, free and self-managed computer network appears to be doubly marginal. First of all, it develops alongside the dominant commercial offers of internet access. It then relies...

The IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) architecture is the key control for next generation networks (NGN). IMS gives network operators the opportunity to extend their services, including voice and multimedia communications and deliver them in new environments with new goals. Its security is paramount, es...

The division of tasks and competences between the different institutional levels has been the subject of many debates in recent decades. The current public finance crisis increases expectations for the reform of the federalist system. Each level hopes to shift the burden of public service provision...

National audience

‘titrebSummary’/titrebThis document assesses the importance of border and non-border policies for global economic integration. The study focuses on four broad lines of guidance: remove explicit restrictions on trade and FDI; promoting internal competition; improve the responsiveness of the labour ma...

En 2009, La République de Serbie a adopté la loi sur l’emploi et l’assurance-chômage qui régit le domaine de l’emploi et des droits à l’assurance-chômage. Il faut souligner que la Serbie a adopté le modèle de l’Agence fédérale pour l’emploi allemande selon lequel, le service national de l’emploi app...

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the elaboration of a common European concept of public service. Adopting an historical perspective, this research tries to identify the main similarities and differences in the processes of construction of four areas of activity - police, compulsory educati...

The concept of ecosystem services – benefits supplied to human societies by ecosystems- is a fast spreading concept, both in scientific and political arenas. Because of this success, this concept is more and more used as a robust and stabilised concept, with a lack of recognition of the high uncerta...

the French National Library has as one of its objectives the creation of a new service for the provision of data for research purposes. This service is the subject of the Corpus research programme, set out in the four-year research plan 2016-2019 and carried out by the Directorate for Services and N...

The implementation of the New Public Management requirements within the public sphere is reflected in particular in the movement of borders between public and private spheres in the provision of public services. Functions initially carried out on a time and means basis may be the subject of public-p...

To provide personalized services to users in pervasive environments, we should consider both user's privacy, trust and security requirements. Traditional authentication and access control mechanisms are not able to adapt their security policies to a changing context while insuring privacy and trust...

Environmental stakes are partially tackled in European Agricultural Policy by promoting changes in farmers’ practices through agri-environmental measures (AEM). In France, these measures are implemented in various types of contracts between farmers and government agriculture offices. The rationale o...

Tax tool enables states to mobilise resources to invest in health, education, housing, social protection, water and electricity supply or transport infrastructure, all policies essential to the realisation of the rights recognised in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...

Lexbase No N4492ABY National audience

The globalisation process, since the end of the 20th century, has led to a new industrial logic, guiding the agricultural sector in Pampa with the presence of transnational agro-industrial enterprises, changing economic, social and cultural, local and regional structures by increasing areas for conv...

discussions on the social protection of people working through digital service delivery platforms focus on the need to protect them even if they are not linked to an employer by an employment contract. The precarious nature of their situation arises when they depend for their subsistence on one or a...

In Europe, for three decades, taking account of environmental issues in agricultural policies has been partly reflected in the design of agri-environmental measures (EAMs) to promote change of practice. In France, these measures have been mobilised in different models of contracts with farmers, movi...

What is an « architectural model » ? To what extent can « architectural models » be distinguished from heat science models, from fluid mechanics models, from biological models, but also from models in sociology, anthropology or history of architecture ? Can we define, found and implement a specific...

The potential value of tropical agroforests as a model for ecological intensification of agriculture is a subject of increasing interest. Tropical agroforests are agroecosystems characterized by high plant diversity and a complex spatial structure of individuals. With their forest-like structures, a...

Due to human-driven environmental changes, planet Earth has entered the new Anthropocene era, with major impact on biological diversity recognized as the sixth mass extinction period. The concepts of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) have risen to objectify and measure the human impacts on ec...