This paper examines what are the stakes and conflicts between the developed and the developing countries around the concept of sustainable development. The aim is to appreciate the role of multilateral trade negotiations in the evolution of this debate and the adequacy and limits of the tools...

</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...

The article focuses on changes in the labour market and education issues in developing countries. It aims at analizing the lifelong education issue in the Sub-Saharan countries in a sustainable development framework. More specifically, we underline the contribution of academic professional...

</titre> This work questions the nature and the significance of a post 2012 international agreement similar to the Kyoto Protocol. We show that the Protocol?s mechanisms fall under a "weak" approach of sustainability which hardly calls into question the primacy of the economy on social and...

</titre> Sustainable development leads to a marginalization of its social dimension. This dimension has acknowledged a deep analytical renewal these recent years. The interactive dynamics of poverty and inequality are nowadays addressed together. The social dimension has been incorporated into the...

Sustainable development actions should create a link between the scale of policies, institutions and regulations and the local level of the action. A good knowledge of the local environment is a necessary prerequisite, but not always sufficient, to guarantee the success of the action. This is...

The Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, brougt the concept of sustainable development into the limelight. But the contradictory relationships between development and environment are tied to the difficult relationships between economy and ecology. The rush of the nearly totally...

«Sustainable development» is a term that was created by international institutions twenty years ago to qualify the third «decade of development». This phrase has had a real success, so much that a large number of actors use it. At the same time, questions about its real meaning still remain....