In the standard problem of mechanism design under adverse selection, it is well known that the payment from the Principal will be an increasing function of the agent’s unknown productivity or skill. Development economists are generally of the opinion that adverse selection is of little...

[fre] La forêt reste la destination de loisirs privilégiée des Français. Face à la croissance de la demande, la loi d'orientation sur la forêt de 200 1 se tourne vers les forêts privées. Pour assurer la compatibilité de l'ouverture récréative avec les autres fonctions de la forêt,...

Free-access recreation on private forest property is gaining in importance with the increasing social demand for forest-based recreation. The amended French Forest Law of 2001 provides for schemes with a voluntary contract, in terms of which private forest owners are paid to maintain an...

This paper is part of an investigation to evaluate the benefits of landscape policies. Such policies are, within a specific area (here the Monts d?Arrée in Brittany), favouring some landscape attributes. We test out a procedure based on a double device. The first one relies on the choice...

Multifunctionality of Agriculture (MFA) is a concept that supports the recognition of complex interdependencies between different resources, production processes and outputs of agricultural land use. Political decision making within a sustainable development frame requires extensive information...

This introductory paper aims to address the features of environmental sustainability in agriculture. Recent developments of the concept, which are discussed here, emphasise its multi-faceted nature and lead to various definitions as well as to different implications for policy measures in...