Since the publication of path-breaking contributions on the governance of environmental resources in the early 1990s many political initiatives have been taken, many governance experiments have been run, and a large multidisciplinary field of research has opened up. The aim of this...

Inspired by the theory of financial markets with transaction costs, we study a concept of essential supremum in the framework where a random partial order in View the MathML source is lifted to the space View the MathML source of d-dimensional random variables. In contrast to the classical...

The interdependency of socio-ecological systems and the increased reach of human activity have led to major political and scientific challenges in the governance of environmental resources. This chapter reviews the state of our knowledge on the matter. The chapter begins by discussing the...

This paper investigates the cost of biomass co-firing in European coal power stations. We propose a tractable and original method, that enables us to get expressions of biomass and CO2 breakeven points for co-firing in different types of coal plants. We call them carbon switching price and...

Self-checkout technologies (self-checkout or self-scanning systems) enjoy rapid development since the end of the 2000’s. Through qualitative interviews with retailers’ clients, this paper analyses their perception and usage of these new technologies. It helps to understand the process of...

This article aims to confront Foucault’s (2001) concept of heterotopia (2001) – the physical location of an utopia – with a "new, "informal and non-institutionalized retail space for gleaning second hand items : the sidewalk during the time of bulky item collection. A qualitative survey...

The experience of visiting supermarket takes an undeniable position in the retailing field. That’s why this paper aims to propose and validate a model that incorporates social interactions, perceived value and intention to revisit department stores. The results of 282 observations’ survey...

Since the creation of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS), European power producers have monitored carbon emissions resulting from the composition of their production. Fuel switching is the main short-term abatement measure under the EU ETS. It consists in substituting combined...

Improving information about individual opportunity costs of deforestation agents has the potential to increase the efficiency of REDD when it takes the form of a payment for environmental services scheme. However, objectives pursued in REDD projects may vary across policy makers. Within a...