Cet article évalue le potentiel de soutenabilité du secteur de l'eau urbaine en Europe suite à sa modernisation. L'analyse procède en mobilisant le cadre théorique des régimes institutionnels de ressource et conclue que la modernisation offre un progrès nécessaire mais pas suffisant....

Cet article propose, au regard des douze années d'expérience de la Directive cadre européenne sur l'eau (DCE), d'éclaircir le processus de modernisation de la gestion de l'eau en Europe et d'en discuter la pertinence à l'aube des premières échéances de résultats (2015). En traitant ce...

This article assesses the sustainability potential of the urban water sector in Europe following its modernisation. The analysis uses the theoretical framework of institutional resource regimes. This interpretative framework provides us with a typology of natural resource governance systems...

Cet article propose une nouvelle grille d'analyse, bâtie autour de la notion de " système hydrique urbain " (SHU). Elle permet de caractériser l'état de la gouvernance de l'eau dans les villes. L'élaboration de la grille s'appuie sur le concept d'encastrement institutionnel et, plus...

This article examines the phenomenon of local resistance to regulation by instruments in the water sector. Governance failures are mainly explained by concentrating on governance design, considering regulation as a set of control mechanisms. We propose an alternative perspective by putting the...

Park, Leahey and Funk – PLF – present a thought-provoking contribution to tracking scientific progress by studying the ‘disruptiveness’ of academic publications and patents in a large-N analysis. Their effort – published in Nature 613 (2023) – is timely because the best possible...

Anthropogenic environmental impacts substantially threaten the sustainable development of cities and counties. This paper offers an original assessment of the role played by population, economic growth and technology change in the evolution of local air pollution and soil sealing, using the...

Environmental transitions face the challenge of incentivizing change and governing complexity. Changing perceptions is critical to address these challenges. Perceptions shape policy and directly determine the potential and pathway of environmental transitions. While often addressing risk...

Performance reporting in sunshine regulation is subject to disclosure biases, because agents may game the regulation or encounter di culties in complying. These biases limit the appraisal of the impact of sunshine regulation on performance. We investigate the behavioral causes of such disclosure...

Environmental governance faces inconsistencies limiting its efficiency and ability to frame a sustainable co-evolution of Human and Nature. Regarding natural resource governance in developing countries, frictions in between policy design and property rights allocation cause these...