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Les pays d'Afrique subsaharienne ont à scolariser un nombre croissant d'enfants, dans un contexte d'approfondissement de la pauvreté. Si les taux de scolarisation sont plus faibles en milieu rural, les villes connaissent également de fortes difficultés. Cet article analyse, pour Conakry,...
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Cette note correspond à la mise en ordre d'un ensemble d'informations sur la situation présente des transports à Cuba. Avec l'introduction de la bicyclette comme mode de transport quotidien, le pays connaît non seulement une mutation très importante de son système de transport urbain mais...
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En jetant un regard sur les écrits qui concernent le thème de la ville international, on aperçoit trois séries d'interrogation qui se complètent et suggèrent une progression très classique, depuis une compréhension élémentaire des choses jusqu'à des prescriptions de politiques...
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This paper examines the major barriers to the deployment of geothermal, small hydro and advanced coal power generation technologies in Vietnam. It ranks their severity by applying the analytical hierarchy process to data from a survey of 37 domestic experts and stakeholders. Key barriers to a...
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En matière d'offre de santé en Afrique subsaharienne, les villes apparaissent mieux loties que les villages; aussi, les disparités d'accessibilité aux lieux de soins ont-elles été peu étudiées à l'échelle intra-urbaine. Dans quelle mesure, en contexte de pauvreté, l'accès des...
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We describe a method to represent the results of climate simulation models with analogues. An analogue to a city A is a city B whose climate today represents A's simulated future climate. Climates were characterized and compared non-parametrically, using the 30-years distribution of three...
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This paper examines the major barriers to the deployment of geothermal, small hydro and advanced coal power generation technologies in Vietnam. It ranks their severity by applying the analytical hierarchy process to data from a survey of 37 domestic experts and stakeholders. Key barriers to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723312
This paper discusses aspects of risk and uncertainty relevant in an interdisciplinary assessment of climate change policy. It opposes not only the objective approach versus the subjective approach, but also situations when precise probabilities are well founded versus situations of broader forms...
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In this article, we assess the future prospects of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) from the perspective of a developing country, drawing on Vietnam as a case study. First, we review the performance of the CDM and describe the evolution of carbon markets on the path towards a post-2012...
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This paper introduces a few words used by economists studying uncertainty, climate policy and integrated assessment models. Section one uses two pedagogical examples to define risk, uncertainty, surprise and contingent strategy. Regarding uncertainty that is not risk, subjective probabilities...
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