This paper was developed in the context of the research project entitled GEMCONBIO (Governance and Ecosystems Management for the Conservation of Biodiversity), which is a European FP6-funded project under Priority 7 — Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society. The projects strategic...

Based on socio-economic development and population growth, rapid urbanisation is currently happening in China, leading to urban expansion and land use changes. This, in turn, affects biodiversity, habitats and ecosystem services. It is therefore important to identify and assess the impact of...

Le développement de la publication de rapports consacrés au développement durable oblige à poser certaines questions sur les publics et les objectifs recherchés par les entreprises qui consacrent des moyens souvent importants à cette activité. La réponse qui est le plus souvent fournie...

The economic development of the community must not be viewed as an ordinary quantitative increase, measured in GDP parts. It must be viewed as a whole, considering all the factors that characterise this community. It will be understood as an effect of a performing management, which manifests...

</titre> <alinea/> Our contribution attempts to address links, from a critical point of view, between recent theoretical approaches to civil wars in developing countries and the resource curse hypothesis. In the first part we discuss the recent theoretical approaches to civil conflicts in developing countries...

</titre> <alinea/> The experimentation of sustainable development by Madagascar fit into the global environmental and development frameworks. It is characterized by an original and ambitious system of environmental planning. However, it is confronted with several difficulties : an extrovert sustainable...

The concept of ecotourism is widely misunderstood and it is often used as a marketing instrument in order to promote tourism businesses related to nature. It is well-known that from all sub-sectors of the tourism industry the ecotourism has experienced the fastest growth in the recent years, but...