Augusto, Laurent Zeller, Bernd Midwood, Andrew J. Swanston, Christopher Dambrine, Etienne Schneider, André Bosc, Alexandre
Published in
Annals of Forest Science
• IntroductionAtmospheric deposition is an important input of major nutrients into forest ecosystems. The long-term goal of this work was to apply stable isotope methodology to assess atmospheric nutrient deposition in forest systems.• Materials and methodsA labelling experiment of foliage with stable isotopes of primary and secondary macro nutrien...
Namatende Sakwa, Lydia
Landau (1991: 217) stipulates that 'usage refers to any or all uses of language'. It is the study of good, correct, or standard uses of language as distinguished from bad, incorrect, and nonstandard uses of language. Usage may also include the study of any limitations on the method of use, whether geographic, social or temporal. Basically it alerts...
Briassoulis, Demetres Dejean, Cyril Picuno, Pietro
Published in
Journal of Polymers and the Environment
The critical review of norms and standards and corresponding tests to determine the compostability of biodegradable plastics, possibly applicable also to biodegradable agricultural plastics, shows that many norms concerning testing and labelling of compostable plastics have been established at the international level. Some of them are about plastic...
Bordier, Célia
Il est avéré désormais que l'abeille domestique Apis mellifera est utile pour la biodiversité. Cependant, par l'utilisation de pesticides et l'augmentation de productions intensives, la santé des ruches se détériore. Ainsi la comparaison de plusieurs cohortes par le biais de caractéristiques comportementales, peut permettre de mieux comprendre le f...
Bakker, Mark Ronald Andreasson, Frida Dannoura, Masako Zeller, Bernhard NGAO, Jérome Epron, Daniel
Dannoura, Masako Bosc, Alexandre Trichet, Pierre Chipeaux, Christophe Sartore, Michel Bakker, Mark Ronald Epron, Daniel Loustau, Denis
Paratte, Rejane
Mahenc, Philippe
The role of labeling is to solve the adverse selection problem caused by unsubstantiated claims from firms. The problem however is likely to remain unsolved if the labeling agency is not trustworthy.The agency can be suspected to divert the fees charged for labeling from their primary purpose of collecting information in order to raise excessive re...
Sans, Pierre de Fontguyon, Guy Giraud, Georges
In the last decade, the French beef industry has been through two major health scares related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy. This paper describes and discusses changes in beef supply in France from the consumer's perspective. The authors review the initiatives implemented in each crisis and show that the immediate effects (slump in consumptio...
Fournier, Stéphane
De l’analyse théorique croisée des dynamiques des processus locaux d’innovation et des processus de certification, il ressort que le couplage Système agroalimentaire localisé/Indication géographique (Syal/IG) peut permettre la pérennisation des dynamiques d’action collective. Les IG peuvent infléchir les relations de concurrence entre acteurs locau...
