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International audience ; Au moment où une équipe de recherches parisienne prépare un volume sur l'Europe des Diètes, les historiens modernistes de l'Université Paul Valéry nous offrent ici un recueil qui met en valeur l'importance des Assemblées d'États dans la France d'Ancien régime. Ces communications, présentées lors du colloque tenu à Montpellier en mars 1994, s'inscrivent dans un courant très novateur, car elles remettent largement en cause une idée communément reçue concernant la monarchie d'Ancien régime, encore défendue en 1969 par Georges Durand : un roi, des ministres qui ne sont que des commis, des conseils qui ne sont que des bureaux, un parlement qui, politiquement, n'est plus qu'un greffe, une hiérarchie de tribunaux et d'institutions financières appliquant les édits et exécutant les exigences du Brevet de la taille autant que l'économie pouvait le supporter.

International audience ; Au moment où une équipe de recherches parisienne prépare un volume sur l'Europe des Diètes, les historiens modernistes de l'Université Paul Valéry nous offrent ici un recueil qui met en valeur l'importance des Assemblées d'États dans la France d'Ancien régime. Ces communications, présentées lors du colloque tenu à Montpellier en mars 1994, s'inscrivent dans un courant très novateur, car elles remettent largement en cause une idée communément reçue concernant la monarchie d'Ancien régime, encore défendue en 1969 par Georges Durand : un roi, des ministres qui ne sont que des commis, des conseils qui ne sont que des bureaux, un parlement qui, politiquement, n'est plus qu'un greffe, une hiérarchie de tribunaux et d'institutions financières appliquant les édits et exécutant les exigences du Brevet de la taille autant que l'économie pouvait le supporter.

Developments of the types of dwellings between the two wars of 1870 and 1914, their production and design (HBM specific programme), the rules for the distribution of dwellings and associated rooms according to whether they are intended for popular classes or for bourgeoisie. In particular, the status of the kitchen, the dining room, the bedroom, the hall of special hotels, the luxury and pleasure places are changing. ; Évolutions des types d'habitations entre les deux guerres de 1870 et 1914, de leur production et de leur conception (programme spécifique des HBM), des règles de distribution des pièces d'habitation et pièces annexes selon qu'elles sont destinées aux classes populaires ou à la bourgeoisie. On étudie plus particulièrement l'évolution du statut de la cuisine, de la salle à manger, de la chambre, du hall d'hôtels particuliers, des lieux du luxe et de plaisir.

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Climate change adaptation has increasingly come to be conceptualized as a place-based social process, in large part mediated by the local cultural context. The specificity of adaptation has called for partnerships between scientific and local communities to "co-produce" knowledge of climate variability (weather) and longer-term climate change. However, this raises numerous methodological challenges, including how to elicit the representations, knowledge, and cultural meanings of weather that are tacit to people in a community, and represent them in an explicit form that can be shared in a process of "co-production". Such work demands careful attention to the way tightly intertwined knowledge systems continuously rebuild representations of climate in a place, and how these knowledge systems are also intertwined with values and the exercise of power. This paper takes up this challenge and explores the potential offered by theories and methods of narrative. Looking at a research project "co-producing" knowledge of weather and impacts in northeast Bangladesh, this paper describes the experience of running narrative interviews with communities there, and how these narratives were analyzed along four themes to contribute to the co-production process. These themes included 1) the weather phenomena and impacts important to local communities, 2) how weather provides meaning and identity in that place, 3) how community actors produce and share weather knowledge, and 4) the climate-related narratives pervading the community. In sharing this experience, this paper seeks to fulfil a demand for more detailed practical accounts of narrative methods in climate adaptation research, particularly for knowledge co-production.

Heated debates are currently taking place on whether to open the area of Lofoten and Vesterålen in Northern Norway for petroleum production. Seismic explorations in this area have indicated promising petroleum resources. The area is known for its unique landscape and as a key spawning and nursery area for several economically important fish species. It hosts significant bird colonies and the world's largest-known deep-sea coral reef. New areas will be opened to petroleum production only if its high environmental value can be maintained. A risk analysis approach has become central to this decision, where the probability of a 'worst-case scenario' (a major oil spill) is assessed together with associated environmental impacts. This paper examines and characterises uncertainties associated with these risk assessments and some of the surrounding debates. Further, the paper reveals implications of these uncertainties: (1) potential values embedded in the risk assessments, (2) lack of validity of quantified worst-case scenarios and their probabilities and impacts, (3) limited prospects of filling addressed knowledge gaps and (4) how risk assessments restrict the debate on what issues and uncertainties are considered relevant. Taken together, this suggests that discussions on alternative approaches to decision making should be more prominent in public and political debates. ; publishedVersion