The term tipping point has experienced explosive popularity across multiple disciplines over the last decade. Research on social-ecological systems (SES) has contributed to the growth and diversity of the term's use. The diverse uses of the term obscure potential differences between tipping behavior in natural and social systems, and issues of caus...
Evaluating holistically environmental impacts of land planning policies implies to take into account several aspects, intimately related both to territorial features and to production-consumption patterns, which have a specific local character and a potential impact at different scales. To address these chal- lenges, life cycle thinking and assessm...
Our project is to develop and support a reference ontology repository for the agronomic domain. By reusing the NCBO BioPortal technology, we have already designed and implemented a prototype ontology repository for plants and a few crops. We plan to turn that prototype into a real service to the community. The AgroPortal project aims at reusing the...
Les différents termes utilisés en biogéographie pour désigner les formations végétales (forêts, fourrés, recrûs et savanes) se retrouvent largement dans les jargons des acteurs de la conservation, plus que dans ceux appliqués par les acteurs du développement. Cette différence reflète l'écart entre les aspects pratiques et les aspects théoriques de ...
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This paper aims at presenting the research work of formalisation of dependability-related localisation attributes within the framework of the European project QualiSaR. Processing of natural language is used with the aim of creating a structure of dependability and safety-related terms for evaluating automated systems in general and satellite posit...
