The success of a sustainable is conditioned by a real implication of the stakeholders to the decision-making processes. The challenge is to explain the participation under the angle of the participative governance. Using an empiric example, the PNRC plan, this article intends to think over the...

The relations between public services and local public services are analysed. The local communities are now obliged to consider the requirements of sustainable development, with new constraints and new possibilities for the local public services. The objectives and means of action of the local...

Currently, the concept of sustainable development is creating various controversies. One of them<np pagenum="280"/> is dividing the sustainable development and the attractiveness of territories. This paper makes an effort to show that the two concepts could be convergent or totally divergent. In this case, we...

Chemical activities are confronted with the necessity of their transformation to match the new social and environmental requirements. This paper aims to show that Employment patterns are key elements of such a transformation, by their material characteristics as well by their institutional ones....

Most scientific approaches aim at elucidating a unique order to obtain a scientific image of their object. This strategy revealed efficient in most cases but led researchers to ignore phenomena resulting from the composition of several orders, each time this composition is not an accessory...

In this context of global economic crisis, coupled with an ecological one, attractiveness of the region is more topical than ever, but at the same time, governments must deal with citizen and scientist pressures about well-being of individuals and the environment. Because of this, it seems...

Industrial Ecology (IE) aims at minimizing energy and material flows within industrial processes. Initially, IE was thought of as an analogy between industrial and natural systems. In the latter, energy and material flows are cycled so that the system tends to become self1-sufficient. IE...

Cooperative and mutual companies belong to a social economy; they can (probably better than firms) take up new social issues, among them sustainable development. The principles adopted by cooperative and mutual companies lead to a better respect of social equity. Moreover, these organisations...

Using a narrative approach, we describe the emergence of a « Doubly Green Chemistry » more as the product of a collective action in building a new sector, than an innovation breakthrough brought by individual actors. This action is initiated by the agricultural and agroindustrial firms that...

The choice of the rate at which one should discount the long-term benefits of mitigating climate change is highly controversial. Both the level and the slope of the term structure of discount rates have been discussed intensively in relation to the determination of the social cost of carbon....