Theoretical work has demonstrated that sustainable development requires non-declining per capita wealth, where wealth is defined to include produced, natural, human and social capital. Several studies have attempted to measure total national wealth or changes in wealth, but have been seriously...

The political economy of resource rich countries is surveyed. The empirical evidence suggests that countries with a large share of primary exports in GNP have bad growth records and high inequality, especially if the quality of institutions and the rule of law are bad. The economic argument that...

</titre> <alinea/> This paper deals with the processes by which Sustainable Development (as a prescriptive set of global norms) is subject of different forms of "translation" (negociation, selective appropriation, reformulation) and institutional construction in the context of rural policies in Brazil and...

</titre> <alinea/> Our contribution attempts to address links, from a critical point of view, between recent theoretical approaches to civil wars in developing countries and the resource curse hypothesis. In the first part we discuss the recent theoretical approaches to civil conflicts in developing countries...

</titre> <alinea/> The experimentation of sustainable development by Madagascar fit into the global environmental and development frameworks. It is characterized by an original and ambitious system of environmental planning. However, it is confronted with several difficulties : an extrovert sustainable...

</titre> <alinea/> The aim of this article is to underline that the willingness to conciliate social and resources sustainability is integrated in the strategies of coastal populations, in the Republic of Guinea. While analysing the powers strategies and the local land management, it appears that the communities...

</titre> <alinea/> Over the last decades common pool resource management has been developed increasingly. This paper focuses on the development of common pool forest management in French speaking subsaharian african countries, in a way of sustainability. It analyses the main stakes facing by forest management....

The concept of ecotourism is widely misunderstood and it is often used as a marketing instrument in order to promote tourism businesses related to nature. It is well-known that from all sub-sectors of the tourism industry the ecotourism has experienced the fastest growth in the recent years, but...

This paper presents the general and specific causes which led to the actual financial and economic crisis, the principal consequences of this crisis like some other theoretical considerations regarding the cyclical normal evolution of the economies and the major disequilibrium instauration...

The Productivity Commission’s inquiry report into ‘Waste Management’ was tabled by Government in December 2006. The Australian Government asked the Commission to identify policies that would enable Australia to address market failures and externalities associated with the generation and...