Download or read book Risques et prises de risques dans les soci t s industrielles written by Denis Varaschin and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alors que le thème du risque industriel a très tôt retenu l'attention de praticiens puis de chercheurs venus de multiples horizons, et qu'une discipline consacrée à son étude, la cindynique, a vu le jour dans les années 1980, les travaux des historiens sur le sujet demeurent rares et sont, pour l'essentiel, récents. Cet ouvrage, fruit de la journée d'études organisée le 14 décembre 2005 à l'Université d'Artois (Arras), en ouverture de l'ACI « Le risque industriel et sa gestion sociale », entend remédier à pareil déficit en replaçant dans une perspective historique les travaux antérieurs et les faits établis. Il propose d'abord une réflexion sur une notion complexe en adoptant le temps comme variable essentielle et la longue durée comme champ d'action. Entre perceptions, constructions et réalités, il développe ensuite, à travers huit études de cas exemplaires, une analyse des risques quotidiens et majeurs ainsi que des catastrophes qui ont dramatiquement jalonné la vie des sociétés industrielles au cours de la période contemporaine.
Download or read book Risques industriels written by Collectif and published by Presses universitaires de Rennes. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis une génération, de très grandes catastrophes industrielles d'ampleur internationale ont changé l'échelle que le risque industriel et technologique fait peser sur nos sociétés. Ce changement d'échelle est-il une transformation du régime de risque ou le prolongement d'un processus déjà amorcé précédemment ? C'est à une mise à distance et une historicisation du risque industriel qu'invite la lecture de cet ouvrage, fruit et partie d'une collaboration de plusieurs années entre des chercheurs de différents pays européens et des États-Unis. En effet, si la notion contemporaine de risque n'est mobilisée pour l'industrie qu'à la fin du xixe siècle, par emprunt au monde de l'assurance, un ensemble de concepts qui s'y rattachent est usuel au moins dès le xve siècle, et les autorités ont toujours mis en place des dispositifs juridiques et sociaux pour parer à ces risques. De la fin du xviie siècle aux années 1900 se déroule une séquence historique longue qui voit l'émergence de dispositifs de gestion à mesure des progrès de l'industrialisation. Les contributions de cet ouvrage interrogent les savoirs et les normes construits par des acteurs très divers, les médecins, les législateurs, les juristes, les architectes, les assureurs, les syndicalistes ou encore les industriels. Elles montrent que si les régulations du risque sont très variables et dépendent des contextes et des configurations locales, celles-ci s'inscrivent toutefois dans un mouvement général qui formalise son acceptation comme constitutive des sociétés industrielles. Cette longue durée nous protège de la tentation de ne considérer les problèmes contemporains que comme nouveaux, et donne de la profondeur à des questions essentielles qu'une approche historique ne peut qu'enrichir.
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)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Venture Capital written by Douglas Cumming and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venture capital (VC) refers to investments provided to early-stage, innovative, and high growth start-up companies. A common characteristic of all venture capital investments is that investee companies do not have cash flows to pay interest on debt or dividends on equity. Rather, investments are made with a view towards capital gain on exit. The most sought after exit routes are an initial public offering (IPO), where a company lists on a stock exchange for the first time, and an acquisition exit (trade sale), where the company is sold in entirety to another company. However, VCs often exit their investments by secondary sales, wherein the entrepreneur retains his or her share but the VC sells to another company or investor buybacks, where the entrepreneur repurchases the VC`s interest and write-offs (liquidations). The Oxford Handbook of Venture Capital provides a comprehensive picture of all the issues dealing with the structure, governance, and performance of venture capital from a global perspective. The handbook comprises contributions from 55 authors currently based in 12 different countries.
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Download or read book Fashionable Nonsense written by Alan Sokal and published by Picador. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo of postmodern theorists. The event sparked a furious debate in academic circles and made the headlines of newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. In Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Sokal and his fellow physicist Jean Bricmont expand from where the hoax left off. In a delightfully witty and clear voice, the two thoughtfully and thoroughly dismantle the pseudo-scientific writings of some of the most fashionable French and American intellectuals. More generally, they challenge the widespread notion that scientific theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions.
Download or read book Culture Society and the Media written by Tony Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses two related themes concerning the role and processes of mass communication in society. The first deals with questions regarding the power of the media: how should it be defined? how is it wielded and by whom? are previous approaches and answers to such questions adequate? The second theme revolves around the divisions between the liberal pluralist and Marxist approaches to the analysis of the nature of the media. These divisions have, in recent years, been fundamental to the debate concerning the understanding of the role of mass communication, and the examination of them in this book will challenge the reader to look more closely at a number of assumptions that have long been taken for granted.
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Download or read book Advances in Solid State Fermentation written by S. Roussos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G.HAINNAUX Departement Milieu et Activites Agricoles, Centre ORSTOM, 911 Avenue d' Agropolis, B.P. 5045, 34032 Montpellier Cedex , France. Solid state fermentation, popularly abbreviated as SSF, is currently investigated by many groups throughout the world. The study of this technique was largely neglected in the past in European and Western countries and there is now a high demand for SSF, meaning in food, environment, agricultural, phannaceutical and many other biotechnological applications. It gives me satisfaction to note that the importance of this technique was realised at my department way back in 1975 since then, our team has put concentrated efforts on developing this technique. xvii Foreword Advances in Solid State Fermentation Foreword M. PUYGRENIER Agropolis Valorisation, Avenue d' Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. On the name of the Scientific Community, I would like to express the wish that this International Symposium on SSF should be successful. Solid State Fermentation is part of biotechnology research. It consists on seeding solid culture medium with bacteria or fungi (filamentous or higher) and on producing, in this medium (solid components and exudates) metabolites and high value products. In fact, this process is very old. In older industries such the food and agricultural, this technique has been extensively used. An example of this is the production of pork sausages and Roquefort cheese. Pharmaceutical industry could make extensive use of SSF in the production of secondary metabolites of many kinds and development in this direction is soon expected.
Download or read book No Safe Place written by Phil Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An excellent and readable account of the toxic waste crisis in Woburn, Massachusetts, and the courageous efforts by local citizens to protect their community. The Woburn story is an inspiring lesson for citizens across the country struggling to protect the environment from polluters and unresponsive government officials."—Senator Edward Kennedy
