This book describes the issues of recognition of religious diversity in terms of relations, urban public space, public debate, public visibility and social and legal recognition. It suggests thinking about the contemporary situation of plural societies at the crossroads of empirics and norms. It is...

All authors who have collaborated in this thematic file are interested in environmental, social and political issues surrounding urban development in Brazil. The main idea that emerges from all articles is that measures taken by public authorities to address environmental concerns in Brazilian citie...

National audience. This article questions the issues of visibility and invisibility in the construction of socio-political categories. By mirroring the battle of black against racism and that of HIV/AIDS patients against the epidemic, we promote the idea that the socio-political minority groups shap...

Since almost 30 years, public service organisations have taken various steps to modernise. Initially motivated by the need to better manage public money, they are now rather linked to the loss of monopoly and above all to the global economic and financial crisis. For several years, states have incre...

The environment and sustainable development have received unprecedented political and social attention during the five years Sarkozy: proactive statements, ambitious reforms, etc. However, the overall interpretation of reforms and policies should not be limited to an analysis of the proactive politi...

The increasing integration of Web 2.0-based techniques by museums illustrates the profound changes that have taken place in the construction of their relations with the public. The use of these mechanisms, based on a logic of participation, means that visitors, who have traditionally been kept remot...

This paper is an update from an article published in Droit Maritime Français, n° 831 in January 2021, with the permission of the editor Deploying its vision of "Global Britain" in the port sector, the British government plans to create some free ports. In addition to an adapted customs regime, these...

Gender is a powerful factor in the production of space, including public space. It meets gender norms and helps to perpetuate a gender dichotomic and hierarchical society. The School is a place to learn about these gender norms. Despite the republican principles it should convey, the School is there...

Since 2003, more than 400 popular districts categorized as sensitive urban zones and 4 million inhabitants have become part of a program initiated by the Framework Act on Town Planning and Urban Renewal (so-called “Borloo law”). In order to achieve district transformation and social diversity, the p...

Fishing is one of the most important socio-economic activities in the Mediterranean and particularly in the Maghreb. In Algeria, in recent decades it has become a leading employment sector for a large part of the coastal population. Exploitation of the sea is also one of the main animal protein reso...

This special topic poll, fielded February 10-11, 2004, was undertaken to assess public opinion on the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Views were sought on President George W. Bush and his handling of the presidency and issues such as the economy, education, foreign affairs, and hea...

In the eyes of some contemporary authors, camera sciences appear to be a ‘success story’ of state-building. They then embody the first attempt in Europe, at the end of modern times, to systematise the study of public management and to establish a practical administration science, of which Germany wo...

This poll, fielded April 13-14, 1999, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, First Lady Hilla...

In April, 2013, Porter Airlines proposed expanding Toronto’s downtown Island Airport and introducing jets to allow for long-haul flights. Growth plans have been met with a mixture of support and opposition from Toronto residents. Given the important relationship the media has with public understandi...

In recent years, the growth effect of technology has reached many heights, such as the more frequent use of new media platforms, like Twitter, Weibo, and Facebook. The technological revolution has enabled people to communicate across thousands of miles at a greater speed. With such advantages, socia...

The experimental economy is increasingly used in the agricultural economy. This article reports on a Researchers School organised in 2015 by Department SAE2 (Social Sciences, Agriculture and Food, Space and Environment) of the INRA in order to take stock of the work using this method and discuss its...

The disposal of the museum collections in question After two hundred days of closure, at least 1 200 museums open again. Barely open and prepared exhibitions in the meantime substantially renew the offer. But the lack of tourist customers will make it difficult to finance them. And if the collection...

This thesis deals with the issue of travel time reliability. The study of travel time reliability emerges from the fact that in many situations, travel time is random. Many events can change the travel time forecasted by operators or expected by users. Moreover, a tradeoff may exist between time and...

We start from a double hypothesis. First, we propose to consider ambiguity as a structural dimension of the institutional relations where the involvement of the “whoever comes” in the exploration of the problems and complex decisions affecting him, and then we suggest that, in the same situations, t...

While of the long history in common between Brazil and Portugal, there are also many differences and, above all, a great lack of knowledge. The proposal for this article is to provide a contextualisation of the way in which gênery issues have been dealt with in Portugal and, on this basis, to stimul...

among business law firms, global law firms are relatively new and have a special role in legal services. Although they offer a very wide range of legal services on their respective domestic markets, they devote a large proportion of their activities to carrying out major international operations, ma...

This round of Euro-Barometer surveys had for its major focus issues surrounding the European elections. Questions on political party preferences asked respondents which party they felt the closest to, how they voted in their country's last general election, how they would vote if a general election...

on 25 March 2007, the Berlin Declaration formalised the abandonment by the 27 Member States of the European Union of the draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. The aim of this book is to understand the state of European Union law in the context of the institutional and political crisis...

This poll, fielded April 1-5, 2009, is a part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked whether they approved of the way Barack Obama was handling the presidency and issues such...

This thesis for the habilitation to supervise research is built on 11 scientific articles, among which 8 have been published between 2007 and 2011. I present my work on "Supporting multi-attribute decision-making for sustainability : an ecological economic modeling approach". The challenge of sustai...