This article critically examines the place given to institutions for the necessary change leading to a sustainable capitalism. Approaches promoting a new mode of consumption and multiactor partnerships are both based on a change process essentially depending on individual behaviours. We put the...

This article proposes a critical assessment of the socio-economic approaches of environment and sustainable development. Unlike the standard analysis which does not admit the embeddedness of economic, social and environmental dimensions, the socio-economic approaches seek to conceptualize these...