Climate change and water resources: Excess, shortage, and pollution by Franck Galland

“…A series of extreme climate events in 2022 had a profound impact on water resources in France and western Europe. Droughts led to water shortages in several areas and were followed by winter storms that caused record flooding.Long-term projections point to significant reductions in the amount of water in rivers and groundwater reserves. …”
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Large-scale computer-mediated training for management teachers by Gilly Salmon, Ken Giles, John Allen

“…In 1995/6 the Open University Business School (OUBS) trained 187 tutors in the UK and Continental Western Europe in Computer Mediated Conferencing (CMC) for management education. …”
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Les statues de lions des églises romanes, des gardiens de pierre entre espace profane et espace sacré by Sylvain Chardonnet

“…From the 11th to the 13th century, the Marche shire (Limousin) provided the largest number of carved lions in the whole of the Western Europe. Stone lions are placed at the entrance of churches and as such materially delimit the sacred area of the ecclesia from the secular space.…”
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Reflections on plague in African history (14th–19th c.) by Gérard Chouin

“…Would we understand and interpret the history of Western Europe or the Mediterranean as we do if we ignored that the plague had occurred? …”
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The manor estate economy ofthe Republic of Two Nations (the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) in the 16th-18th centuries from the Marxist and neo-institutionalist perspectives by Darius Žiemelis

“…Arguments are put forward for the thesis that the manor economy of the 16th-18th centuries in the RTN, affected by Western Europe's developing capitalist relationships, can be qualified neither as a typical feudal economy (which the Western European manor of the Middle Ages should properly be considered) nor as a typical capitalist enterprise. …”
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EAST ASIA - REGIONAL OR GLOBAL FINANCIAL INTEGRATION? by S. V. Nozdrev

“…Currently, among the investment flows that lay ground for financial integration with other regions, the leading place is taken by funds from and to the countries of North America and Western Europe. At the same time, the growth in intraregional investment, especially in terms of assets, significantly exceeds growth from the group of developed countries, the share of participation of the latter in interregional relations is gradually decreasing. …”
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Book spreaders in the towns of Samogitian principality in the XVIII century by Elmantas Meilus

“…At the considered time, Samogitia received the most up-to-date literature from Western Europe. From the circular of 1774, we learn that books were not only sold at special places. …”
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The March to Prussia: The Informative Value of a Peripheral Phenomenon by Werner Paravicini

“… This article not only introduces new sources that underline the importance of the march to Prussia (Preußenreisen) for the nobility of Western Europe at the time, but also highlights the challenges they faced along the way, including encounters with marauders, adverse natural conditions and captivity. …”
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Western European Merchants and the Process of Europeanisation of Russia in XVI Century by T. V. Tchernikova

“…Changes in the position of immigrants from the Western Europe during one and a half centuries are also examined.…”
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Les espaces de l’utopie by Thomas Coste

“…Between the 1890s and the 1930s, around fifty anarchist or naturist communities sprang up in Western Europe. While these experiments have been studied locally, no research has really looked at the global and transnational aspect of this phenomenon. …”
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Western Foreigners on the Russian Service and Royal Doctors in the Time of Ivan the Terrible by T. V. Tchernikova

“…Changes in the position of immigrants from the Western Europe during one and a half centuries are also examined.…”
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Une comparaison de la fragmentation internationale des chaînes d’approvisionnement automobiles allemande et française by Vincent Frigant

“…We show that the two countries organize differently their own supply networks with 1) a selective consolidation or decline according to the place of the part along the value chain and 2) a geographic discrimination of their imports (typically Eastern Europe for Germany and Western Europe for France). We conclude by some suggestions for improving this methodology.…”
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Medieval Naturalia by Chantal Stein

“…The nascent global age at the close of the Middle Ages introduced exotic objects from distant lands into Western Europe. Exotica from the natural world – naturalia – were frequently fashioned into ecclesiastical and seigniorial artifacts and housed in treasuries. …”
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Ferrol y Vigo en 1972. Historia y memoria de dos huelgas generales by José Gómez Alén

“…Its repercussion went beyond Spanish borders and resulted in a broad movement of solidarity in Western Europe. What happened that day became the symbol of the Galician workers' struggle for democracy and is, at present, commemorated by the trade union organizations as the Day of the Galician Working Class and institutionally considered as such by the Galician Parliament.…”
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Illegal cannabis cultivation in Europe: new developments by David Weinberger, Michel Gandilhon, Jalpa Shah, Nacer Lalam

“…Illicit cannabis cultivation is not new to Western Europe. It first emerged on the scene in the 1970s, in the wake of the counter-culture following the 1968 Protests. …”
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Fortaleza, de uma contaminação derivada dos lugares turísticos à transformação dos espaços de moradia em territórios de adoecimento e de morte by Eustogio Wanderley Correia Dantas, Maria Clelia Lustosa Costa, Carlos Lucas Sousa da Silva

“…Following its developments in the central countries of Western Europe and the United States, we analyse what happened in Brazil, with an emphasis on its development in Fortaleza. …”
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The absolutist origin of capitalism by Nicolas Pinsard

“…This paper contributes to the literature on the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Western Europe, with a specific focus on the process of primitive accumulation during France’s absolutism, from the 14th to the 17th century. …”
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Écrits comptables et commerce interreligieux : les cas des registres d'Ugo Teralh de Forcalquier et de la compagnie Datini (xive-xve siècles) by Ingrid Houssaye Michienzi, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

“…The accounting documents, directly issued from the practice of business, allow historians to penetrate at the heart of commercial collaborations between Christians and Jews, and between Christians and Mudéjars, in Western Europe and the Mediterranean Sea in the Late Middle Ages. …”
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USA AND WESTERN EUROPEAN SANCTIONS POLICY WITH RESPECT TO RUSSIA by I. Aksenov

“…The implementation of the sanctions policy of the United States and Western Europe in relation to the Russian Federation has been analyzed. …”
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La emigración de españoles al extranjero (2002-2011): dimensiones y características geodemográficas by ROMERO-VALIENTE, Juan M.

“…The principal findings and conclusions of this work are: the magnitude of the flow is very superior to the one that the Spanish statistics indicate, concerning the double; the women, the young persons and born abroad have a singular leadership in this process; the principal areas of origin of emigres are both big urban Spanish agglomerations (Madrid and Barcelona); western Europe and Latin America are the principal areas of destination, emphasizing as area recipient the United Kingdom.…”
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