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Groundwater governance in Cuyama Valley, California unites the structural dilemmas of neoliberal environmental governance: a weak state, powerful corporations, a population called to participate but not to decide, and a limited vital resource. Creating institutions of self-governance in the conflictual domain of groundwater use draws local actors into the center of political struggles and strategies, as the State of California avoids governing or limiting groundwater use, purportedly for fear of getting embroiled in costly and lengthy lawsuits with private agroindustry. The SGMA process illustrates the power of property and money in the political game of sustainable resource governance, but it also confronts powerful actors with objectivizing satellite surveys, that point to absolute limits and challenge the growth myth. Institution-building for groundwater governance in Cuyama exposes the strategies of agricultural corporations towards local residents, highlighting the tensions inscribed in the very design of SGMA's polycentric governance structure, between the power to decide and the power to advise. Local residents have appropriated the language of science to contest strategies of denial by the agro-corporations, and to speak reason to unreasonable water users.

The article examines that the Wide Angle of Business & Society points out, Frank Knight strength that is to think of uncertainty and attitude towards it as what makes thinkable and desirable institution. Topics include examines that at least in the long term of equilibrium situations they assume that the second part of Risk, Uncertainty and Profit (RUP) has been ignored for this.

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Abstract: Since the period of adolescence was first identified in the mid nineteenth century, its evolution has, unsurprisingly, lead to the creation of “houses” to accommodate adolescents. Today, each department of France is developing its own respective system. The diversity originates from their founders’ unique perspective and the ideas of how adolescents should be treated. The stake of these houses relies on putting them back into perspective by looking at the history of adolescence and its precursors. In fact, by studying, on the one hand, the confluence of our representations regarding the period of adolescence and, on the other hand, the evolution of our institutions, it is possible to report issues with the adolescent houses of today and deduce what they will be like tomorrow. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The article presents abstracts on sociological topics which include institution building in Europe in the 20th century, European collective memory, and a paper on the reorganization of immigration policy in Switzerland.

Abstract: “Maisons des adolescents” (MDA) hold an original position among institutions in charge of adolescents. Welcome, accessibility and multidisciplinarity distinguish them in their missions with adolescents leading professionals practicing there to think about innovative devices and how to set them in motion. Based on their experience, both authors intend to define a welcome function at MDA. The various settings existing within the welcome activity aim at facilitating relationships between adolescents and professionals as well as supporting ties for adolescents who can invest differentiated spaces and times. Play can arise from transversality between these spaces and times as long as alliance with professionals is “good enough” to facilitate elaboration and restoration of representations. Welcome constitutes a specific tool and a key moment of adolescents’ progress within MDA as they gradually become subject of their evolution. Besides, these devices, which take into consideration particularities of MDA, appear to lead to a new clinical posture. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]