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Public administration; Sociology - Bij het transformeren van probleemwijken naar prachtwijken is veel aandacht voor de fysieke, de sociale en de economische aspecten van achterstand. Maar weinig is bekend over de relatie tussen achterstand en emotionele binding: wat zijn de effecten van de stedelijke vernieuwing op het thuisgevoel van deze bewoners? Dat staat centraal in dit onderzoek waarbij de praktijk in Nederland en Engeland met elkaar vergeleken worden. Aan de hand van data uit het WoonBehoefte Onderzoek/ WoOn (1998 - 2006) en de British Household Panel Survey (1998 - 2003) is de buurthechting van Nederlandse en Engelse bewoners in kaart gebracht.

In discussing the results of the Belgian local elections of 8 October 2006 the media devoted most attention to Antwerp. Not only because it is Flanders biggest city, but especially because of the remarkable result of mayor Patrick Janssens & his socialist party (Sp.a-Spirit). They won over 35% of the votes & became the biggest party of the city, a position that was taken by the extreme right party for more than ten years. In this article we tried to map & explain the so called 'Janssens-effect.' By analyzing the election results & the data of an (inter-university) Internet panel we managed to prove that Patrick Janssens had a large share in the victory of his party. A lot of citizens of Antwerp that normally would not vote for the socialist party supported Janssens. To explain this personal success we suggested four plausible motives: the perceived qualities of Janssens as a Mayor; his presidential campaign; the attention of & performance in the media; & finally the statement against extreme right. Our panel data suggest that a combination of these motives can explain the Janssens-effect. The appreciation for Janssens as a very capable mayor was present among the electorate long before the campaign started. This appreciation became the basis for his electoral success. The fact that many voters decided to switch to Janssens in the months & weeks before the election is related to his campaign & the media-attention it generated. The media strengthened the image of Antwerp as a polarized city. Especially the voters that changed their vote intention during the campaign were convinced that supporting Janssens was the most explicit signal against the extreme right image of their city. Tables, Figures, Image. Adapted from the source document.

Dans ce livre, la stratégie dans l?arbitrage international est abordée sous toutes ses facettes; dans un ordre chronologique tout d?abord; de la rédaction de la clause à l?exécution de la sentence arbitrale; la stratégie de chacun des acteurs est ensuite appréhendée: avocat mais aussi juriste d?entreprise, expert et arbitre. 00Le présent colloque présente par les exposés et contributions écrites, le fruit des riches expériences d?acteurs importants de l?arbitrage, expériences qui sont rarement transcrites dans un livre ou dans une présentation orale. Mieux encore, les discussions et les panels permettront un échange d?expériences et de pratiques de premier ordre. 00Il s?agit donc d?un apport unique d?abord à l?arbitrage commercial international, mais aussi à l?arbitrage en général. 0

In het kader van duurzame ontwikkeling is het tegengaan van de opwarming van de aarde één van de grootste uitdagingen die we onder ogen moeten zien. Het Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stelde in de periode 1996-2005 een gemiddelde temperatuurstijging van 0,74°C vast. Deze temperatuurstijging is met grote waarschijnlijkheid te wijten aan menselijke activiteiten en zal wereldwijd gevolgen hebben, gaande van extreme weersomstandigheden tot snelle verspreiding van ziekten. Teneinde deze opwarming tegen te gaan, zullen de emissies van broeikasgassen drastisch gereduceerd moeten worden. Gezien het Kyoto-protocol in 2012 afloopt, werd in december 2009 een nieuwe klimaatconferentie gehouden in Kopenhagen. Het resultaat van deze klimaattop was echter teleurstellend. Er werden geen concrete doelstellingen per land overeengekomen. Enkele maanden later bevestigde België dat ze de politieke verbintenissen die de Europese Unie aangaat, zal naleven. Dit houdt een CO2-reductie van 20% in

In this paper we study both long term and short term individual effects of political participation at the local level. Participatory theorists argue that political participation could lead to individual emancipation in terms of a rise of political knowledge and, in the long term, political trust. Indeed, in the short term the increased political knowledge associated with participation might enable citizens to better define their self-interest, which may be inconsistent with actual policies pursued by the local authorities and thus might be conductive to distrust. In the empirical part we will test these assertions using two-wave panel data for a random sample of 457 individuals in the district of Deurne (Antwerp -- Belgium). Our results suggest that in the short term participation leads to more local political knowledge and distrust in the local administration. However, we do not find a significant increase in political trust in the long term. Adapted from the source document.