China uses more than 60 percent of coal in its energy mix. This heavy reliance has strong environmental consequences notably with SO2 and CO2 emissions for which China is the world first emitter. This already has tremendous implications on a local, regional and global scale. Therefore, there is...

With the strengthening of corporate social responsibility, the need for an evaluation of the environmental performance exists and appears more and more meaningful for the companies. This research paper presents an experiment implemented within the Total Company about impact on water of the...

Within the current context of the Grenelle Environment Round Table, French government advocates source reduction strategies for over-packaging. But, companies wonder about their impact on consumers. Thanks to video recorded observations and interviews with consumers, this paper aims at examining...

Environmental challenges, and the potential solutions to address them, have a direct effect on living standards, the organization of economies, major infrastructures, and modes of urbanization. Since the publication of path-breaking contributions on the governance of environmental resources in...

With the strengthening of corporate social responsibility, the need for an evaluation of the environmental performance exists and appears more and more meaningful for the companies. This research paper proposes an evaluation “process & tool” which has been experimentally implemented within...

This paper is an excerpt from the last chapter of Jean-Marie Chevalier’s last book «Les grandes batailles de l’énergie». The author explains what he calls «the equation of Johannesburg» named from the last Earth summit. The most important challenge of the XXIst century, and the most...

Within a firm, the measure of performance must be relevant at each level of management. For the financial field, it is “quite easy” to set objectives at each level. This possibility comes from the fact that financial indicators can be easily added from one level to another. Concerning the...

A field experiment was conducted to explore the effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) (550 ± 17 μmol mol−1) on nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions and nitrogen (N) dynamics in a winter-wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cropping system at the free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE)...