Concept
Révolution haïtienne
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A Politics of Intellectual Property: The French Revolution and the Creation of a Patent System
Our understanding of the rise of intellectual property has been highly influenced by the tools and concepts of economic history and the lens of the Industrial Revolution. Looking at the case of France, this article examines the cultural and ideological ori ...
2020A Politics of Intellectual Property Creating a Patent System in Revolutionary France
Economic interpretations, in particular the lens of the Industrial Revolution, have strongly influenced our understanding of the rise of intellectual property. This article examines the political origins of the 1791 patent law in France, which is usually s ...
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS2020Une revalorisation urbaine et paysagère de la cité de Prora (D)
Sur les côtes de l’île de Rügen, en Allemagne du Nord, se trouve une cité à l’histoire inachevée. Construite en 1939, la cité balnéaire de Prora a pour ambition d’être le plus grand projet touristique jamais réalisé. Elle se situe dans un cadre idyllique a ...
2019Crise et gouvernance
Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern
On January 12 2010, Haiti was hit by an earthquake of 7.2 on the Richter scale. Close to 220,000 persons died, more than 300,000 were wounded and almost two other million were displaced. The earthquake¿s epicenter was actually several kilometers away the c ...
EPFL2017From innovation in the construction sector in Haiti to social impact on Haitian society: Digital Norms by Assimilation DNA
Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern
The impact of the earthquake of 2010 was aggravated by the precarious housindg of the vulnerable Haitian population. Although disaster risk reduction and building sector regulations are today national priorities, Haiti lacks adequate training entities. The ...
2016Urban governance in earthquake struck medium-sized Haitian cities
Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern
This paper aims to provide an insight into the urban governance of four medium-sized Haitian cities hit by the earthquake of 2010, bearing in mind two affirmations of J. Pierre on urban governance; namely, that it is the better analytical model for the con ...
2015Border urban intermediation in the Dominican Republic
This study is comprised of seven chapters including a final part of conclusions. The First Chapter attempts to bring this topic into the current debate on the main aspects discussed by the thesis, vis-à-vis urban intermediation in border situations within ...
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