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...

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...

The problematic of sustainable development (SD) is mainly directed on the issues of intergenerational equity. The study of intragenerational equity is less frequent. In this article, we deal with a particular form of intragenerational equity, the territorial equity. Beyond a denunciation of...

While there is today a large consensus around the extent and causes of climate change and the environment deterioration as well as on their mid-long term economic consequences if nothing is done, the international community remains divided regarding the nature, the scale and the schedule of the...