L'imbrication des spheres professionnelles et domestiques dans le travail des femmes des exploitations agricoles familiales, et la complexite temporelle qui en resulte, posent probleme pour aborder la question de l'emploi en agriculture. L'approche ergonomique, dont l'objet est l'etude...

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) aims at estimating a monetary value for environmental or public health degradation. In a regulatory context, it should be seen as a complementary tool to risk assessment to aid public decision-making. CBA should therefore be particularly relevant in the governance of...

This paper examines the implications of an environmental policy for growth performances. We develop a model where growth is driven by human capital accumulation. Firms invest in research to develop new technologies to reduce their pollution emissions and education is treated as product which not...

Saltwater intrusion in coastal aquifers is one of the main causes of groundwater quality degradation. These intrusions are often due to excessive withdrawals in sensitive parts of coastal aquifers. The scope of this paper is to identify specific problems set by optimal management of such a...

Risk management has become a central issue in sanitary crises. Agro food firms have devised organizational responses to sanitary risks, usually implying better traceability. European Regulation 178/2002 established mandatory traceability. This paper provides a critical appraisal of the European...

This study examines the effect of road and railway noise on property prices. It uses the hedonic regression technique on a Swedish data set that contains information about both road and railway noise for each property, and finds that road noise has a larger negative impact on the property prices...

Ce numéro spécial traite principalement de l'origine des revenus dans les exploitations agricoles et plus, spécifiquement, de la pluriactivité. Il aborde la place de la femme en agriculture, la diversification des sources des revenus des ménages agricoles et la mutation des modèles de...

The research of a market power based on a strategy of raising rivals' costs can settle out of vertical integration strategy or suppliers control process. We show that some business companies (farmers, agro-food processing firms) related within an agro-food local productive system try to control...

This paper investigates the hypothesis that local politics has an impact on local taxation in the French public sector by using a cross-sectional dataset on departments in 1999. Political variables are included in a tax-setting equation to provide empirical evidence whether local governments in...