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The author develops a method of localization in equivariant cohomology based on the notion of partition of unity in cohomology. The localization procedure corresponds to the factorization of the natural morphism \(I:H^\infty_G(M) \to H^{-\infty}_G(M)\). The most important result concerning localization formulas is Theorem 3.7 which gives a certain factorization of \(I\). The author shows that this result gives a refinement of the localization of Atiyah-Bott, Berline-Vergne for the ``abelian'' case (in the frame given by Bismut). For a Hamiltonian action of a torus he realizes the localization on the critical points of the square of the moment map. So, his localization formulas refine in the ``non-abelian'' case those of Jeffrey-Kirwan-Witten.