Livres, films, etc.

Revue Des Livres.

Jean Claude Amiard est très prolixe, après Les risques chimiques environnementaux (2011), il publie aujourd’hui un ouvrage sur le risque radioactif. Tout comme le précédent, ce livre est très complet et n’hésite pas à redéfinir les connaissances de base, revoir toutes les définitions pour chaque sujet abordé. Ceci est vrai pour la radioactivité, la physique nucléaire, l’organisation du monde vi...

Revue Des Livres Book Review

In the preface to his new book Laws, Theories and Patterns in Ecology, Walter Dodds tells us that his own search for general principles in ecology started over “a pitcher or two” with a colleague and that he hoped the book would provide a “fruitful topic for discussion among ecologists”. It was precisely in that spirit that a group of ecologists at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies got to...

Books Received - Livres Re¸us.

Ackerman, P.L., R.J. Sternberg and R. Glaser (eds.), 1989. Learning and Individual Differences. New York: W.H. Freeman. This anthology is a much needed update of the field of learning and individual differences. Written by many of today's most distinguished psychologists, the chapters in this book not only discuss the latest contemporary research but offer a critical review of the progress made...

Introduction etc

Bilateral and multilateral development cooperation agencies are to an increasing extent promoting and adopting a sector-wide approach (SWAp) in their development cooperation. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), for example, joined their first sector-wide approach cooperation in the late 90s, and today they are involved in SWAps in countries in Africa, Asia and Latin...

Reports etc