In this paper we study the interplay between residential location choice, sprawl and water quality. We propose an urban economics model of a, ï¬rst, monocentric, then, polycentric city with two di erent residential areas : sewer-serviced suburbia, with small residential lot size, and exurbia...

Urban sprawl modifies the structure of areas far beyond the actual urban cores, especially via agricultural and residential land markets in peri-urban areas. For an explicit examination of anticipations made on the future use of arable lands, we develop a two-stage hedonic model with a Box-Cox...

The objective of this paper is to outline the determinants of municipal land zoning in favor of agricultural and natural land conservation through a parsimonious allocation of land to urban development. We first rely on an abundant theoretical and empirical literature, especially on Solé-Ollé...

Agriculture provides many ecosystem services such as food, fiber, clean water, and sequestration of carbon. The efficiency of such ecosystem services depends on crop composition and farmer decisions. Current knowledge on landscape changes is focused on crop allocation process at farm scale and...

Les entreprises ont joué un rôle majeur dans le développement de la région grenobloise au cours du vingtième siècle dans des secteurs comme la ganterie, la chimie, les industries liées à l'énergie hydraulique et à l'électricité. Aujourd'hui d'autres secteurs moteurs apparaissent tels...

The specialization patterns of metropolitan areas are crucial in characterizing the effects of economic integration in Europe. This paper aims to provide and estimate an econometric model that explains both sectoral specialization and sectoral dissimilarity, measured with the GINI and the...

The invasion by the spreading species is one of the most serious threats to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Despite a number of empirical and theoretical studies, there is still no general model about why or when settlement becomes invasion. The purpose of this work is to test a model of...

We study long run carbon dioxide emissions-economic development relationships for advanced countries grouped in policy relevant groups: North America and Oceania, South Europe, North Europe. By relying on recent advances on Generalized Additive Mixed Models (GAMMs) and adopting interaction...

La Trame verte et bleue (TVB), nouveau dispositif d’action publique visant à enrayer la perte de biodiversité traduit un renouvellement des référentiels de justification des politiques de conservation et de leur stratégie territoriale. Il s’agit d’intégrer la planification...