Quand l’édifice vacille : stupeur et tremblements dans la gestion du risque après le séisme du Teil by Mathias Roger, Stéphane Cartier

“…In this article, we follow seismic risk experts in France in their efforts (1) to make sense of a bewildering event and (2) to draw lessons for the protection of conventional constructions and high-risk facilities (chemical and nuclear). …”
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Streamlining Resiliency: Regulatory Considerations in Permitting Small Scale Living Shorelines by Thomas T. Ankersen, Alexandra Barshel, Valerie Chesnut

“…Because living shorelines are considered environmentally beneficial, several agencies have coordinated efforts to reduce the regulatory burden required to construct them. …”
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Less Market, Equal Family: Welfare and Caregiving in the Ecuador of the Citizens’ Revolution by Analía Minteguiaga, Gemma Ubasart-González

“…In light of contemporary efforts of some governments in the region to distance themselves from the neoliberal paradigm, this article aims to study the politics of welfare and care implemented by the Rafael Correa government. …”
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Trust, Power, and Partnership: A Study of the Evolution of Sweden’s Bilateral Economic Partnership with Post-Apartheid South Africa by Tove Sternehäll

“…Focusing on developments within the South African economy from a Swedish perspective, the article studies Sweden’s ambitions and efforts to develop their economic cooperation. The study is built on mixed methods where the main bulk of data is collected through semistructured interviews with Swedish experts on the bilateral relationship. …”
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Biology of the Hicatee: A Critically Endangered River Turtle of Belize by Venetia Briggs-Gonzalez, Nathan Schwartz, Rebecca G. Harvey, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…This 3-page fact sheet about the hicatee includes its natural history, reproductive habits, and ecology and describes the international conservation efforts to save the fascinating but fast-disappearing turtle. …”
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Position multisituée et récursivité by Anne-Christine Trémon

“…This link with a segment of the diaspora exercised a recursive effect on the materials gathered in the field. Efforts to broaden the research beyond that segment, along with the realisation of this recursivity, made it possible to better understand the diasporic relationship, at the cost of a shift: the research no longer concerned only the study of the change in the relationship with the diaspora in the context of China’s social and economic changes, but also concerned local understandings of these changes in the context of that relationship. …”
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Beyond Equal Rights: The Persistence of Ethno-Racial Inequalities in America by Olivier Richomme

“…Worse, racial patterns of mass incarceration and efforts at disenfranchisement suggest that equal rights remain under attack in an indirect but still very troubling manner.…”
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The ECB’s New Monetary Policy Strategy by Peter Hennecke

“…Therein, the ECB announced that it is willing to accept a transitory period of moderate inflation overshoot in its efforts to push inflation upwards after a long period of undershooting its target. …”
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Reality-Illusion of the Climate Policy of Germany by Rupert Pritzl

“…Politics get entangeld in distributional conflicts with EEG lobby groups and orchestrate their pretend efforts in public. Politicians tend more to dirigistic than to market-based policy instruments and ease the urge towards distributional interventions in the market. …”
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The Road to Recovery #4: Evaluating Virtual Techniques to Reach Clientele and Promote Equity by Colby Jordan Silvert, Cody Gusto, John Diaz, Glenn Israel

“…This new 4-page publication of the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication discusses the concept of digital equity and provides recommendations to evaluate efforts to access and connect with key audiences. …”
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Managing community-based conservation in Bobaomby, Madagascar by Élysé Rabearivola Nomenjanahary, Hortensia Rasoanandrasana, Andrew Walsh

“…Conservation and development projects that prescribe the participation of local stakeholders in decision-making around the sustainable management of their own ecosystems have become commonplace in Madagascar in recent decades, as have scholarly critiques questioning the likelihood that such “community-based conservation” (CBC) efforts can achieve the win-win scenarios they purport to offer Malagasy communities and ecosystems. …”
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Pierre Miremont (1901-1979) : un félibre oublié du félibrige ? by Cecile Noilhan

“…Pèire Miremont put always time and efforts in his fight for the Oc language and for the « felibrige » movement. …”
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Streamlining Resiliency: Regulatory Considerations in Permitting Small Scale Living Shorelines by Thomas T. Ankersen, Alexandra Barshel, Valerie Chesnut

“…Because living shorelines are considered environmentally beneficial, several agencies have coordinated efforts to reduce the regulatory burden required to construct them. …”
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Perception of Landscape Management by Martin Coy, Norbert Weixlbaumer

“…Landscape management efforts in the Großes Walsertal were monitored by accompanying regional-economic and perceptional studies, resulting in a discussion of required future actions.…”
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Using Implicit Economic Multipliers to Guide Local Economic Development: An Agricultural Example in St. Johns County, Florida by Rodney L. Clouser, Mohammad Rahmani, Alan Hodges, David Dinkins

“…Johns County as a model, that can assist in the economic development decision process, which can be completed for minimal expenditures and can aid in the success of economic development efforts. Includes references. Published by the UF Department of Food and Resource Economics, August 2010.   …”
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Development of Bahiagrass Fertilization Recommendations: 1990-2008 by Edward A. Hanlon, Rao Mylavarapu, Cheryl L. Mackowiak, Maria L. Silveira

“…Silveira, records changes in UF/IFAS’ bahiagrass fertilization and liming recommendations from 1990 through 2008 and summarizes efforts of the various work groups and committees. …”
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NATURALISTIC DISPERSION OF THE PROBLEM OF SOCIOL COGNITION by Justinas Karosas

“…Therefore, having employed external powers, the philosophy of this period made efforts to limit itself from speculations and become the positive science which would be related to the natural sciences. …”
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A concise review on sensor signal acquisition and transformation applied to human activity recognition and human–robot interaction by Lourdes Martínez-Villaseñor, Hiram Ponce

“…When these approaches have to be developed, different efforts from signal processing and artificial intelligence are considered. …”
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CRITERIA OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFICIENCY OF REGIONAL MANAGEMENT TEAMS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION by A. Nikitin

“…They reflect regional management teams efforts on enterprise development and investment climate. …”
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Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) Programs: Why Existing Businesses Are Important by Henry M. Cothran

“…This fact sheets summarizes the results from several studies over the last decade showing how existing businesses are responsible for more job growth in local communities than industry attraction efforts and lists several other benefits existing businesses provide to communities. …”
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