We study menu auction games in which several principals influence the choice of a privately-informed agent by simultaneously offering action-contingent payments; the agent is free to accept any subset of the offers. Building on tools from non-smooth optimal control with type-dependent participation constraints, we provide necessary conditions for a...
Nonpoint source pollution from agriculture represents a major threat to the quality of water in the European Union (EU) context. As part of the implementation process of the EU Water Framework Directive in France, the cooperation between water suppliers and agricultural stakeholders has been recently promoted for limiting diffuse agricultural pollu...
This paper is part of a political science research project on the anti-speciesist movement in France and Quebec. This movement, which rejects the domination of animals by humans, has legitimacy issues and struggles to find its place in the "space of social movements" (Mathieu, 2007). Indeed, it is not recognized as a fully legitimate movement, whic...
Karnataka, renowned for its mulberry silk, has long been a cornerstone of India's sericulture industry. The state's commitment to sericulture, driven by a legacy of over two centuries, is evident in its extensive mulberry cultivation and significant employment generation, particularly for women and youth. Despite its prominence, Karnataka's sericul...
Given the multiple challenges that agriculture faces, collective action is a potential pathway towards more sustainable agriculture. This article aims to contribute to the literature by assessing the extent to which collective action can meet the objective of both healthy and profitable production in the French West Indies. To do so, we call on the...
La dégradation de la ressource en eau et des écosystèmes aquatiques constituent des sujets de préoccupation majeurs aux échelles nationale, européenne et globale. Les pollutions diffuses d’origine agricole demeurent plus particulièrement un problème important dans les contextes français et européen malgré la mise en œuvre de politiques de lutte con...
Published in Topoi
How can a collective pay attention virtuously? Imagine a group of scientists. It matters what topics they pay attention to, that is, which topics they draw to the foreground and take to be relevant, and which they leave in the background. It also matters which aspects of an investigated phenomenon they foreground, and which aspects they leave unnot...
Infrastructure and urban development projects continue to experience problems and tensions when it comes to external stakeholders, even though the importance of collaboration and dialogue between the external stakeholders and project developers is being increasingly stressed. There seems to be a lack of supporting policy and management strategies f...
Published in Heliyon
This article aims to present the challenges and prospects of transboundary river water conservation and watershed protection in the Upper Blue Nile basin. The River Nile Basin embraces eleven countries shaping their diverse environments and playing a vital role in the livelihoods of its inhabitants. Within this context sharing and managing the Rive...
Published in Ambio
Sustainable water resource management is a core interest for all societies. As water systems are often common resources, the management of water systems requires coordinated action among actors along the water. For flowing water, a complication for coordination is upstream–downstream relations where what happens upstream affects downstream, but not...
