Islands are the first to be affected by climate change (CC): their small size, generally low altitudes and external dependence increase their vulnerability to natural, particularly coastal hazards, aggravated by CC (Bertrand and Richard, 2011). Nowadays, the introduction of adaptation to CC is criti...

[ES] On a global level road accidents lead to a large number of deaths and injuries as well as large economic losses due to different factors such as human, vehicle and infrastructure. Conventional roads are highly vulnerable because of the road safety characteristics they have along their journey a...

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The significance of public space in the daily life of residents in two neighbourhoods of the urban periphery of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is examined. The aim is to determine, through case analysis, the impact of these relationship sites on the socio-spatial vulnerability of the most disadvantaged neig...

Paper Prepared for the Migration and Refugee movements in the Middle East and North Africa. The Forced Migration & Refugee Studies Program. The American University in Cairo, Egypt. October 23-25, 2007<br />Disponible à : http://www.aucegypt.edu/ResearchatAUC/rc/cmrs/Pages/meeting.aspx Syria has host...

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International audience This paper examines the implication of financial shocks on firms’ export dynamics in developing economies. To address this question, we use the Exporter Dynamics Dataset, which contains new data on the micro-structure of exports for 34 developing countries between 1997 and 201...

International audience Risk prevention related to complex extended cavities raises often strong economic, social and/or technical issues for local authorities and decision-makers. Remote monitoring offers a median way of vulnerability mitigation. However relevant monitoring of those geohazards calls...

The article of law dated 5 March 2007 regarding legal protection of adults has raised a guideline the issue of protection and autonomy of the protected persons. Conciliation of this double paradoxical injunction - protecting and empowering - gives the law a humanist framework. In order to give capab...

What happens to subjects confronted with a heart attack? The raid of symptoms in the body activates mentalphenomena in order to deal with a threat to the life. The subject living a crisis is a self to protect as oneself, anda self to transform into a suffering self, requiring care. Two levels of del...

International audience INTRODUCTIONIf taken independently from each other, entomological variables and human socio-economic characteristics have clarified the risk of malaria infection in urban area with its uneven spatial distribution, their common explanatory share remains to investigate. Indeed,...

This scientific volume of Habilitation in Diriger des Recherche summarises the work carried out in the four research laboratories where I have carried out my research since the end of the thesis: the Frontier Research Center for Global Change (FRCGC, Yokohama, Japan), the Centre d’Etudes Spatiales d...

The publication presents an evaluation of the ecological role of abandoned agricultural lands which exist around the seven landscape parks in the Łódź Voivodeship. In thirty-nine land abandonment study plots, arranged into thirteen groups, agrophysical and agrochemical analyses were conducted as wel...

The aim of this article is to propose a methodology for formalising maritime risks through their spatial and temporal characteristics. Maritime space is subject to risks, whether anthropogenic (oil spills, collisions between ships, maritime piracy, etc.) or natural (storms, icebergs, reefs, etc.). T...

One of the major challenges of this century is represented by climatic changes and their influence upon the environment. In the case of Romania, the orographic barrier plays the most important role in the delineation of surplus or deficient areas as refered to humidity. In the western and central re...

climate change is now a reality at both international and local level. The focus of recent work is preferably on analysing the consequences of climate change. This article seeks to question and describe the impact of climate change in the mountainous regions of the Alps. A first area of reflection c...

The next session of the BRICs seminar of the FMSH and EHESS will take place on Thursday 24 November 2016, from 18 to 20, room 2, at the Rdc of the “France” building, 190-198 avenue de France, 75013 Paris (metro: Quay of the Gare). It will receive: Philippe Hugon Afriques — between power and vulnerab...

National audience The agricultural typologies of the French-speaking municipalities show that in areas with urban influence, farm reconfigurations are rapid and significant in terms of manpower, employment and land footprint (SEGESA-DRIAAF). The Green Belt and its fringes present an ambivalent situa...

What is a nurse in 2012? It is a presence at the heart of our privacy, care for our vulnerability, support until the whole of our lives and even after. This immemorial care remains the basis of the job. It is a care that calls for the past to look for a future, empathy and proxaemia trying to erase...

The urban agglomeration of Lima and Callao (9 million inhabitants) is preparing for a major earthquake that could cause a major crisis. In the face of this upcoming crisis, what knowledge can be produced on the vulnerability of urban areas? This research was carried out at the EDYTEMde laboratory at...

Muriel Rebourg, A search for vulnerable persons under French private law, in ‘Vulnerability in international, European and comparative law’, (ss. Dir. ss. Dir. A. Boujeka and M. Roccati) PU de Paris Nanterre. Olivier Crasset (2020), Advantages and reversal of self-reliance on home-help in direct emp...

This paper measures the effects of food price shocks on both the level of household consumption per capita and the instability of the household consumption per capita growth rate in developing countries. In this vein, the paper explores the role of aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the...

The value of the “square preé”, i.e. the fortified system that Vauban had conceived, attracted some criticism in the second century. However, this defence system makes it possible to limit the invasion in 1793-1794. The two Treaties of Paris (1814-1815) contributed to the disarticulation of the defe...

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