Interest for the concept of resilience is growing within development studies, facing climate change and other environmental risks. It has been first studied by the social ecological systems researchers. However we need, first to analyze the relevance and scope of this concept at the micro level,...

Fair Trade aims at promoting fairness through the market. However, in Fair Trade, fairness is far from being clearly defined. Furthermore, Fair Trade has to tackle new trends, such as sustainable development. It is also facing changes as North-North Fair Trade or questionings concerning...

From the Gabonese experience, this article studies the way international pressures about “good governance” have an impact on the organization and the functioning of the health system in a developing country. At first governance and good governance are defined under a critical point of view....

Fragile States is a way of naming this particular category of states that have weak performance, insufficient service delivery, weak administrative and government power, and lack of legal rules. Little consideration is usually made to the fact that their own societies may also be fragile and...

There are many ways to classify ethical mutual funds. One of them is to focus on the kinds of organizational beliefs we could identify in such funds. There are ethical mutual funds in which we could find out financial-oriented beliefs that try to explain or justify the choices made by the fund...

The aim of this paper is to define vehicles of marketing development for a firm offering eco-designed products. The first section defines the concept of eco-design and shows that it is both a technical and a managerial innovation. The second section presents the analytical framework: CSR...

Through the justice principles –equality, time, status, need, efficiency and worth– developed by Jon Elster, we show in this article how fair trade certification for producers is legitimatised by stakeholders. Based on a field investigation with coffee growers in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia...