Contenu du sommaire : Gouvernances et développement durable

Exploring the Ambivalent Concept of Governance in the Field of Sustainable Development This article states reasons for the emergence of the governance concept in the field of sustainable development. Then it aims at exploring different meanings, and use made of this concept in the current discourses. Finally we also show the possible ambiguousness of applying the governance concept in the field of sustainable development.

The Kyoto Protocol and global ecological governance: stakes and prospects for the post-2012 commitments This paper examines on what conditions the South countries may be associated to the collective efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and the North may accept more drastic commitments for subsequent periods (post-2012). What is at stake is both to broaden and to strengthen the quantified targets within the Kyoto Protocol. This implies that equitable commitments based on a progressive contraction-convergence of emissions may be defined.

Which governance for the application of precautionary principle? According to the principles of governance, the implementation of a strategy of precaution should be entrusted to the directly concerned and socially responsible non-state actors: companies and local collectivities. States however intervene to coordinate actions led in a decentralized way and to facilitate the application of the precautionary principle in international agreements.

Land-use Conflicts and Decentralized Tourism Governance in Namibian Rural Areas: Can the Tourism Commons be Privatized? Tourism product in Namibia is based on specific natural resources. In communal lands, those are charactarized as common-pool resources, whose ownership is disputed by private, public and local actors. Through contracts, rural communities transfer their commercial tourism rights to private operators. Those partnerships support rural development but remain unstable and conflictual. Indeed dependancy syndrome and weak devolved decision-making power are main challenges faced by communities in these contracts.

Territorial and sustainable development in rural areas, governance and non governmental organizations' intervention in Santa Catarina's State, Brazil Local non governmental organizations (NGOs) are becoming development promoters in rural areas. It is a recent phenomenon in Brazil. Are NGOs influents actors in the renewal of the conceptions and practices in the development field ? Two cases of NGOs that acts in Santa Catarina's State, in the South of Brazil, are analyzed. If in their official speech they aim to promote an alternative development, focused in sustainability and solidarity, the NGOs' interventions are marked by a corporative conception of development.

Public policies and localised agri-food system development in the irrigated rice production sector in Ivory Coast The globalisation of the economies of those last years threatened some national productive system and in particular the sector of the irrigated rice production of Ivory Coast of disappearance. In this paper, we examined the strategies of the actors of this sector using the notion of localised agri-food system. We showed that the rice market which is segmented is not satisfied by local production. So we suggested some public measures to be applied in order to reinforce the competitiveness of small agri-food enterprises in the irrigated rice productive sector.