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Politics of Switzerland

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Forestscapes and the plantation. The ‚longue-durée‘ of Swiss coloniality shaping Brazilian and Swiss land

How can artistic practices trace, unearth and reveal long lasting intrusion into landscapes and ecosystems through colonial infrastructure? This talk compares the romantizised visual language in travelogues of european „scientific“ explorers in the forests ...

2023

Policy analysis during socio-technical energy transitions: three essays on the Swiss electricity sector

Paul Adrianus Van Baal

Global energy systems are changing rapidly. This energy transition complicates the use of traditional policy analysis methods. However, proper policy analysis and design is essential in managing the transition. This thesis takes an interdisciplinary approa ...

EPFL2019

The Effect of European Integration on Swiss Energy Policy and Governance

Matthias Finger, Paul Adrianus Van Baal

The unique “Swiss way” of association with the European Union (EU) has received increasing attention in light of recent events such as Brexit as it is based on sectoral agreements without an overarching institutional framework. As such, Europeanization of ...

2019

Design of a Throttled Surge Tank for Refurbishment by Increase of Installed Capacity at a High-Head Power Plant

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Nicolas Jean François Pascal Ghislain Adam, Bernard Valluy

The Swiss confederation aims to phase out nuclear power production with its Energy Strategy 2050 program by increasing the renewable energy contribution to its overall energy generation. Hydroelectricity, which is the most important form of renewable energ ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2018

Moral Matrices

Shin Alexandre Koseki

In this dissertation, I address the political and moral geography of Swiss federal participatory votes for the period between 1981 and 2014 to re-investigate some of the fundamental questions left open in urban sciences: how and why socio-ethical, moral an ...

EPFL2017

Geography of Moral Intuitions

Shin Alexandre Koseki

The geography of “culture-war” is usually addressed as the expression of religious, socio-economical, ethnically and historical divides that characterise territorial constructs. In recent research trends, psychologists suggest this culture-war divisions re ...

2015

The Urban Diffusion of Local Direct Democracy between Switzerland and the United States

Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle

In this chapter I expose how direct democracy instruments based on the ballot (referendum, popular initiative, recall), as opposed to assembly based direct democracy, have developed in Switzerland and have been adopted by more than 20 US states as an answe ...

Ashgate Publishing2015

Direct democracy and metropolitan fragmentation in Switzerland and in California

Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle

In the beginning of the 20th century, many states in the USA, and especially California among them, implemented semi-direct democracy instruments that were directly inspired by the 1848 Swiss constitution—referendum, popular initiative, recall–to fight ext ...

2013

Neutralité et engagement. Les relations entre le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge et le gouvernement suisse pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia

Since its creation in 1863, the ICRC has maintained a special relationship with Switzerland and its government, based on the pursuit of neutrality and on the perception of a common destiny. Such a perception and the adherence to shared political values wer ...

Société d'histoire de la Suisse romande2012

Climate Policy Making for Enhanced Technological and Institutional Innovation

Within the framework of the CCES1 project ‘Climate Policy making for enhanced technological and institutional innovation’ (ClimPol) we are investigating the role of firms in climate policy making. The aim of this research is to give recommendations for eff ...

2009

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