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Air pollution and climate change are two major environmental problems. These issues are not only inextricably linked with regard to their effects and mitigation options but also through their causes that include human behavior, infrastructures, technology, ...

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Geneva's philanthropists around 1900: a field made of distinctive but interconnected social groups

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This article analyses the social profile of Geneva's philanthropists around 1900. It shows that, contrary to what the literature on philanthropy argues, philanthropists belonged to varied social groups defined by diverse forms of capital (economic, social ...

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Environmental heterogeneity is one of the main actors of biodiversity and species adaptation as it exerts a selective pressure on observable characteristics of living organisms. Consequently, local adaptation favours certain genetic variants and, by doing ...

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Appropriate Technologies for Sustainable Development

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The introductory chapter of the book studies the links between technologies and development, which should first have to address the contribution of modern technologies to sustainable development in all its environmental, social and economic aspects, in ord ...

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Enabling effective problem-oriented research for sustainable development

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Environmental problems caused by human activities are increasing; biodiversity is disappearing at an unprecedented rate, soils are being irreversibly damaged, freshwater is increasingly in short supply, and the climate is changing. To reverse or even to re ...

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Multiphysical Modelling of Soils with a Focus on Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation

In recent years, the complexity of geomechanical problems has greatly increased as a result of the demand for new and intricate types of applications. Experimental characterization and numerical prediction by means of multiphysical approaches are in that c ...

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En quête d'habitat

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This doctoral thesis is based on the observation that the individualization of society that is taking place today has led to new differentiations within the domains of lifestyle and residential choice. Our main hypothesis was that lifestyle influences resi ...

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