We outline the determinants of local public policies for farmland preservation and urban expansion. We first rely on the literature and on a purposely-designed field study of municipalities in Southern France to propose a theoretical framework better suited to the French situation. The model...

Landscape amenities influencing location choice are usually described in standard economic models, by concepts such as accessibility to urban landscaped areas (a park or an urban forest, for example), or to suburban open spaces. Following the 1997 GEOGHEGAN and al. studies, we propose a method...

The electronic purse is one of the latest smart card applications. However, the French Monéo electronic purse meets considerable difficulties to its widespread diffusion meanwhile several foreign electronic purses are successful. A test survey in the South of France allows us to analyse the...

Transport generates many externalities, some related to atmospheric pollution. In this paper, we focus on two: greenhouse gases, and local pollution. In the search for optimal transport policies, these two externalities have usually been analysed separately. Here, we study them jointly, in a...

Vaccination campaigns to prevent the spread of epidemics are successful only if the targeted populations subscribe to the recommendations of health authorities. However, because compulsory vaccination is hardly conceivable in modern democracies, governments need to convince their populations...