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Les frontières au quotidien? Modes de vie dans l'agglomération trinationale de Bâle

The gradual opening of borders, which occurred over the past few decades have dramatically altered their role and function. Although these evolutions were not uniform, they have enabled the development of cross-border regions, which are characterized by a ...

EPFL2017

Community resilience to climate change in a cross-scale tourism governance context: a combined quantitative-qualitative network analysis

Romano Tobias Wyss

Social systems in mountain regions are exposed to a number of disturbances, such as climate change. Calls for conceptual and practical approaches on how to address climate change have been taken up in the literature. The resilience concept as a comprehensi ...

Resilience Alliance2016

Collection, Access and Use of Human Genetic Information for Precision Medicines: Risk Governance Considerations

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Gene technologies and their application by industry are developing rapidly, particularly in the US and in China. Yet, governance of the field of genomic for precision medicine is developing more slowly and needs to catch up. The rapid developments in scien ...

International Risk Governance Council (IRGC)2016

Governing Cyber Security Risks and Benefits of the Internet of Things: Application to Connected Vehicles and Medical Devices

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Creating trust in connectivity including confidentiality, integrity and availability will be key to achieving the promises of the IoT, at least in the automotive and medical sector. Assessing vulnerability, implementing and assessing security controls, des ...

International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2016

IRGC Guidelines for Emerging Risk Governance: Guidance for the Governance of Unfamiliar Risks

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin, Chaabane Mazri

The IRGC Guidelines for Emerging Risk Governance describe key steps and associated methodologies for early identification and management of emerging risks. The process proposed in this report covers an overarching, flexible and adaptable set of guidelines ...

International Risk Governance Council (IRGC)2015

Medium-sized Haitian cities after the earthquake of 12 January 2010: an analysis of the urban governance from the perspective given by the Governance Analytical Framework GAF

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

The concept of governance is generally understood to be the creation of a structure or an order that results from the interaction of a multiplicity of governing mechanisms and actors influencing each other. The notion is increasingly criticized mainly beca ...

2015

Shaping public sector innovation theory: an interpretative framework for ICT-enabled governance innovation

Gianluigi Viscusi, Gianluca Carlo Misuraca

The paper discusses from a conceptual standpoint the need for renewing the lenses through which looking at the phenomenon of ICT-enabled innovation in governance and policy-making, suggesting that a possible ‘new theory of public sector innovation ́ should ...

Springer Verlag2015

IRGC Guidelines for Emerging Risk Governance (Appendix)

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin, Chaabane Mazri

This appendix to IRGC's main report "guidelines for emerging risk governance" provides (a) a review of existing framework for the governance of emerging risks and (b) a review of theoretical foundations of IRGC's guidelines. ...

International Risk Governance Council (IRGC)2015

Modeling and assessing scenarios of common property pastures management in Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur

Common property pastures (CPPs) in the Alps served as examples for successful self-governed resource use. During the past fewdecades, the situation has changed, and abandonment of marginal pastureswith subsequent forest regrowth has been widely observed. T ...

Elsevier2015

World politics of a space without territory

Boris Beaude, Luc Guillemot

The Internet is increasingly becoming a political place in the World whose governance is therefore changed. In fact, classical political governance mechanisms appears to be overwhelmed by the emergence of this new space and its growing impact on the redefi ...

2013

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