As a new regulation comes into effect, a program of inspection must be set up to guarantee that the requirements are completed by the subjected facilities. Then the facilities must make the necessary corrective actions within reasonable times. Various questions arise when we evoke the subject of...

In many domains, opinion plays a very significant role which will not stop growing. It is true more than ever in the environmental and health domains, but also in industrial risks. Is it necessary to worry about it? Won't today's mindset become tomorrow's regulation? We show the characteristics...

This paper is the introduction to a forthcoming anthology (published by Ashgate) of economic contributions to the subject. It ties the articles together, starting with a primer on corporate strategy, then considering corporate environmental strategy, and concluding on implementation issues. Cet...

This article is concerned with the management of major hazards stemming from technology and entailing potentially dreadful consequences. It proposes a brief survey of the0501n difficulties and policy issues arising both in public and private decision making when dealing with major technological...

This report is an introduction to the nanotechnology uprising fields. In the first section, different definitions of the nanotechnology term are given. Then, the various applications known to date and expected in the near future will be gathered according to the three most important fields of...

This paper proposes a general way to craft public policy when there is no consensual account of the situation of interest. The design builds on a dual extension of the traditional theory of economic policy. It does not require a representative policymaker's utility function (as in the literature...

The first part of this report presents the main debates concerning a proposal for establishing an Integrated Product Policy (IPP) in Europe. It shows the importance of applying a systemic approach in order to minimize the negative environmental impacts of products throughout their life cycle and...

Sedimentation in river beds, which results in social disamenities, is caused by soil erosion in farmed ecosystems surrounding those rivers. This paper introduces a "spatial"" corrective tax on soil erosion. We find that the optimal tax rule will depart from the classical Pigouvian method...