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Dès le début des années 1970, avec la prise de conscience de la pression exercée par l'Homme sur son environnement, s'est posée la question de l'évaluation de ses actions en termes d'impacts sur l'environnement. Rapidement, institutions publiques, entreprises, laboratoires de recherche et ONG ont proposé des méthodes et instruments pour évaluer les interactions de la société industrielle avec son environnement. Depuis, l'Analyse de Cycle de Vie ou le Bilan Carbone sont diffusés au sein des entreprises. Mais comment les entreprises utilisent-elles ces instruments ? Quelles actions mettent-elles en place ? Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur vous invite à suivre les récits d'appropriation de six entreprises mobilisant ces instruments. De simples évaluations, ces instruments peuvent devenir le socle de véritables dispositifs d'innovation environnementale au sein des entreprises. Grâce à ces dispositifs, émergent de nouvelles figures managériales et la production de nouvelles connaissances utiles pour l'entreprise et la société.

Environmental studies, Geography & Development --- développement durable --- environnement --- gestion d'entreprise --- gaz à effet de serre

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Le réseau «Économie et développement urbain durable» a comme ambition de contribuer au développement de la recherche économique dans le domaine du développement urbain durable en prenant en compte les préoccupations des acteurs socio-économiques (élus, entreprises, associations). Ce réseau rassemble sept équipes de recherche : • le Centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement (CIRED); • le Laboratoire d'économie de la production et de l'intégration internationale (LEPII); • le Laboratoire d'économie des transports (LET); • le Laboratoire ville, mobilité, transports (LVMT); • l'École des MINES ParisTech; • le Département économie et sciences humaines du Centre scientifique et technique du bâtiment; • la Mission climat de la Caisse des dépôts. Ce livre présente les travaux exposés et partagés lors de la deuxième réunion annuelle du réseau en 2010. Ces travaux sont dédiés aux inventaires des émissions urbaines et aux politiques publiques en faveur de la maîtrise de ces émissions dans le bâtiment ainsi qu'à la problématique de l'usage des sols dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de politiques publiques des transports.

Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Communities - Urban Groups --- développement durable --- gaz à effet de serre --- politiques publiques --- transport --- environnement --- taxe carbone

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This book addresses a major gap in sound art scholarship: the role of audience participation. It offers a survey of participatory sound art from its origins in the historical avant-gardes to the non-institutionalized forms of sonic creativity in contemporary digital culture. In doing so, it proposes an innovative theoretical framework for analysing such phenomena, rooted in Pragmatist aesthetics, affordance theory and postcritique. Combining artwork analyses with qualitative studies, it focuses on three principal aspects of participatory sound art: the ways the materialities of the artworks facilitate and structure the participatory processes; the interplay of the creative agencies of the artists and the participants; and the postcritical approach to sound art’s politics, unfolding through the participants’ affective gestures. In considering these multiple dimensions, this book contributes to the growing fields of sound studies and participation studies, as well as to curatorial practice regarding sound art and participatory art.

Sociology --- Higher education --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Music --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- sociologie --- muziek --- technologie --- wetenschappen --- Art numérique --- Politique culturelle --- Enseignement artistique --- Musique --- Effet sonore

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From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754 coinage into the twentieth century--chronicling along the way much of what we now call the natural and social sciences. The book charts where the term went, with whom it resided, and how it fared. We cross oceans and academic specialties and meet those people, both famous and now obscure, who have used and abused serendipity. We encounter a linguistic sage, walk down the illustrious halls of the Harvard Medical School, attend the (serendipitous) birth of penicillin, and meet someone who "manages serendipity" for the U.S. Navy. The story of serendipity is fascinating; that of The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity, equally so. Written in the 1950's by already-eminent sociologist Robert Merton and Elinor Barber, the book--though occasionally and most tantalizingly cited--was intentionally never published. This is all the more curious because it so remarkably anticipated subsequent battles over research and funding--many of which centered on the role of serendipity in science. Finally, shortly after his ninety-first birthday, following Barber's death and preceding his own by but a little, Merton agreed to expand and publish this major work. Beautifully written, the book is permeated by the prodigious intellectual curiosity and generosity that characterized Merton's influential On the Shoulders of Giants. Absolutely entertaining as the history of a word, the book is also tremendously important to all who value the miracle of intellectual discovery. It represents Merton's lifelong protest against that rhetoric of science that defines discovery as anything other than a messy blend of inspiration, perspiration, error, and happy chance--anything other than serendipity.

Chance in science --- Découvertes fortuites en science --- Scientific serendipity --- Serendip [Effet] --- Serendipity in science --- Toevallige ontdekkingen in de wetenschap --- Serendipity in science. --- Science --- Social aspects. --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Social aspects --- Sociology of knowledge --- SERENDIPITY --- SERENDIPITE --- SCIENCES --- ASPECT SOCIAL

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Most therapeutics available today are highly toxic, very expensive and exhibit minimum efficacy. The issue of toxicity is even more critical for prevention than for therapy because the former involves normal subjects. Thus, therapeutics that are safe and affordable are needed for both prevention and therapy. Spices of Southeast Asian origin, once employed for taste, appearance and preservation of food, now appear to have therapeutic value for humans. What the active principles in these spices are and how they mediate their effect against various diseases are beginning to emerge from extensive

Spices --- Medicinal plants --- Drug plants --- Plants, Useful --- Botanical drug industry --- Botany, Medical --- Materia medica, Vegetable --- Psychotropic plants --- Condiments --- Therapeutic use. --- Physiological effect. --- Analysis. --- Phytotherapy. --- Plants, Medicinal --- Medicine, Traditional. --- Ethnopharmacology. --- Epices --- Plantes médicinales --- analysis. --- chemistry. --- Physiological effect --- Analysis --- Emploi en thérapeutique --- Effet physiologique --- Analyse