Search results for "Environmental Studies"
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The Physical Economy of France (1830–2015). The History of a Parasite?
2019
Abstract This article explores long-term trends and patterns of material use in France for a 185-year period. It is the first long-term study of material flows for France with national and yearly data for most of the period. Based on a material flow analysis (MFA) that is fully consistent with current standards of economy-wide MFAs and covers domestic extraction, imports, and exports of materials, we investigated the evolution of the French metabolism from industrialization to financialized capitalism. Over the whole period, there is a 9-fold increase in domestic material consumption, an expansion of material use per capita, and a spectacular addition of abiotic resources (fossil fuels and …
“Out of Sight, Out of Mind?”: The Role of Physical Stressors, Cognitive Appraisal, and Positive Emotions in Employees’ Health
2017
This study analyzes the mediating role of the appraisal of environmental stressors in the relationship between physical characteristics in the offices and health symptoms. It also studies the moderating role of positive emotions in the relationship between physical characteristics and the appraisal of environmental stressors using a diary study on 59 office workers ( n = 432 time points) and sensor data. The results show that the appraisal of environmental stressors mediates the relationship between physical office characteristics and health symptoms, emphasizing the important link of stress appraisal in the stressors–strain relationship. The results also show that positive emotions modera…
Neolithic Human Societies and Woodlands in the North-Western Mediterranean Region: Wood and Charcoal Analysis
2017
An overview of woodland history in the north-western Mediterranean region, based on charcoal analysis (Anthracology) from Mesolithic and Neolithic sites, is proposed for the Mediterranean areas of France, Spain and Portugal. The taxonomic identification of charcoal fragments and the diachronic variations of taxa frequencies provide, for each settlement, an accurate image of the local vegetal cover. During the end of the last glaciation, beginning of the Holocene, vegetation dynamics reflects the evolution of climatic and geographic conditions. Any potential ecological impact by hunter-fisher-gatherer communities (Mesolithic) remains invisible; the same comment applies to the farming-herding…
Territories linking places and communities in the transition to sustainable development
2014
What impact does man have on the soils of the Pasques woods?
2022
About twenty kilometers north-west of Dijon, 26 deserted sites, ranging from Antiquity to the late Middle Ages, are listed in the woods of Haut Val Suzon on the margins of the finages of Saint-Martin-du-Mont, Saint -Seine-l'Abbaye, Val-Suzon, Panges and Pasques. Remarkably, the Bois de Pasques brings together 14 of them. In this small space, there are 2 ancient sites, 2 from the High Middle Ages, 1 from the 11th-12th century and 2 from the 13th century, one of which was recently destroyed and one still active but moved during Modern Times. To these are added 7 habitats established, occupied and deserted during the 14th century. Eleven sites were explored by soundings to ensure their dating …
La romanisation des constructions de Bibracte : un oppidum au centre d'un territoire aux ressources géologiques variées
2019
National audience
« La vaisselle en céramique », « Les terres cuites architecturales », in Vermard L. (dir.), Laffite J.-D., Ritz S., Grand Est, Sivry-sur-Meuse, RD 96…
2022
Les nouvelles formes d’agriculture urbaine. D’une innovation du centre de la métropole à un outil pour tous les territoires régionaux ?
2022
Le vin et le lieu
2018
The sedimentary and remote-sensing reflection of biomass burning in Europe
2018
Aim: We provide the first European-scale geospatial training set relating the charcoal signal in surface lake sediments to fire parameters (number, intensity and area) recorded by satellite moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors. Our calibration is intended for quantitative reconstructions of key fire-regime parameters by using sediment sequences of microscopic (MIC from pollen slides, particles 10-500 µm) and macroscopic charcoal (MAC from sieves, particles > 100 µm). Location: North-south and east-west transects across Europe, covering the mediterranean, temperate, alpine, boreal and steppe biomes. Time period: Lake sediments and MODIS active fire and burned area…