What Belgium Can Teach Bosnia: The Uses of Autonomy in 'Divided House' States [PDF]
, 2003 Belgium and Bosnia can be understood as “divided house” states, which contain proportionally similar groups with opposing views regarding whether the state should be more unitary or more decentralised.
Stroschein, S
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Optimization of Facade Wall Building Systems in Walloon Region
, 2015 As our society experiences a significant demographic expansion, 350 000 new households in Wallonia will need to be erected by 2040. However, the Belgian index of construction costs is constantly increasing due to building lots scarcity and high requirements in terms of energy efficiency.
Pierson, Clotilde +2 more
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Walloon Region: An agro-forestry landscape without farmers?
, 2002 Great landscape diversity of Walloon region, actions for a rural renewal, migratory flows back to rural areas and new challenges of Wallon rural area are ...
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Voluntary Agreements and the Environmental Efficiency of Participating Farms [PDF]
Voluntary environmental agreements have been popular with government agencies in several countries. However, many questions remain about their efficiency as a regulatory tool. Recent analyses suggest that they are more effective than classical regulatory
Ordóñez, Andrea, Roosen, Jutta
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Gaming in a benchmarking environment. A non-parametric analysis of benchmarking in the water sector [PDF]
This paper discusses the use of benchmarking in general and its application to the drinking water sector. It systematizes the various classifications on performance measurement, discusses some of the pitfalls of benchmark studies and provides some ...
De Witte, Kristof, Marques, Rui
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Suivi de la percolation du nitrate en terres cultivées par la technique lysimétrique [PDF]
Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2010 Monitoring of nitrate leaching in croplands by lysimeters. The European Nitrates Directive (91/676/CEE) aims at moderating or preventing water pollution with nitrates issued from agricultural practices.
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Working Paper 02-09 - Le système d’innovation en Wallonie [PDF]
The Working Paper analyses the performances of the Walloon innovation system in 2008. This analysis concentrates on the six dimensions of the innovation system: knowledge development, human resources, R&D exploitation, innovation absorption capacity ...
Bernadette Biatour +2 more
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Principaux modèles utilisés en régression logistique [PDF]
Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2011 Main models used in logistic regression. Regression is a commonly used technique for decribing the relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables.
Gillet, A., Brostaux, Y., Palm, R.
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Farm-level Acreage Allocation under Risk [PDF]
We model the area allocation decision problem for a fixed size crop farm under random yields and prices for a risk-averse farmer. We assume that in the short run, the variable input expenses are fixed per hectare and per crop (an assumption that is ...
Frahan, Bruno Henry de +2 more
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Persistent Nonviolent Conflict With No Reconciliation: The Flemish and Walloons in Belgium [PDF]
, 2009 Mnookin and Verbeke describe the nonviolent but very serious conflict in Belgium between the Flemish (Dutch) of the North and the Walloons (French) of the South.
Mnookin, Robert, Verbeke, Alain
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