Charles Séguin

University of Quebec in Montreal | UQAM · Department of Economics

Conservation agriculture (CA) is promoted by various organisations and scholars as alternative to conventional agriculture to meet growing food demand with minimal damage on environment; but its factors of adoption have not been well identified. The study uses the recent composite index of adoption of CA developed by Takam Fongang et al. (2023) to...

Direct seeding mulch-based cropping system (DMC) is often touted for providing diverse ecosystem services, but its implementation may impose private costs that often limit its adoption by farmers. This study uses a contingent valuation method and a double hurdle model to estimate Quebec farmers’ willingness to accept (WTA) compensation for adopting...

Conservation agriculture (CA) has appeared in America since 1970 as an alternative practice to conventional tillage to limit soil degradation. Despite its expansion around the world, socioeconomic analyses of its adoption, as well as its impact on agricultural yields, still suffer from imperfect identification of CA adopters. The present study ther...

We compare flexible low-carbon regulations in the transportation sector and their interaction and sequencing with greenhouse gas emissions trading systems in California and Quebec. As momentum builds for greater climate action, it is necessary to better understand how carbon markets and other low-carbon transportation policies influence one another...

We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral environmental tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural resource. Resource rents are owned by regions and are...

Reducing adverse environmental consequences of modern industrial agriculture requires an ecological transition of agricultural practices. An important determinant of adoption of new agricultural practices by producers is the perceived profitability of these practices. The profitability of ecological agricultural practices tends to rely on improved...

We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral environmental tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural resource. Resource rents are owned by regions and are...

Musicians, singers and bands can use their popularity to promote various causes and products, either through endorsements or more individual initiatives. Environmental activism is becoming more widespread as humans are trying to tackle and mitigate climate change. In this paper, we ask how best a band can compensate for the carbon emissions generat...

To what extent can we predict if a project’s main stakeholders will deem it socially acceptable? In a context where social acceptability has come to be considered as a prerequisite for the realization of any major project, this question has become paramount for projects’ developers and their investors. In this perspective, the Social Risk Index for...

L'acceptabilité sociale des projets miniers constitue un enjeu majeur pour l'industrie extractive. La littérature qui traite de la notion d'acceptabilité sociale en lien avec le monde minier se décline autour du concept de permis social d'opérer, c'est-à-dire comme un moyen d'éviter les perturbations susceptibles de compromettre les activités extra...

Social acceptability of mining projects is a major issue for the extractive industry. The literature considering social acceptability in connection with the mining world discusses a concept called the social licence to operate, as a way to avoid disturbance that could compromise extractive activities. This reductive vision is a transposition in the...

Cheap energy has been key to the modern economy. The use of electricity and the internal combustion engine have been crucial for current patterns of civilization, and reduction in availability or increases in the cost of energy have serious consequences for current activities of society. Concerns about climate change, depletion of fossil fuel, and...

In this paper, I formally introduce the nonlinear feedbacks in the green-house gases (GHG) dynamics, which generates "endogenous" thresholds in the coupled climate-economy system. This is in contrast to the traditional approach in economics which focuses on linear feedbacks or uses "exoge-nous" thresholds, i.e. not derived from the underlying clima...