EU institutions (Commission, Council and Parliament) have adopted the EU doctrine of the Precautionary Principle (PP) in year 2000, whereas the EU is the sole huge region where something called the PP is implemented and controlled by case law. There is nevertheless a huge contrast between this...

Les instruments de politique publique engagent plus qu'eux-mêmes. Ils ont à passer par un processus politique de conception et d'adoption qui en façonne les propriétés, souvent loin des attentes projetées sur ces instruments par l'analyse économique. L'étude de la coordination...

[fre] Le Protocole de Kyoto mettrait-il en péril la compétitivité industrielle des pays ? C’est à cette question qu’est consacré le présent article. L’auteur analyse, tout d’abord, le statut du climat comme bien collectif planétaire et la structuration de l’accord de Kyoto....

Most scientific approaches aim at elucidating a unique order to obtain a scientific image of their object. This strategy revealed efficient in most cases but led researchers to ignore phenomena resulting from the composition of several orders, each time this composition is not an accessory...

This challenging book takes a broad and thought-provoking look at the precautionary principle and its implementation, or potential implementation, in a number of fields. In particular, it explores the challenges faced by public decision-making processes when applying the precautionary principle,...

How did climate change become an economic issue? Why is economic discourse so influential on the public policy of climate change? How can it best contribute to the scientific and public debates? Nine eminent scholars explain in this book both how economics has changed environmental understanding...

Standard conditions of usage of public cost-benefit analysis are no longer met to-day in the field of infrastructure projects, for instance for transportation and other networks. When environmental conflicts are at stake, such a tool is no longer supporting both a decisionmaking process aiming...

Les permis negociables sont devenus une option credible en Europe et en France depuis le protocole de Kyoto de la Convention cadre sur les changements climatiques. Adopte en 1997, ce protocole a reconnu differentes formules de flexibilite permettant le transfert de quotas d’emissions de gaz a...