</titre> The modes of governance of drinking water services, recommended at the global level, are based on partnerships between national or local public entities, private operators and users' associations. They rely on weak consideration, by development agencies, of representations and endogenous...

</titre> Fair Trade actors tend to strengthen their environmental criteria. The aim of this paper is to confront this tendency to the beliefs and expectations of consumers. To do this we use the results of a survey among French coffee consumers. We show that some well established criteria are...

</titre> Development strategies are presently deployed with greater uncertainty, especially because of the climate change constraint. This climate constraint is increasing scrutinized and taken seriously into account by the South countries as shown by the implementation of the provisions of the Kyoto...

</titre> Using World Bank data base 'Global Preferential Trade Agreements', with a sample of 268 agreements, the paper analyses environmental clauses that these agreements may contain, with a special view on those implying parties from both advanced and emerging economies. A qualitative approach helps...

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