These ôTechnical Guidelines for Economic Valuation of Inland Small-scale Fisheries in Developing Countriesö are one of the outputs of the project on ôFood security and poverty alleviation through improved valuation and governance of river fisheries in Africaö. The guidelines draw upon...

</titre> The first part is a short presentation of the debates around the 2008 and 2009 WDR?s of the World Bank, devoted to the role of rural and urban spaces in development. The second part is focused upon the relations between actors and territories in development thinking, with a peculiar...

CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research inspired an extensive discussion on the Lisbon Strategy, its goals and objectives, successes and failures. The fervent debate, which took place in Warsaw at the end of 2004, investigated the future of the Strategy in Europe and Poland. The...

Sustainable development is another philosophy of human society, where the main purpose is to ensure life on earth as a period of time. At the heart of this new philosophy is man wherever he occupied on earth. To lay the foundations of sustainable development each country must take into account...

L'industrie chimique a mis en place de longue date un programme de gestion et de prévention des risques dénommé “Responsible Care” (« Engagement de Progrès » en Français). Ce programme préfigure, même s'il ne le recouvre pas exactement, le thème du développement durable apparu au...

Are natural resources a “curse” or a “blessing”? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a...

The aim of this paper is to explore the connections between the time dimension of economic phenomena and that of natural ones within the context of global (joint emissions of the energy sector) or local (joint product of waste) pollutions affecting present and future generations. Discounting...