Cet article passe en revue différentes méthodes pour mesurer la biodiversité et propose d’expliciter leurs fondements axiomatiques. Il offre ensuite un aperçu des concepts développés pour sa protection et il s’achève sur une discussion de quelques spécificités du problème, comme la...

Forests are ubiquitous in the Democratic Republic of Congo; they touch the cultural and economic life of most of the population and have enormous global environmental significance. After years of conflicts and mismanagement, reconstruction is key to improving living conditions and consolidating...

We consider the case of two exogeneous and deterministic shocks in groudwater resource management: [...].

In this paper, we focus on resource conservation in a model of decentralized management of groundwater and rainwater. We show that a conservation policy may have opposite effects on the level of the resource, depending on the outcome of the decentralized management. More precisely, we consider...

We analyse the way French farmers manage production risks, especially the risk of drought. To this end, we assess the role of irrigation in farmers’ risk management. Based on the European Farm Accountancy Data Network data, we jointly estimate farmers' attitudes to risk and their production...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the manifestations and interactions at work between the ecological, environmental and social dimensions of sustainable development and the development of short food supply chains (SFSCs) in French fruit production....

Using data for 2002-2005 on a representative survey of French farms (FADN-RICA), we investigate the different factors that lead farmers to insure against crop risk. Our analysis takes into account a mix of both standard individual, financial and agricultural criteria. Cross-sectional and...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse capital structure and its dynamics for farms in Poland, a leading European Union producer. The theoretical framework is based on the trade-off and pecking order theories of capital structure. We use data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN), which...