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The Use of Transferable Permits in Transport Policy
Raux, Charles - HAL - 2004
This paper considers potential use of domestic transferable, or tradable, permit systems for the purposes of travel management, especially reducing environmental nuisances. The main arguments for and against the use of permits are analyzed. Secondly two case studies of existing permit systems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790756
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I.C.T. and Environment : Bad Assumptions and Recent Hypotheses
Rodhain, Florence; Fallery, Bernard - HAL - 2011
The aim of this communication is to present new focuses for research in the field of Environment and Information … ICT on the environment: paper, transportation, consumption, waste... The aim of the second part is to discuss the rather … positive role played by ICT with regard to knowledge of the environment: simulation, traceability, information... Research on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025750
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BASIC effect on global climate governance. Power changes and regime shifts
Berthaud, Pierre; Voituriez, Tancrède - HAL - 2013
In this paper we address the issue of the indeterminacy of climate change negotiations and examine the role played by the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) in this indeterminacy. Mobilising the analytical tools of international political economy (IPE), we show that changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820964
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Addressing the climate change sustainable development nexus: the role of multi-stakeholder partnerships
Pinkse, Jonatan; Kolk, Ans - HAL - 2012
While calls are being made to deal with the linkages between climate change and sustainable development to arrive at an integrated policy, concrete steps in this direction have been very limited so far. One of the possible instruments through which both issues may be approached simultaneously is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635203
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Paisaje Del Desarrollo. La ecología de las tecnologías andinas
Alexander, Herrera; Alì, Maurizio - HAL - 2009
The abandonment of indigenous and traditional ways of relating to the landscape and making use of the environment are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891259
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Business School-Industry Cooperation: Lessons from Case Studies
Chanaron, Jean-Jacques; Birchall, David - HAL - 2006
There is evidence to suggest that firms wish to work with universities to gain access to new technologies, to knowledge of future technologies and their possible impact and to thechnical problem-solving capability. There is much less evidence to support the proposition that firms work with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549108
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Client, employer and employee: Mapping a complex triangulation
Havard, Christelle; Rorive, Brigitte; Sobczak, André - HAL - 2009
Many studies in the fields of Law, Sociology and Management point out the transformation of subordination in the employment relation. This transformation of subordination is often explained by the triangulation of the traditionally bilateral employment relation between employer and employees,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010663550
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Agricultural primary commodity export and environmental degradation: what consequences for population's health?
Drabo, Alassane - HAL - 2011
In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels … examining the consequences of agricultural primary commodity export on population's health via physical environment degradation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643223
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The Worst-Case Scenario and Discounting the Very Long Term
Fall, El Hadji - HAL - 2006
We propose an ethical viewpoint based on the possibility of the realization of the worst-case scenario in order to reduce future generations risks in terms of discounting. Applied to the question of conservation of a renewable resource, we show that an economy, where the social planner takes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750368
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Growth, Environment and Uncertain Future Preferences
Kama, Alain Ayong Le; Schubert, Katheline - HAL - 2004
addressing here is: should uncertainty about future preferences lead to a more conservative attitude towards environment … environment than ours, but this result relies heavily on the assumption of a separability between consumption and environmental … (impatience, intertemporal flexibility, natural capacities of regeneration of the environment, relative preference for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750447