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

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

We say we are fine. They say we are not.

Denise Bertschi

Slender yet densely packed with images, this 44-page publication presents items discovered during an artistic research project that investigated various relationships between Swiss people and the South African apartheid regime in the 1980s and 1990s. Adver ...

Auto-édité par Denise Bertschi2018

Inventories without archives: the list of “Living Traditions in Switzerland”

Florence Graezer Bideau

Since ratifying the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2008, Swiss cultural authorities have taken its innovative cultural philosophy to heart. Despite the central role of tradition and folklore in the history of this ...

2018

The geographic evolution of political cleavages in Switzerland: A network approach to assessing levels and dynamics of polarization between local populations

Shin Alexandre Koseki

Scholarly studies and common accounts of national politics enjoy pointing out the resilience of ideological divides among populations. Building on the image of political cleavages and geographic polarization, the regionalization of politics has become a tr ...

2018

Visible Data - Invisible Disparities : the politics of research data management in Switzerland

Lorenza Salvatori, Jan Brice Krause, Eliane Ninfa Blumer, Aude Dieudé

Digital Lifecyle Management (DLCM) : Swiss National Project ...

2016

Analysing the distribution of walking in the Swiss population

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie

In many countries including Switzerland, public policy encourages people to walk for reasons linked to health, the environment, and transport. However, the distribution of walking in the population is not known. People who walk great distances have not bee ...

2015

Ethnography of a political ritual: speeches given to new Swiss citizens by representatives of the state

Maxime Carl Felder

Our paper examines speeches given at citizenship ceremonies in Geneva (Switzerland) in order to understand what makes a foreigner a new member of a national and especially of a cantonal entity. Focusing on speeches by three ministers over an interval of 4 ...

2015

Swiss Competences in River Engineering and Restoration

The world is like a river, running along in its bed, this way and that, forming sandbanks by chance and then being forced by these to take a different course. Whereas this all proceeds smoothly and easily and gradually, the river engineers have great diffi ...

CRC Press/Balkema2014

A comparison of body mass index spatial dependence among adults and children in a Swiss general population

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous

Background: Body mass index (BMI) may cluster in space among adults and be spatially dependent. Whether BMI clusters among children and how adults and children BMI clusters are related remains unknown. We aimed to identify and to compare BMI spatial depend ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

SWISS LESSONS

How will 14 million people be living and working in Switzerland in 2048? Swiss Lessons gives an insight into laba’s working process as applied to the projected Swiss territory in the year 2048. Starting with the thesis that Switzerland will continue to exp ...

Park Books2014

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