Like any other human activity, without containing intentional elements, tourism, being a consumer of space and tourist resources, participates implicitly in the degradation and the pollution of the environment of the tourist potential, either through the direct pressure of the tourists on the...

The world economy is now facing a number of new disturbing questions. In this context, the political, social and economic equilibrium of the Mediterranean area is a key issue which concerns the entire world. In the search for equilibrium, the Mediterranean energy industry, which is characterized...

This paper studies the dynamics of land-use in the Brazilian Amazon using a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model. A fixed effect panel data specification is used to control for the heterogeneity in the data. Meanwhile, spatial autocorrelation is also diagnosed by a statistical...

This paper examines the role of other-regarding behavior as a mechanism for the establishment and maintenance of cooperation in resource use under variable social and environmental conditions. By coupling resource stock dynamics with social dynamics concerning compliance to a social norm...

Les liens entre pétrole et relations internationales forment la question de géographie historique par excellence. En effet, progressivement, les mouvements internationaux d'offre et de demande en pétrole brut sont devenus nettement plus importants que le total des quantités produites et...

This paper is an excerpt from the last chapter of Jean-Marie Chevalier’s last book «Les grandes batailles de l’énergie». The author explains what he calls «the equation of Johannesburg» named from the last Earth summit. The most important challenge of the XXIst century, and the most...