Governments and developing agencies promote participatory approaches in solving common pool resource problems, such as in the water sector. Two main participatory approaches have been applied separately, namely negotiation and mediation. In this paper the authors apply the Role-Playing Game that...

Worldwide growing water scarcity has increased the call for economic instruments to stimulate rational water use in agriculture. Furthermore, cost-recovery is now widely accepted as a cornerstone of sustainable water management. In many developing countries, where agricultural water use is often...

[eng] This article describes the investment behaviour of the wine producer in the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, as a result of pollution control legislation. It is based on an in-depth study of this sector, which has been conducted in close collaboration with the Water Agency of...

This article first presents the urban domestic water access situation in Mozambique. Then it analyzes the country's tariff system as a tool to recover water supply costs and to secure equity and affordability for the urban households served. The analysis focused on those households with...

[eng] Farms income in the gard from 1984 to 1991 : was diversification worth ? . This study investigates the benefits of diversification in a vineyard specialised region in the South of France, 174 farmers accounting data over 8 years (1984-1991). Two meanings are given to Diversification :...

[eng] Glasshouse farms growth and financing in Loire-Atlantique. The region of Loire-Atlantique has a long tradition in vegetable growing. It has built one of the largest areas of glasshouses of the northern half of France. As most of the septentrional european regions, its growth was strongly...

[eng] Regulation of herbicide pollution in vineyard: a simulation in a mediterranean area - We investigate in a hydrologic-economic integrated model framework, how different incentive instruments aiming at regulating the emission of no-point source pollutants (herbicides) do heva an impact on...

[fre] L'une des limites des modèles linéaires appliqués à l'étude des décisions des agriculteurs est l'hypothèse que tous les paramètres définissant le modèle (prix, rendements, coefficients techniques, quantités de ressources) sont connus avec certitude. La prise en compte de leur...