Cet article présente une analyse de la différenciation des produits et services touristiques dans les espaces ruraux que nous appelons "différenciation cognitive". Il montre comment les cognitions environnementales sont à l’origine d’une interaction positive entre qualité de...

Theoritically, spatially targeted environmental policies are considered optimal, since economic agents tune their efforts according to their environment. But this advantage can be undermined by the high cost of information. We posit that it is possible to reduce the spatial scale and...

Theoritically, spatially targeted environmental policies are considered optimal, since economic agents tune their efforts according to their environment. But this advantage can be undermined by the high cost of information. We posit that it is possible to reduce the spatial scale and...

This paper proposes the study of a special case of the model of the " basket of territorialized goods and services ", the Bresse (France). The agricultural dominating model, based on the modernization and the intensification of agriculture, coexists with many traditional productions. But the...

The paper starts with the wide variability of nonpoint water nitrogenous pollution generated by agriculture. This variability depends especially on climate, soil types and farming systems. Our interdisciplinary researches, mainly based on two sites in France, show that space and time...

Owing to increasing environmental concerns the current trend is to bend technical production systems in order to adapt them to the specific characteristics of the milieu and diversify them. Inherent to such dynamics is the issue of how to design the accompanying environmental policies....

Site-specific characteristics are attributes of tourism services for consumers and a factor influencing their costs and quality for producers. These services are a fine illustration of territorial rents. Using estimates from hedonic price equations, we test the role of environmental/territorial...

The objective of this paper is to show that revisiting the theory of rent can be a useful tool for analysing new perspectives of territorial development. For more than a century, economic theory has been forgetting about the concept or making it commonplace through generalising its use to all...