This paper aims to present the results of the Erasmus + RUR'UP project that developed educational tools for scientists, public managers, practitioners, and agricultural advisors living and working in peripheral rural areas. Based on the assessment of the educational needs and gaps for the sustainable development of the EU peripheral rural areas of ...
PurposeThis paper questions the robustness of social life cycle analysis (LCA), based on four social LCA case studies. To improve robustness of social LCA, it is a necessity to fight against its weaknesses. The paper addresses three questions: (1) what are its weaknesses? (2) How can they be combated? There are solutions suggested by the Convention...
This book focuses on innovation in the agri-food system and the new paradigm drawn by bioeconomic approaches and principles. It draws on contributions presented during the 29th EURAGRI annual conference held in Luxemburg (September 2015) as well as on other workshops organised as part of EURAGRI. EURAGRI is an informal gathering of EU research and ...
Railway traffic is often perturbed by unexpected events causing delays, which may greatly propagate. Nowadays, dispatchers deal with delays trying to limit this propagation with scarce decision support tools. RECIFE-MILP is an optimization algorithm which may be used to support dispatchers' decisions. In this paper, we illustrate the analysis perfo...
The transition to green economies has been mediated by concrete cases and experiments in a variety of different industrial and social sectors. What is lacking, is research that would synthesize key findings and “lessons learned” across a variety of cases. In this study, we explore ten cases of green economy of different sectors and approaches from ...
La certification de la qualité des produits alimentaires par des signes officiels de qualité représente un enjeu majeur de développement des filières alimentaires en Europe et dans les pays du Sud. La demande de certification est généralement initiée par les producteurs dans un objectif soit offensif de valorisation sur le marché ou défensif pour s...