The façade of equality in liberal democratic theory
In: Inquiry: an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy and the social sciences, Volume 12, Issue 1-4, p. 170-208
ISSN: 1502-3923
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In: Inquiry: an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy and the social sciences, Volume 12, Issue 1-4, p. 170-208
ISSN: 1502-3923
In: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 1-12
ISSN: 2327-2554
In: Ethnologie française: revue de la Société d'Ethnologie française, Volume 42, Issue 3, p. 429-440
ISSN: 2101-0064
Résumé Paris est une ville riche, que l'on imagine aisément uniformément gentrifiée. Elle comporte pourtant des « îlots » de pauvreté, dont les squats. En dépit de leur caractère insécurisant, ces bâtiments ont une fonction d'accueil : ils sont des points d'entrée dans la ville pour des personnes « en transition ». Le devenir des squats est cependant étroitement lié à l'action institutionnelle, qui oscille entre tolérance et sévérité. Dans ces arbitrages, les institutions locales sont guidées par un double impératif : résorber les poches insalubres de la ville et reloger les plus fragiles, mais aussi ne pas altérer l'image de la Ville lumière et sauvegarder sa dimension muséale.
International audience ; The Environment Round Table of the French government ("Grenelle de l'environnement") has focused efforts on the development of alternatives to road transport. A conclusion from these studies has been that railway usage is expected to increase in the future. Departmental noise transport committees were set up in 2001 in order to take an inventory of noise sensitive receivers and to look at technical solutions which could be implemented. A project had been undertaken which studied the insulation offered by existing dwelling facades at 800 properties subject to railway noise. In order to quantify the sound insulation performance, measurements of facade insulation have been carried out and compared to the day and night-time performance targets detailed by the policy document "Circulaire 25 Mai 2004". Where necessary, the sound insulation and the ventilation performance of the facades have been improved to meet the requirement of the aforementioned regulations.
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The climate and energy package is a set of binding legislations which aims to ensure the European Union meets its ambitious climate and energy targets for 2020. These targets, known as the "20-20-20" targets, have set three key objectives: a 20% reduction in the EU greenhouse gas emissions, a 20% rise in the share of EU energy consumption produced from renewable resources and a 20% improvement in the energy efficiency. More renewable energies will enable the EU to lower greenhouse emissions and make it less dependent on imported energy. Boosting the industry of renewables will encourage technological innovation and employment in Europe. On this topic, photovoltaic façades are known to be a solution that allows both energy efficiency and environmental performance of buildings. This paper reports on a study of façade systems that have incorporated photovoltaic panels, considering computational simulations for Portugal. The main objective is to analyze the characteristics and parameters that define more efficient systems based on computer simulations carried out by Solterm 5.0. The results show the high potential of the use of the proposed technology in Portugal, especially in the Southern region, because of its latitude. Regarding energy efficiency and environmental performance, inclined polycrystalline silicon solar panels achieved the best results and the most efficient panel was Kyocera KC167G-2, followed by BP 3160. The comparison between simulation results and results provided in the literature shows that the use of computer programs is viable to the analysis of the energy efficiency of photovoltaic systems in ...
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In: Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte: Zfmr = Journal for human rights, Volume 14, Issue 1, p. 226-242
ISSN: 2749-4845
In: Human biology: the international journal of population genetics and anthropology ; the official publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, Volume 86, Issue 3, p. 227
ISSN: 1534-6617
In: Le monde diplomatique, Volume 56, Issue 662, p. 3
ISSN: 0026-9395, 1147-2766
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In: Demokratizatsiya: the journal of post-Soviet democratization = Demokratizacija, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 79-116
ISSN: 1074-6846
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In: Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 79-115