Sustainability assessment has emerged as a key decision-support process in development cooperation in response to the growing acknowledgement of the impacts of global change. This paper aims at conceptualizing the effectiveness of sustainability assessment as applied in development cooperation,...

Le développement durable est un système qui associe les divers modes du développement (économique, financier, social, culturel..) aux normes de l'ordre écologique. Cet ordre naturel n'est pas compatible avec le (dés) ordre social, ce qui nécessite dans un cadre libéral, selon Quesnay, la...

In terms of energy resources, Canada is an important player on the world scene. However, the energy systems of the Canadian provinces and territories are much diversified and a national energy strategy is missing in order to optimize the management of energy systems.

This paper presents an analysis of Canadian energy and climate policies in terms of the coherence between federal and provincial/territorial strategies. After briefly describing the institutional, energy, and climate contexts, we perform a SWOT analysis on the themes of energy security, energy...