Improving the seasonal cycle and interannual variations of biomass burning aerosol sources S. Generoso, F.-M. Bréon, Y. Balkanski, O. Boucher, and M. Schulz Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, CEA/CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, CNRS/Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France Received: 31 January 2003 – Acc...

it is difficult to prevent accidents in the transport of hazardous goods, so the development of strategies for managing crisis situations and the optimization of action plans are important. the crisis situation is a continuous event in time when its evolution is unpredictable because it depends on a whole of complex factors resulting from the environment of the crisis. decision making in crisis...

The greening of economic and industrial activities requires that new relationships be formed between private actors who often never met before on the business or policy arenas. To initiate and give direction to the sustainability transition, public actors may choose to become involved in partnerships for policy implementation, next to industrial prime movers. After having catalyzed the process,...

Germany is in the process of transforming its system of electricity generation and distribution. Th e transformation process was advanced by a number of civil society actors keen on dismantling the old centralised, undemocratic, environmentally unsound and unhealthy system, and replacing it with a new one, closer to the people, decentralised and using renewable energies. One type of transformat...