The associative or communal approach presupposes that the spontaneous organization of individuals and the issuing binding norms suffice to ensure adequate protection and a whole set of social goods and services. This article illustrates the difficulties that such a proposition may be confronted...

</titre> Sustainable development leads to a marginalization of its social dimension. This dimension has acknowledged a deep analytical renewal these recent years. The interactive dynamics of poverty and inequality are nowadays addressed together. The social dimension has been incorporated into the...

</titre> Within Fair Trade, labeled chains are often opposed to specialized chains. The first is for a number of years the subject of criticism. On the base of a set of ethical criteria, we argue that these criticisms are a bit steep. They forget the originality of labeled chains. Especially they are...

</titre> Fair trade is increasing in developing countries with in the same time some movements of local certification. We analyse this double movement. We underline the existence of three concomitant reasons : a reaction to the hegemony exerted by FLO on fair trade standards, the need to create new...

Cet article vise à étudier l'évolution de la gouvernance des filières de commerce équitable à l'aide du cadre d'analyse des global value chains. Nous remarquons tout d'abord que les exigences croissantes des acheteurs sur la qualité intrinsèque des produits ont mené à des formes de...

In recent years, several studies have attempted to combine the capabilities approach with sustainable development. However, critics have pointed out that although the capability approach takes the environment into account, it has its shortcomings for not being a complete ethical theory. Our...

The purpose of this paper is to address three major shortcomings of Sen's capability approach with regard to sustainability: (i) First, the weakness of the ecological dimension of the capability framework. This can be overcome by devising a place where it is possible to relate the intrinsic and...

Le cadre usuel de la réflexion sur la responsabilité de l'entreprise est désormais celui de l'approche par les parties-prenantes. Ce cadre semble pourtant assez mal approprié à la prise en compte de l'environnement tant celui-ci pose des problèmes spécifiques. L'objet de cet article est...