Despite its real difficulty to disseminate and profoundly change the dominant economic regulations, sustainable development has given rise to significant new practices both public and private. In this overview article, which also introduces this thematic issue of the journal, we focus on two...

The aim of this introductory paper is to put into perspective some key methodological and practical issues raised by the analysis and implementation of Sustainable Development (SD) approaches in recent years. The key point made here is that, while SD analysis has gained in depth and...

Zuindeau B. (2006) Spatial approach to sustainable development: challenges of equity and efficacy, Regional Studies 40, 459-470. Examining sustainable development by favouring a spatial approach leads one to modify the definition of the challenges relating to this issue. The present paper...

Despite recent studies seeking to test the relevance of Régulation theory in the environmental field,<np pagenum="262"/> there are few attempts at making an empirical validation of these contributions. The article would like to do this by emphasising the analysis of the diversity of profiles and policies in the...

The use of the theoretical tools provided by proximity economics to address environmental questions, and the emergence of analyses revitalising the role of the spatial dimension in environmental problems, date from the late 1990s. This paper first aims to provide a review of the research...

As for many problems of a social nature, behaviour in the face of environmental risk is likely to take two major forms: on the one hand, the expression of dissatisfaction, on the other hand, distancing in relation to the problem; voice in the first case, exit in the second. The result of this...

This paper follows recent research about the importance, the variety and the development of innovation in the service industries. We study the innovations which have appeared in the fast growing activity of mobile telecommunication services in France. These innovations have essentially been...