Les auteurs analyseront dans une premiere partie les differents facteurs de localisation des services aux entreprises, en insistant plus particulierement sur le role de la main-d'oeuvre dans ce processus. Puis, grace a une double enquete d'etablissements realisee dans les metropoles de Bordeaux...

Water's role in manufacturing technologies has received limited attention in econometric studies of natural resource use. A KLEM model of technology is extended to include three facets of water use: intake, recirculation and discharge,

We propose a simple model of a partially integrated industry which explicitely takes into account persistant production cost differences across upstream firms, such as one might observe in natural resource industries. The model allows us to highlight the respective roles of strategic...

Kremer and Morcom focus on how the price of ivory affects the incentive to poach elephants and how government policies can be developed to address this problem. Despite an ostensible emphasis on policy, however, the ‘state of the world’ that is assumed throughout the paper is so far...

After the 2000 ‘Water-War’, access to water in Bolivia has become a major social demand and thus a prime and contentious political issue. The event has revealed an overwhelming opposition to neo-liberal approaches to water management and has allowed the articulation of a new discourse that...

We analyze an overlapping generations model where individuals’ welfare depends on the stock of a free access environmental good E and on the consumption C of a private good. We assume that the production process of the private good depletes the natural resource but that specific investments...

By constructing a static model of a recyclable product market where the product can be manufactured by using both a recycled material and a harvested natural resource, we examine how different types of economic policy instruments affect resource harvesting activities of individual producers. In...

Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) have frequently been established in Africa to improve wildlife conservation and the welfare of local communities. However, their effectiveness so far has been hampered by conflicts and illegal harvesting activities. Within a...

Con el fin de justificar el proyecto de trasvases del Ebro que vertebraba las prioridades del PHN, el anterior Gobierno elaboró y publicó dos trabajos: el primero, titulado “Documento de Análisis Económicos” (MIMAM-2000) recogía un Análisis Coste-Beneficio de dichos trasvases, mientras...