Sylvie Faucheux

INSEEC U

Purpose – This paper aims to identify and to characterize the current evolution of “sustainable mobility” solutions. After considering this trend as an expression of eco-innovation, the authors look at the impacts of the emerging business models for the introduction of these eco-innovations, on the wider “eco-system” of mobility. Design/methodolog...

Cet article traite des conséquences économiques du changement climatique qui servent de base à la conférence sur le climat de Paris (COP 21). Après un rappel du cadre, de l’historique et des enjeux du processus international de décisions sur le climat, les coûts de son changement sont exposés. Il s’agit à la fois des coûts des impacts et des coûts...

This article is in support of the development of an ecological economic framework. It discusses, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the increasing use of green IT and their applications (IT for green). IT and sustainable development have had a concomitant rise and reach. The future world emerging from their respective interpretations enables, i...

This paper briefly describes the relation between growth and environment in the history of economic theory (from physiocrats to neo-classical economists) and situates this relation as a theme in the development of the environmental economics literature. It then compares two paradigms of the economics of the environment (environmental economics broa...

This chapter addresses a double set of issues: (1) research misconduct of persons and organisations directly engaged in the practice of scientific research and (2) responsible research, meaning activities of discovery and innovation respectful of wider societal values. These two topics are clearly intertwined; but they are not the same. Drawing on...

Abstract (in English) - This paper deals with the social costs of research misconduct and is based on findings from the European DEFORM Project (2017). Responsibility in scientific research is a complex amalgam, requiring demarcations along two major axes. Who are the actors (from researchers within the science sector, to external governance agenci...

Le développement durable se veut un projet de société affichant de multiples solidarités à construire et à entretenir : une nouvelle vision patrimoniale de richesses écologiques et économiques liant générations présentes et futures. Cette contribution, à partir des spécificités de la transition vers l'économie circulaire, insiste sur les opportunit...

Le développement durable est un projet de multiples solidarités à construire et à entretenir, ce qui implique d’allier la création d’emplois et de revenus avec la préservation des capitaux économique, humain, social et environnemental comme complémentaires. De nombreux questionnements surgissent à propos de l’équité d’accès intergénérationnelle aux...

La croissance verte relève d’un développement véritablement durable dans ses dimensions économiques, sociétales et écologiques. Dans cette perspective, nous abordons la question du lien entre lutte contre le changement climatique et compétitivité économique, notamment pour le Maroc, puis les conditions requises pour que cette croissance verte s’ins...

Admitting the undetermined character of future societies means, immediately, affirming the “space” of opportunities of possible futures to be constructed. Affronting uncertainty means admitting vulnerability in the sense of hopes that may not be sustained — dashed by other, incompatible futures coming into being. Futures, as opportunities, can be c...

Indicateurs de développement durable pour les territoires

Territorial Ecology and Indicators for Sustainable Development of the Metropolis of Paris This article treats the environmental dimension of the Greater Paris system. It shows how a territorial ecology approach permits the cogent investigation of governance principles and policy options for the Greater Paris region. First we present estimates of sy...

Cet article s'adresse à la caractérisation des défis de l’innovation technologique, des choix énergétiques et de la gouvernance pour un développement durable. Appréhendant la production de tels déchets comme le « revers » de la grandeur énergétique et industrielle — et, plus particulièrement, le défi d’une veille sociétale sur les déchets radioacti...

Los autores revisan acuciosamente el concepto "desarrollo sostenible", mismo que encuentra aceptación debido a que ubica al crecimiento económico y a la preservación del ambiente como complementarios. Analizando los problemas ambientales desde la perspectiva neoclásica de la Teoría del Capital, Faucheux y O'Connor caracterizan los "límites ambienta...

This paper underlines the part that eco-innovations can play with regards to competitiveness, in particular in the economic space of Europe. The first part identifies main international tendencies in emergence with the characters of eco-innovations,which is linked to levers increasing their performance. The second part offers a prospective vision o...

In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth...

Social responsibility in the construction of indicators : the European steel industry experience. This paper presents methodological aspects and the main empirical results of a research study whose purpose was to define stakes and methods and propose appropriate indicators for defining and developing corporate social responsibility strategies for a...

This paper presents methodological aspects and the main empirical results of a research study whose purpose was to define stakes, opportunities and methods and propose appropriate indicators for developing corporate social responsibility strategies for aluminium industry companies in Europe. Experimental empirical work for the testing of procedures...

This paper presents methodological aspects and the main empirical results of a research study whose purpose was to define stakes and methods and propose appropriate indicators for defining and developing corporate social responsibility strategies for aluminium industry companies in Europe. Experimental empirical work for the testing of procedures f...

This paper discusses the stakes, opportunities and methods appropriate for developing a strategy of corporate social responsibility within the aluminium industry companies in Europe. It draws on institutional and documentary analysis, as well as on results from empirical work testing participatory procedures for development of corporate social resp...

L’analyse économique offre un puissant principe heuristique pour organiser toute question d’arbitrage entre exploitations alternatives de ressources économiques et environnementales. Il s’agit de l’analyse, d’une part, en termes des activités faisables (définition de « l’espace des possibilités ») et, d’autre part, en termes des valeurs et des choi...

Abstract This paper presents the methodological,aspects and the main,empirical results of a research study whose purpose was to define stakes, opportunities and methods and propose appropriate indicators for developing,corporate social responsibility strategies for aluminium,industry companies,in Europe. Experimental,empirical,work,for the testing...

S'il est admis que les nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication (NTIC) induisent un changement structurel de l'économie, ce nouveau moteur de la croissance peut-il se développer sans détérioration environnementale ? Les auteurs examinent ici dans quelle mesure les NTIC sont favorables à l'environnement. Économie de la connaiss...

This paper assesses the "weak" and the "strong" perspectives on sustainable development as a basis for the development of macro-economic sustainability indicators. A structural perspective on sustainable development is presented which allows classification of two broad families of 'environmentally-adjusted GNP'. The first type of adjustment centres...

The purpose of this research study has been to define the stakes, opportunities, methods and indicators appropriate for developing a strategy of corporate social responsibility within the aluminium industry companies in Europe. The study includes conceptual as well as empirical aspects, leading to proposals and recommendations for action at site, c...

Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs (OSTC), Bruxelles, 47 p.

This paper presents a reflection on the introduction of methods and tools of "participative foresight" for scientific and technology policy as well as environmental policy fields. Future studies have recently made a comeback under the label of foresight. Future technology studies no longer claim to forecast the future, but are presented as a strate...

This paper assesses the "weak" and the "strong" perspectives on sustainable development as a basis for the development of macro-economic sustainability indicators. A structural perspective on sustainable development is presented which allows classification of two broad families of 'environmentally-adjusted GNP'. The first type of adjustment centres...

Meeting fundamental human needs while preserving Earth's life support systems will require an accelerated transition toward sustainability. A new field of sustainability science is emerging that seeks to understand the fundamental character of interactions between nature and society and to encourage those interactions along more sustainable traject...

This article tries to bring out the perspectives offered by “weak” and “strong” perspectives on requirements for sustainable development. In essence, the divergences revolve around different concepts of natural capital and appropriate rules for management of natural capital in the pursuit of long-run sustainability.

After a 15-year period of regression, global oil refining capacity has begun to increase again since the end of the 1990s. This global change conceals considerable variance among the oil-refining countries of the world, since there are notable differences between local markets. While this growth is mainly to be found in the Asia-Pacific region, Ame...

This article focuses on the question of the resources of societies for the pursuit of a sustainable development. It offers a brief characterization of the challenge of sustainable development, as it has emerged from the environmental concerns of the 1960s and 1970s. It then outlines several distinctive ways in which resources management for sustai...

The Future studies have made a remarkable comeback under the label of foresight. Future technology studies no longer claim to predict the future, but are seen as a strategic tool for improving strategic interaction between key actors and for anticipatory policy making, particularly in the field of environment. They can be defined as a “process by w...

A la lumière d'enseignements issus de plusieurs domaines (Seveso, CFCs et couche d'ozone, pluies acides, vache folle, déchets radioactifs, organismes génétiquement modifiés), nous montrons comment la demande sociale et la détection de signaux précurseurs, ou "faibles", constituent une donnée fondamentale à intégrer dans le processus de décision con...

Abstract in English for NSS article in French "Politique environnementale et politique technologique : vers une prospective concertative". Future studies have made a remarkable comeback under the label of foresight. Future technology studies no longer claim to predict the future, but are seen as a strategic tool for improving strategic interactio...

The future studies have made a remarkable comeback under the label of foresight (Martin and Irvine, 1989). The aera where these future studies have gained a new ground are foresight processes at the intersection of environmental policy and technology policy to initiate technological innovations that contribute to the fulfilment of environmental obj...

with ecological globalization, environmental degradation has become a phenomenon capable of accentuating not only the sources of spatial and temporal conflicts, but also inter-and intragenerational inequities. In this context, it seems important, first of all, to explain the ways in which the taking into account of inter-generational equity in our...

Ce papier, intitulé "LE CAPITAL NATUREL ET LA MODELISATION ECONOMIQUE DU DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE: UN TERRAIN CONTROVERSE", expose de manière synthétique des démarches de modélisation économique qui correspondent à, respectivement, la vision de soutenabilité "faible" et celle "forte". Il s'agit d'un "état de l'art" de la littérature sur ce sujet des a...

A la lumière d'enseignements issus de plusieurs domaines (Seveso, CFCs et couche d'ozone, pluies acides, vache folle, déchets radioactifs, organismes génétiquement modifiés), nous montrons comment la demande sociale et la détection de signaux précurseurs, ou "faibles", constituent une donnée fondamentale à intégrer dans le processus de décision con...

An evolutionary economics perspective between technological innovation and public policy is applied to analyse the relationships between technological change, sustainable development and industrial competitiveness. This leads us to emphasise the fundamental role that firm's strategies vis-à-vis the endogenisation of technological change can play fo...

This paper contains a synthesis report of four research/policy interface workshops organised by the European Commission. The workshops were designed to provide direct and timely support for the development of the European Commission's approach to the Kyoto Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Dec...

Selection of papers revised from the inaugural ESEE Conference held at the C3ED UVSQ, May 1996.

Report on the Workshop held at Brussels on the 27 February 1998 for the European Commission (Research Support for Kyoto and Beyond. Policy/Research Interface Workshop Series, EC DG-XII. Later published by the EC.

The book contains 17 chapters, written by analysts coming from many continents, which portray late 1990s state-of-the-art in ecological economics thinking on sustainable development. The selection of methodological contributions, illustrated by empirical observations, highlights how a new generation of economists is confronting new problems of irre...

[fre] Avec l'émergence de problèmes globaux d'environnement dans les années 1980, de nouvelles pratiques visent à réconcilier l'activité économique et la préservation de la qualité environnementale. Les firmes jouent un rôle fondamental vis-à-vis d'une endogénéisation du changement technologique dans le cadre de stratégies « win-win ». Nous nous in...

All human activity brings about environmental changes, but the expansion of industrial economic activity has brought the scale of actual and potential harmful impacts to unprecedented levels and intensity. Three broad dimensions of environmental damage may be identified. The first is the threat posed to human life, health and continuing economic ac...