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Nous sommes engendrés avant le Temps
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ISBN: 276374348X 9782763743479 2763743471 9782763743486 Year: 2019 Publisher: [Québec (Québec)] : Baltimore, Md. : Presses de l'Université Laval, Project MUSE,

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"Grande est ma joie de voir Pierre rejeter de toutes ses forces la thèse, d’origine augustinienne, selon laquelle Dieu n’aurait prédestiné que peu d’hommes et de femmes à la joie de L’avoir éternellement pour Père « plus grand que [leur] coeur » (1 Jn 3, 20), et répéter que la grâce n’est pas semblable à l’eau qui coule goutte à goutte d’un robinet mal fermé, mais à un torrent de montagne dont l’eau fraîche ne cesse de déborder les vasques qu’elle remplit en les faisant déborder, à leur tour, sur celles qui se trouvent plus bas dans la fracture de la paroi. […] Si l’Orient chrétien ne l’a jamais oublié, formé qu’il fut par les écrits de Grégoire de Nysse au IV e siècle ou de Maxime le Confesseur au VI e siècle, pour qui la réconciliation finale de tous était « la doctrine des parfaits », c’est cela qu’il faut réapprendre à l’Occident avec le pape François, à temps et à contretemps. […] L’orthodoxie véritable ne consiste pas à se crisper sur des mots, mais à tenir ce qu’ils désignent d’inouï, d’au-delà de leur signification familière. Et peu importe qu’il nous arrive de nous tromper de mot ici et là, lui dans son genre, moi dans le mien, pourvu que l’essentiel soit dit : que le Père du Ciel nous désire et nous aime outre mesure […] Que le souffle reçu par Pierre du Souffle de Dieu entraîne ses lecteurs plus loin que leurs horizons souvent brouillés par la peur !"--Résumé de l'éditeur.


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Tourism Destination Management
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ISBN: 3039214721 3039214713 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book collected studies focused on the management of tourist destinations. Destinations are complex and adaptive systems, where the different elements that make them up have to be oriented towards achieving a common objective that improves the competitiveness of the destination. Five main lines of research on tourist destinations can be established: 1) the management, planning, and marketing of destinations, with special attention to the tourism supply chain, communication, and integral management; 2) the sustainability of resources and capabilities; 3) the renewal of destinations in order to update their offer and main resources to maintain competitiveness; 4) online reputation and communication through social media in order to create and enhance a strong brand image and customer loyalty; and 5) the application of new technologies in order to develop smart destinations. The book is made up of five research studies that focus on analyzing the transition towards a more circular tourist activity in hotels, image as a competitive factor of destinations, the value of cultural creativity, the coherence of online reputation, and the relationship between hotel prices and online reputation in different tourist destinations.


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Les marchés fermiers comme atout récréatif des destinations touristiques. Analyse régionale des marchés fermiers wallons.
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Liège Université de Liège (ULiège)

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Face à l'insatisfaction du système agroalimentaire conventionnel globalisé, plusieurs mouvements alternatifs d’alimentation émergent à travers le monde. Ces mouvements se développent autour d’un certain nombre de problématiques telles que la santé, l’environnement, la qualité de l'alimentation ou encore la justice sociale, menacés par le système actuel. Parmi ces alternatives, les marchés fermiers sont souvent décrits comme des lieux faisant face à ces problématiques. Ils sont vus comme une source de produits de qualité, durables et équitables. Certains spécialistes les voient également comme des lieux de rencontres et d’échanges entre des populations de divers horizons. D’autres chercheurs reconnaissent leur capacité à animer les lieux sur lesquels ils s’implantent. Néanmoins, les articles scientifiques portant sur cette thématique sont peu nombreux en Wallonie.
L’objectif de cette recherche est d’explorer l’interaction entre le phénomène des marchés fermiers et l’activité touristique à l’échelle de la Wallonie. Etant un phénomène peu connu et non étudié en Wallonie, cet objet d’étude sera défini à l’aide d’une analyse comparative des définitions proposées à l’échelle mondiale. Sur base de cette définition, un recensement est opéré afin d’établir un inventaire à l’échelle de la Wallonie. Des tests d’indépendance Chi² sont ensuite réalisés afin de vérifier cette interaction entre les marchés fermiers et l’activité touristique. 
Analysé sous une dimension régionale, l’aspect récréatif des marchés fermiers peut également être étudié à une échelle plus fine : une enquête a été réalisée sur plusieurs marchés fermiers sélectionnés afin de rassembler des informations à son sujet. Séparée en plusieurs parties, cette enquête permet de récolter des données concernant le profil des visiteurs, les critères de visite que ces derniers considèrent comme importants et les différentes fonctions des marchés fermiers. L’échelle de Likert est utilisée pour récupérer l’information relative aux fonctions et aux critères. Grâce à une Analyse des Correspondances Multiples (ACM), une typologie des visiteurs est établie. Une fois la population enquêtée partitionnée, une analyse de distribution est réalisée sur les fonctions et les critères de visite afin d’étudier les similarités et les différences entre les sous-populations. 
A travers cette recherche, nous avons pu observer une certaine influence entre les marchés fermiers wallons et la distribution de l’activité touristique en Wallonie. De plus, un premier inventaire régional fut réalisé. La typologie des visiteurs a principalement mis en évidence des populations caractérisées par un facteur « distance au marché fermier » et un facteur « enfants ». L’analyse des fonctions et des critères a montré que les fonctions et les critères n’étaient pas nécessairement identiques entre les sous-populations étudiées : les non-touristes accordent généralement moins d’importance aux éléments récréatifs que les touristes et les excursionnistes. Cette différence observée entre ces sous-populations mène à des politiques de développement territorial adaptées à chacune d'entre elles. Faced with the dissatisfaction of the globalized conventional agri-food system, several alternative food movements are emerging around the world. These movements are developing around a number of issues, such as health, the environment, food quality or even social justice and these are threatened by the current system. Among these alternatives, farmers' markets are often described as places facing these issues. They are perceived as a source of quality, sustainable and fairtrade products. Some specialists also regard them as places where people from different backgrounds can meet and exchange. Other researchers recognize their ability to animate the places where they set up. Nevertheless, there are few scientific articles on this topic in Wallonia.
The objective of this research is to explore the interaction between the phenomenon of farmers' markets and tourist activity across Wallonia. This phenomenon is little known and has not yet been studied in Wallonia. This object of study will be defined by means of a comparative analysis of the proposed definitions on a worldwide scale. On the basis of this definition, a census is carried out in order to accomplish an inventory across Wallonia. Chi² independence tests are then used to verify this interaction between farmers' markets and tourism activity. 
Analysed from a regional perspective, the recreational aspect of farmers' markets can also be studied on a finer scale: a survey is performed on several selected farmers' markets to gather information about them. This survey is divided in several parts and data is collected on the profile of visitors, the visit criteria they consider important and the different functions of farmers' markets. The Likert scale is used to retrieve information about functions and criteria. Thanks to a Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), a typology of visitors is established. Once the surveyed population is partitioned, a distribution analysis is performed on visit functions and criteria to study similarities and differences between sub-populations. 
Through this research, some influences between Walloon farmers' markets and the distribution of tourist activity in Wallonia have been observed. In addition, a first regional inventory was carried out. The visitor typology mainly highlighted populations characterized by a "distance to the farmer's market" and a "children's" factor. The analysis of functions and criteria showed that functions and criteria were not necessarily identical between the studied sub-populations : non-tourists generally attach less importance to recreational elements than tourists and excursionists. This difference observed between sub-populations leads to territorial development policies adapted to each of them.


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Small cities with big dreams : creative placemaking and branding strategies
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ISBN: 9780815391661 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, NY Routledge


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Tourism planning and destination marketing
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ISBN: 1787562913 178756293X 1787562921 1787562948 9781787562912 9781787562929 Year: 2019 Publisher: Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing,

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Destination marketing relies on planning, organisation, and successful strategies and tactics. Tourism Planning and Destination Marketing provides an in-depth understanding of the tourism marketing environment, including destination branding, distribution channels, etourism, digital media, and sustainable and responsible tourism practices. It is a useful guide for tourism marketers, including destination management organisations (DMOs), who are increasingly using innovative tools and evolving technologies to engage with prospective visitors. Moreover, this title sheds light on the latest developments in travel, hospitality, festivals and events, as the contributing authors have critically analysed the global tourism marketing environments that comprise a wide array of economic, socio-cultural, technological and environmental realities. This book explores advances in tourism planning and destination marketing theory for the interest of both researchers and scholars. Furthermore, it is an invaluable resource for a wide range of industry practitioners, including consultants, senior executives and managers who work for destination management organisations, tourism offices, hotels, inbound/outbound tour operators and travel agents.


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Grace, Predestination, and the Permission of Sin : A Thomistic Analysis
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ISBN: 0813232554 9780813232553 9780813232546 0813232546 Year: 2019 Publisher: Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University ofAmerica Press,

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"This book discusses Thomistic commentary on the topics of physical premotion, grace, and the permission of sin, especially as these relate to the mysteries of predestination and reprobation. The author examines the fundamental tenets of the classical Thomistic account, and on this basis critiques the 20th century revisionist theories of Domingo Banez, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Francisco Marin-Sola, Jacques Maritain, Bernard Lonergan, and Jean-Herve Nicolas. In conclusion, the implications of the traditional view are considered in light of the spiritual life"--


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The digital city : media and the social production of place
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ISBN: 9781479839216 1479839213 9781479882199 1479882194 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York New York University Press

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Shows how digital media connects people to their lived environments Every day, millions of people turn to small handheld screens to search for their destinations and to seek recommendations for places to visit. They may share texts or images of themselves and these places en route or after their journey is complete. We don’t consciously reflect on these activities and probably don’t associate these practices with constructing a sense of place. Critics have argued that digital media alienates users from space and place, but this book argues that the exact opposite is true: that we habitually use digital technologies to re-embed ourselves within urban environments. The Digital City advocates for the need to rethink our everyday interactions with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world. Drawing on five case studies from global and mid-sized cities to illustrate the concept of “re-placeing,” Germaine R. Halegoua shows how different populations employ urban broadband networks, social and locative media platforms, digital navigation, smart cities, and creative placemaking initiatives to turn urban spaces into places with deep meanings and emotional attachments. Through timely narratives of everyday urban life, Halegoua argues that people use digital media to create a unique sense of place within rapidly changing urban environments and that a sense of place is integral to understanding contemporary relationships with digital media. (Provided by publisher)


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Scenarios and Indicators for Sustainable Development–Towards A Critical Assessment of Achievements and Challenges
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ISBN: 3038976733 3038976725 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Globalization and telecoupling are enhancing the complexity of the coupled socio-ecological system constituted by the interaction between the global ecosphere and the anthroposphere. As a result, the demand for tools to identify transformative innovations, assess future risks, and support precautionary decisions for sustainability is growing by the day in business and politics. Scenarios are a means of simplification, reducing the real-world complexity to a limited number of essential factors to analyze their interactions and support policy formulation, with indicators as communication and monitoring tools. In particular, in a time of fake news and alternative truths a critical reflection amongst producers and users of scenarios and indicators is overdue; the capability for critical self-reflection is what distinguishes science from pseudo-science, and is a condition of trust. The authors of this book test established measurement and modeling approaches against new challenges, assess the weaknesses of prevailing innovation theories and the political-ideological embedment of archetypical scenarios, highlight deficits in taking the physical basics into account, and the need to understand global interaction and the stepwise process of energy transitions, point out technical as well as conceptual weaknesses in data collection, harmonization and indicator generation, always with a view to solving problems.


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Sustainable Directions in Tourism
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ISBN: 3039217739 3039217720 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Within the framework of tourism companies and tourist destinations, the question of sustainability is gaining importance. Tourists are increasingly aware of the importance of sustainability criteria, awarding greater value to sustainable destinations. Sustainability refers to a wide range of aspects related to climate change, the economic organization of tourism, social values or questions, job creation, and the necessary protection of the culture of destinations and the environment. Therefore, there is a need for studies that consider these aspects in order to achieve the sustainable development of tourist destinations. Fundamental to this is discovering to what degree tourism companies and destinations approach these questions in the strategies they use to deal with problems stemming from their attempts to be more sustainable. Conceptual papers and empirical research on the economic, social, cultural, and environmental aspects related to tourism companies and destinations are welcome. Studies that analyze how these questions and the concept of sustainability are included in tourism companies and destinations are necessary in these modern times. This book was established for these reasons, dedicated to examining sustainability in tourism. The papers included in this Special Issue can help us to determine the new directions being addressed in the research on sustainability tourism.

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the “health” of rural settlements --- sport tourism --- physical environment (PhE) --- tourism evaluation --- hotel industry --- internet search index --- deep learning framework --- visitor satisfaction --- discrete choice experiments --- invasive species control --- tourist satisfaction --- all-for-one tourism --- spatial analysis --- choice experiment --- two stage on-site sampling --- tourism and sustainability --- Apuseni mountains --- sporting event --- sustainability services marketing matrix --- compartmentalisation --- climate change --- regression discontinuity design --- supply chain --- TOWS matrix --- essential marketing --- LSTM model --- A’WOT --- time series --- museum planning --- sustainable daily practices --- negative externalities --- event quality --- sustainability --- certification --- sustainable development --- islands --- young adults --- semantic analysis --- sense of belonging --- agritourism --- behavioral intentions --- purchasing --- motivation --- pro-social/pro-environmental behavior --- tourism --- ecolabel adoption --- hotel accommodation demands --- tourism indicators --- local community --- destination development --- forecasting performance --- inbound tourism --- China --- visitor behavior --- cluster analysis --- campsites --- science museum --- qualitative methodology --- place attachment --- forecasting --- mountain areas --- ecolabel --- electricity --- tourists’ preferences --- value and tourism --- sustainable tourism --- strategic planning --- regional disparity --- community-based tourism --- forecast through a logistic model --- PM10 --- constraint --- air pollution --- learning-based tourism --- hotel management --- ICT


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Space and planning in secondary cities : Reflections from South Africa
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ISBN: 192842435X 1928424341 Year: 2019 Publisher: Bloemfontein UJ Press

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Much of the urban research focuses on the large metropolitan areas in South Africa. This book assesses spatial planning in the second-tier cities of the country. Secondary cities are vital as they perform essential regional, and in some cases, global economic roles and help to distribute the population of a country more evenly across its surface. Apartheid planning left South African cities fragmented segregated and with low densities. Post-apartheid policies aim to reverse these realities by emphasising integration, higher densities and upgrading. Achieving these aims has been challenging and often the historical patterns continue. The evidence shows that two opposing patterns prevail, namely increased densities and continued urban sprawl. This book presents ten case studies of spatial planning and spatial transformation in secondary cities of South Africa. The book frames these case studies against complexity theory and suggests that the post-apartheid response to apartheid planning represents a linear deviation from history. The ten case studies then reveal how difficult it is for local decision-makers to find appropriate responses and how current responses often result in contradictory results. Often these cities are highly vulnerable and they find it difficult to plan in the context of uncertainty. The book also highlights how these cities find it difficult to stand on their own against the influence of interest groups (property developers, mining companies, traditional authorities, other spheres of government). The main reasons include weak municipal finance statements, the dependence on national and provincial government for capital expenditure, limited investment in infrastructure maintenance, the lack of planning capacity, the inability to implement plans and the unintended and sometimes contrary outcomes of post-apartheid planning policies.

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City & town planning - architectural aspects --- Secondary cities --- spatial transformation --- Secondary cities and research and policy in South Africa --- spatial planning --- Post-apartheid spatial policy --- complex spaces --- Complex adaptive systems --- Socioecological systems --- Implications for planning in complex systems --- Adaptive co-evolution --- Collaborative and adaptive planning and leadership --- Urban sprawl --- Gated estates --- Drakenstein Municipality’s spatial problems --- sprawl --- Policy for spatial containment --- Spatial planning for the Limpopo energy hub --- Mining booms and busts --- Settlement planning and housing policy for mining towns --- Infrastructure --- Spatial change --- Spatial transformation and complexity --- Complexity of planning in Mahikeng --- Planning in a difficult space --- Policy and planning frameworks --- Demographics --- Planning for spatial transformation --- Matjhabeng: planning in the face of the Free State Goldfields decline --- Context and changes in Matjhabeng --- Welkom’s economy and global market forces --- Spatial changes in Matjhabeng --- 1990–2013 --- Spatial planning in Matjhabeng: 1994–2018 --- The 2005/2006 spatial development framework --- The 2013 spatial development framework --- The 2015 Matjhabeng by-laws --- Precinct plans --- realistic plans in a situation of economic stagnation --- Mbombela: a growing provincial capital and tourism destination --- Spatial and population change --- Municipal infrastructure --- Main spatial challenges --- Spatial priorities and plans --- N4 Maputo corridor --- Participatory planning --- Balancing urban and rural land development --- Integrated development --- Msunduzi: spatially integrating Kwazulu-Natal’s diverse capital --- the contribution of the spatial development framework to spatial transformation --- Factors affecting spatial change in Polokwane Local Municipality --- Settlement hierarchy --- Corridors and transportation --- Water and sanitation infrastructure --- Spatial planning problems in Rustenburg --- Internal dynamics that hinder spatial transformation --- External dynamics that hinder spatial transformation --- Quality of the spatial development framework and planning process --- Spatial planning and complexity lessons --- Complexity as a lens to assess spatial planning instruments --- Interconnected nodes and car-free transport --- Optimal land use --- Resource custodianship --- Promotion of agriculture and food production --- and preservation of heritage --- Complexity in spatial planning for Stellenbosch Municipality --- complexity theory and spatial change

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