Download or read book Les effets des r formes des chemins de fer sur les performances written by Jae-Hoon Lee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'objectif poursuivi dans cette thèse consiste à apprécier les effets des réformes ferroviaires. Sur la base des résultats produits dans les deux pays (le Japon et la Suède) présentant différentes modalités de réforme en terme de régime de propriétés et d'organisation de l'infrastructure, nous avons analysé : 1) l'image des réformes sur les chemins de fer et 2) le lien entre telles réformes et la performance. Pour l'impact des réformes, nous avons estimé leurs effets " nets " dans chacun des deux pays, à travers cinq prismes : 1) la structure de production, 2) l'activité de transport, 3)la structure de coût, 4) la situation financière et 5) le lien avec l'Etat. Ensuite, nous avons évalué séparément pour chacun des deux pays l'efficience technique et la profitabilité, en utilisant une méthode DEA / AR avec facteurs exogènes. Les mesures de productivité de Malmquist des deux pays sont comparées avec celle des autres pays n'ayant pas mis en place de réforme, afin d'évaluer l'avantage de telles références. Les résultats font ressortir qu'une réforme ferroviaire n'accroît pas nécessairement la performance, et notamment qu'une réforme telle qu'elle réalise simplement la séparation de la gestion de l'infrastructure et la gestion de l'exploitation des services ferroviaires ne permet pas d'entraîner une progression de la performance. La différence significative dans les gains de performance dans les deux pays indique que les modalités de réforme affectent de manière importante la progression de la performance. La conséquence de la réforme en Suède invite également à interroger l'effet de la séparation de l'infrastructure et de l'exploitation. La séparation organique a contribué à la croissance supplémentaire de l'efficience, avec un niveau un peu moins de trois fois inférieures à celui enregistré au Japon. Ce faible effet indépendant du régime de propriété, ne semble pas donner une raison suffisante pour que la séparation de l'infrastructure et de l'exploitation puisse accroître de la performance. Les résultats de ce travail contribuent au débat sur les effets des réformes ferroviaires et permettent de reconsidérer les limites des explications théoriques. Le facteur trouvé dans ce travail c'est à dire une " volonté politique " pour créer une condition initiale en faveur de la réalisation des gains de performance, est celui qui était ignoré par les théories et travaux précédents sur le sujet. La supériorité des gains de performance observée au Japon, indépendamment de modalité de réforme adoptée, montre clairement l'importance de telle " volonté politique " afin de réussie la réforme ferroviaire.
Download or read book Railways and the Western European Capitals written by M. Nilsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the effect of railways on London, Paris, Brussels, and Berlin, focusing on each city as a case study for one aspect of implantation.
Download or read book Coal Tar Creosote written by C. Melber and published by WHO. This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover: IPCS International Programme on Chemical Safety. Published under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization, and produced within the framework of the Inter-organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC)
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Download or read book GeoHumanities written by Michael Dear and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, there has been a convergence of transdisciplinary thought characterized by geography’s engagement with the humanities, and the humanities’ integration of place and the tools of geography into its studies. GeoHumanities maps this emerging intellectual terrain with thirty cutting edge contributions from internationally renowned scholars, architects, artists, activists, and scientists. This book explores the humanities’ rapidly expanding engagement with geography, and the multi-methodological inquiries that analyze the meanings of place, and then reconstructs those meanings to provoke new knowledge as well as the possibility of altered political practices. It is no coincidence that the geohumanities are forcefully emerging at a time of immense intellectual and social change. This book focuses on a range of topics to address urgent contemporary imperatives, such as the link between creativity and place; altered practices of spatial literacy; the increasing complexity of visual representation in art, culture, and science and the ubiquitous presence of geospatial technologies in the Information Age. GeoHumanties is essential reading for students wishing to understand the intellectual trends and forces driving scholarship and research at the intersections of geography and the humanities disciplines. These trends hold far-reaching implications for future work in these disciplines, and for understanding the changes gripping our societies and our globalizing world.
Download or read book Treaty Series Recueil Des Traites written by United Nations and published by UN. This book was released on 2007-11-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lion s Share written by Guido Alfani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most in-depth analysis of inequality and social polarization ever attempted for a preindustrial society. Using data from the archives of the Venetian Terraferma, and compared with information available for elsewhere in Europe, Guido Alfani and Matteo Di Tullio demonstrate that the rise of the fiscal-military state served to increase economic inequality in the early modern period. Preindustrial fiscal systems tended to be regressive in nature, and increased post-tax inequality compared to pre-tax - in contrast to what we would assume is the case in contemporary societies. This led to greater and greater disparities in wealth, which were made worse still as taxes were collected almost entirely to fund war and defence rather than social welfare. Though focused on Old Regime Europe, Alfani and Di Tullio's findings speak to contemporary debates about the roots of inequality and social stratification.
Download or read book Bulletin de L Institut International Du Froid written by International Institute of Refrigeration and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some numbers called Special issue and consist of summaries of papers to be presented at the International Congresses of Refrigeration.
Download or read book The Code of Terpsichore written by Carlo Blasis and published by Dance Books Limited. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legal and Regulatory Framework for Environmental Impact Assessments written by Mohamed Abdelwahab Bekhechi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) is a procedure for evaluating the impact of proposed activities on the environment. In modern Africa, EIAs are a growing reality and a matter of law in 22 sub-Saharan African countries. This volume examines various aspects of EIA legislation in these countries, including: definitions and prescribed activities; public participation and consultation; the review process and the quality of EIA reports; monitoring and enforcement; compatibility; and transboundary issues. It highlights the role and degree of public participation for the further development of EIA law and policy.
Download or read book Guidance for CITES Scientific Authorities written by and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2002 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use of and trade in wildlife is a fact of life for human society around the globe. Article IV of the CITES Convention requires that exporting countries restrict trade in Appendix II species to levels that are not detrimental either to species? survival, or to their role within the ecosystems in which they occur (known as the ?non-detriment finding?). Based on two workshops convened by IUCN to develop some pragmatic assistance for Scientific Authorities, this publication presents the background to the development of the non-detriment finding checklist and explains how the checklist itself is designed to work, in the hope that Scientific Authority staff will take and develop the parts of the approach that they find useful.
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Download or read book The Violence of Modernity written by Debarati Sanyal and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, one of the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in order to reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historical critique. Works of modern literature are commonly theorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history. In a climate that tends to privilege crisis over critique, Debarati Sanyal argues that it is urgent to rethink literary experience in terms that recall its contestatory potential. Examining Baudelaire's poems afresh, she shifts the focus of critical attention toward an account of modernism as an active engagement with violence, specifically the violence of history in nineteenth-century France. Sanyal analyzes a literary current that uses the traditional hallmarks of modernism—irony, intertextuality, self-reflexivity, and formalism—to challenge the historical violence of modernity. Baudelaire and the committed ironists writing in his wake teach us how to read and resist the violence of history, and thereby to challenge the melancholy tenor of our contemporary "wound culture." In a series of provocative readings, Sanyal presents Baudelaire's poetry as an aesthetic form that contests historical violence through rhetorical strategies of complicity, counterviolence, and critique. The book develops a new account of Baudelaire's significance as a modernist by dislodging him both from his traditional status as a practitioner of "art for art's sake" and from his more recent incarnation as the poet of trauma. Following her extended analysis of Baudelaire's poetry, Sanyal in later chapters considers a number of authors influenced by his strategies—including Rachilde, Virginie Despentes, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre—to examine the relevance of their interventions for our current climate of trauma and terror. The result is a study that underscores how Baudelaire's legacy continues to energize literary engagements with the violence of modernity.
Download or read book Spaces and Identities in Border Regions written by Christian Wille and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial and identity research operates with differentiations and relations. These are particularly useful heuristic tools when examining border regions where social and geopolitical demarcations diverge. Applying this approach, the authors of this volume investigate spatial and identity constructions in cross-border contexts as they appear in everyday, institutional and media practices. The results are discussed with a keen eye for obliquely aligned spaces and identities and relinked to governmental issues of normalization and subjectivation. The studies base upon empirical surveys conducted in Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
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