The article investigates the development of carbon prices in Europe from 2005 to 2009 and its drivers, before providing the essential precepts for the Copenhagen negotiations. The experience of the European carbon market will highlight negotiations on a major issue: the carbon pricing....

The problem of inter-generational preservation and management of socio-environmental entities, like biodiversity, and so, the valuation of these entities for their own sake, is a central issue for sustainability. The ecocentric approach of Sustainable Development (SD) tackles this problematic by...

The purpose of this paper is to critically discuss the main advantages of introducing environmental regulation tools such as tradable permits markets. Current climate policies, the negotiations under way at the international level, and past experiences with emissions trading in the USA and...

L'automobile a conquis le monde. Instrument de liberté, pourvoyeur d'emplois et de croissance, objet souvent statutaire, l'automobile traverse une crise en Europe notamment. Son succès est désormais planétaire mais quel est son avenir ? Sera-t-elle demain aussi désirée qu'hier ? Pour...

Secteur en pleine mutation, l'agriculture doit faire face, en même temps, à la libéralisation des marchés et à une société toujours plus exigeante en termes de qualité : qualité des produits, mais aussi préservation de l'environnement. Tel est le constat des auteurs qui s'accordent par...

Previous literature has identified oil and gas prices as being the main drivers of CO2 prices in a univariate Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) econometric framework (Alberola et al., 2008; Oberndorfer, 2009). By contrast, we argue in this article that the...

This chapter briefly summarizes the causes and consequences of soil erosion, before presenting examples of effective soil conservation technologies (SCT), such as contour-based cropping, cover crops, mulching and geo-textiles, and based on case studies from northern Thailand and northern...