Publications ordered by theme

Abbreviated lists arranged structured around broad themes

 

Ants and Biological Control

Barzman Marco, 2000. Weaver ants in orchards and groves. In Stoll G. (ed.), 2000. Natural Crop Protection in the Tropics. pp. 99-100. related work

Barzman Marco and Kent M. Daane, 2001. Host-handling behaviours in parasitoids of the black scale: A case for ant-mediated evolution. Journal of Animal Ecology, 70: 237-247.

Sinzogan A.A.C., P. Van Mele and J.-F. Vayssieres, 2008; Implications of on-farm research for local knowledge related to fruit flies and the weaver ant Oecophylla longinoda in mango production; International journal of Pest Management, 54 (3 (July-Sept.)), p. 241-246. link to abstract and pdf

Van Mele Paul, 2000. Evaluating farmers knowledge, perceptions and practices: a case study of pest management by fruit farmers in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Wageningen (NL): 229 p.

Van Mele Paul and Ho Van Chien, 2004. Farmers, Biodiversity and Plant Protection: developing a learning environment for sustainable tree cropping systems. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2(1): 67-76

Van Mele Paul & Nguyen Thi Thu Cuc, 2003. Ants as Friends: Improving your Tree Crops with Weaver Ants. CABI Bioscience. pp. 67. ISBN 958-97218-2-6. related work

Van Mele Paul and Nguyen Thi Thu Cuc, 2000. Evolution and status of Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabricius) as a pest control agent in citrus in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. International Journal of Pest Management, 46(4): 295-301

Van Mele Paul, Nguyen Thi Thu Cuc, & A. Van Huis. 2002. Direct and indirect influences of weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina husbandry on citrus farmers' pest perceptions and management practices. International Journal of Pest Management, 48 (3), 225-232. related work

Van Mele Paul, T.V. Hai, O. Thas and A. Van Huis, 2002. Influence of pesticide information sources on citrus farmers' knowledge, perception and practices in pest management, Mekong Delta, Vietnam. International Journal of Pest Management, 48 (2), 169-177. related work

Van Mele Paul, V. Mai, H.V. Chien and Nguyen Thi Thu Cuc (eds.), 2001. Weaver Ants: A Golden Opportunity. Proceedings of Citrus Farmer Workshop, February 2001, Tien Giang, Vietnam. CABI Bioscience, pp. 25. related work

Van Mele Paul, A. Salahuddin and N.P. Nagor 2005. Innovations in Rural Extension: Case Studies from Bangladesh, CABI Publishing, 320 p.

Van Mele Paul and V.T. Truyen, 2002. Observations and farmer experimentation with predatory ants. LEISA, 18(1): 28-29. related work

Van Mele Paul and A.K.M. Zakaria, 2002. The Innovation Tree: A new PRA tool to reveal the innovation adoption and diffusion process. PLA Notes 45, 49-53. London: IIED.

French Convention Theory

Articles relevant to French Convention Theory (see also the files attached below):

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Boltanki Luc and Thévenot Laurent, 1999 ; The sociology of critical capacity; European Journal of Social Theory, 2 (3), 359:377.

Boyer Robert and André Orléan, 1992; How do conventions evolve?; Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2, 165:177.

Orléan André, 1995; Bayesian interactions and collective dynamics of opinion: Herd behavior and mimetic contagion; Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 28 (2), 257-274.

Thévenot Laurent, 2001; Organised Complexity. Conventions of Coordination and the Composition of Economic Arrangements; European Journal of Social Theory, 4 (4), 405-425.

Thévenot Laurent, 2009; A View from Engagements; Postscript to the Special Issue: Governing Life by Standards; Social Studies of Science, Vol. 39, No. 5, p. 793-813.


BOOKS, CHAPTERS AND OTHERS - IN ENGLISH

Bibow Jörg, Paul Lewis and Jochen Runde, 2003; On convention: Keynes, Lewis and the French school; in Runde J. and S. Mizuhara (eds.), The Philosophy of Keynes' Economics. Probability, Uncertainty and Convention, Routledge: London, New York, 185-195.

Favereau Olivier, 2002; Conventions and régulation; in Boyer R. and Y. Saillard (eds.), Régulation theory: the state of the art, Routlege: London, 312:319.

Favereau Olivier and Emmanuel Lazega (eds.), 2003; Conventions and Structures in Economic Organization: Markets, Networks and Organizations; New Horizons in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics, Hodgson G. M., Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham (UK) - Northampton (MA, USA), 256 p.

Jagd Søren, 2004; Laurent Thévenot and the French Convention School. A Short Introduction; Economic Sociology. European Electronic Newsletter, 5 (3), 5 p.

Lesourne Jacques and André Orléan (eds.), 1998; Advances in Self-organization and Evolutionary Economics, The Brookings Institution, 424 p.

Morand Frédéric, 2006; Integrating concepts of institutions: a comparative introduction to Thévenot's conventions; IDARI working paper (submission in preparation to the Journal of Economic Methodology), Humboldt University of Berlin / Eco-innovation (Galway, Ireland) - RTD project QLRT-2002-02718 (IDARI), 40 p.

Orléan André, 2004; What is a collective belief?; in Bourgine P. and J.-P. Nadal (eds.), Cognitive Economics, Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 199-212.

Orléan André, 1998; The Ambivalent Role of Imitation in Decentralised Collective Learning; in Lazaric N. and E. Lorenz (eds.), Trust and Economic Learning, Edward Edgar Publishing: Northampton, Cheltenham, 124:140.

Runde Jochen and Sohei Mizuhara (eds.), 2003; The Philosophy of Keynes' Economics. Probability, Uncertainty and Convention, Routledge, 288 p.

Thévenot Laurent, 2005; Convention School; in Beckert J. and M. Zafirovski (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, Routledge: London. (see file attached below)

Thévenot Laurent, 2005; The Two Bodies of May 68: In Common, in Person; in Sica A. and S. Turner (eds.), The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties, Forthcoming, Chicago University Press: Chicago, 12 p.

Thévenot Laurent, 2002; Conventions of Co-ordination and the Framing of Uncertainty; in Fullbrook Edward (ed.), Intersubjectivity in Economics., London, Routledge, pp.181-197. (see file attached below)

Thévenot Laurent, 2001; Legitimate Modes of Coordination in the 'Economics of Conventions'; in Fullbrook E. (ed.), Intersubjectivity in Economics, Routledge: London.

Thévenot Laurent, 2001; Pragmatic regimes governing the engagement with the world; in Schatzki T., K. Knorr-Cetina and E. v. Savigny (eds.), The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, Routledge: London, 56-73.

Thévenot Laurent, Francois Eymard-Duvernay, Olivier Favereau, André Orléan and Robert Salais, 2005; Values, coordination and rationality: the economy of conventions; in Oleinik A. N. (ed.), The Institutional Economics of Russia's Transformation, Ashgate: Aldershot (UK), 21-44.

 

SOME KEY PUBLICATIONS IN FRENCH

Dupuy Jean-Pierre, Francois Eymard-Duvernay, Olivier Favereau, André Orléan, Robert Salais and Laurent Thévenot, 1989; L'économie des conventions; Revue économique, 40 (2), 141:406.

Dupuy Jean-Pierre and Pierre Livet (eds.), 1997; Les limites de la rationalité. Tome 1: Rationalité, éthique et cognition (Colloque de Cerisy), La Découverte (Recherches): Paris, 451 p.

Orléan André (ed.), 2004; Analyse économique des conventions, Presses Universitaires de France - Quadrige: Paris, 435 p.

Orléan André (ed.), 1994; Analyse économique des conventions, Presses Universitaires de France: Paris, 403 p.

Orléan André, 1991; Logique walrasienne et incertitude qualitative : des travaux d'Akerlof et stiglitz aux conventions de qualité; Economies et sociétés, Serie PE, 14, 137:160 (accessed January).

Postel Nicolas, 2003; Les règles dans la pensée économique contemporaine; CNRS Economie, CNRS Editions: Paris, 260 p.

Salais Robert and Laurent Thévenot (eds.), 1986; Le travail. Marchés, règles, conventions, INSEE-Economica: Paris, 370.

Below are the pdf versions of two key documents on the topic, both by Laurent Thévenot -

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Perennial forage

 

 


Visser Marjolein, 2001. Produire des semences autochtones pour réhabiliter des terres dégradées : le cas de Stipa lagascae R. & Sch. en Tunisie Pésaharienne [Producing native seeds for restoring degraded lands: the case of Stipa lagascae R. & Sch. in Presaharian Tunisia]; Doctorate thesis, Applied Biological Sciences: Agronomy, University of Ghent, Ghent (Belgium), 374 p. related work

Visser Marjolein and Frédéric Morand, 2000. Social clues to the reintroduction of native grazed perennials in Presaharian Tunisia: the recent pas revisited; Society for Ecological Restoration International Conference, Liverpool, UK. p. 67 related work

Visser Marjolein, Frédéric Morand & Hedi Mahdhi, 2002. Fauche de Stipa lagascae et réhabilitation des terres privées en Tunisie aride. Cahiers Agricultures, 11: 377-383. related work

Visser Marjolein, Frédéric Morand and Dirk Reheul, 2001. Haymaking of Stipa lagascae in Presaharian Tunisia: opportunities to restore private arid land; Ecological Restoration, 19 (1): 47-49. related work

Visser Marjolein, Noureddine Nasr & Mohamed Zaafouri, 1997. Quelle recherche en écologie (agro)pastorale face aux mutations agraires en Tunisie aride? Options Méditerranéennes, Série A, 32: 227-249. related work

Visser Marjolein, M. Neffati, M. Loumerem, A. M'Charek & T. Behaeghe, 1997. Sélection clonale de Stipa lagascae R & Sch.: une graminée pastorale prometteuse pour la réhabilitation des parcours degradés; Revue des Régions Arides, no. spécial, p. 396-310. related work

Visser Marjolein & Dirk Reheul, 2001. Restoring depleted Tunisian drylands with native species: where should we source the seeds? Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 48(6): 567-578. related work

Visser Marjolein & Dirk Reheul, 2002. Producing native seed of Stipa lagascae R. & Sch. in Presaharian Tunisia: high yields, high genetic variation or both? Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 49(6): 583-598. related work

Policy (including Food Policy)

 

Altieri Miguel and Marco Barzman (eds.), 1998. Towards defining a pro-poor Natural Resources Management Strategy in the CGIAR. Conclusions and recommendations from the CGIAR-NGOC Consultation on Natural Resources Management, Washington D.C.

Barzman Marco, 2004. contributing author in: Ison R.L., P. Steyaert, P.P. Roggero, B. Hubert and J. Jiggins (eds.), 2004. The SLIM (Social learning for the integrated management and sustainable use of water at catchment scale) Final Report; August (accessed at: http://slim.open.ac.uk), 89 p.

Barzman Marco and Luther Das, 2000. Ecologising rice-based systems in Bangladesh. LEISA, 16(4): 16-17.

Barzman Marco and Sylvie Desilles, 2002. Diversifying rice-based farming systems and Empowering Farmers in Bangladesh using the Farmer Field-school approach. (Chapter 16) in Uphoff N. (ed.), 2002. Agroecological Innovations: Increasing Food Production with Participatory Development. London: Earthscan, 306 p.

Morand Frédéric and Marco Barzman, 2006; European sustainable development policy (1972-2005): fostering a two-dimensional integration for more effective institutions (WP1);  IDARI Working Paper,  Eco Innovation / Humboldt University of Berlin - RTD project QLRT-2002-02718, 30 p., (www.eco-innovation.net/integrating-policy).

Morand Frédéric, 2006; Integrating concepts of institutions: a comparative introduction to Thévenot's conventions (WP2);  IDARI Working Paper,  (May),  Eco Innovation / Humboldt University of Berlin - RTD project QLRT-2002-02718; Galway (Ireland), 30 p., (http://eco-innovation.net/integrating-concepts).

Morand Frédéric, 2006; Measuring institutional integration in the (greening) European golf (WP3);  IDARI Working Paper,  Eco Innovation / Humboldt University of Berlin - RTD project QLRT-2002-02718; Galway, Ireland, 22 p., (www.eco-innovation.net/measuring-institutional).

Morand Frédéric and Marjolein Visser, 2006. Eco-innovation in golf: pest control or stress control? Institutional aspects of the control of Microdochium patch disease in Great Britain and Ireland (WP4). Working Paper, Eco Innovation / Humboldt University of Berlin - RTD project QLRT-2002-02718; Galway (Ireland), 21 p., (http://eco-innovation.net/institutions-and-golf-biostimulation).

Morand Frédéric, 2008; Developing eco-innovation: opportunities for education and policy integration;  News and commentary from the 5th ETAP Forum held in Budapest, 15 Oct. 2008,  Eco Innovation; Dilbeek (Belgium), 12 p., (http://eco-innovation.net/developing-eco-innovation).

Redclift Michael and Colin Sage, 1999. Resources, environmental degradation and inequality: The consequences of globalization for the South. In Hurrell A. and N. Woods (eds.), 1999. Inequality in World Politics. Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp.122-149

Redclift Michael and Colin Sage, 1998. Global Environmental Change and global inequality: North/South perspectives. International Sociology 13(4): 499-516

Redclift Michael and Colin Sage (eds.), 1994. Strategies for Sustainable Development: Local Agendas for the South. Chichester : John Wiley

Sage Colin, 2006. Trust in markets: Economies of regard and spaces of contestation in alternative food networks. In Cross J. and A. Morales (eds.), 2006. Street Markets: Commerce in a globalising world. New York : Routledge (forthcoming).

Sage Colin, 2006. La qualita nelle reti alternative di produzione alimentare: Convenzioni, normative e governance. In Cavazzani A., G. Gaudio and S.Sivini (eds.), 2006. Politiche, Governance e Innovazione per le aree rurali. Roma: Instituto Nazionale di Economia Agraria

Sage Colin, 2003. Social embeddedness and relations of regard: Alternative 'good food' networks in South West Ireland. Journal of Rural Studies 19(1): 47-60

Sage Colin 2002. Food security. In Page E. and m. Redclift (eds.), 2002. Human Security and the Environment: International Comparisons. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, pp. 128-153.

Sage Colin, 1996. The search for sustainable livelihoods in Indonesian transmigrant settlements. In Parnwell M. and R. Bryant (eds.), 1996. Environmental Change in South-East Asia: People, politics and sustainable development. London : Routledge, pp.97-122

Sage Colin and R. Sexton, 2005. The Food Culture of Cork. In Crowley J., R. Devoy, P. O'Flanagan and D. Linehan (eds.), 2005. The Atlas of Cork. Cork : Cork University Press.

 

 

Turlough agriculture

Turloughs are temporarily flooded meadows that can be grazed at certain times. Their complex ecology and hydrology make them valuable yet fragile assets for cattle farming.

 

 

Visser Marjolein, 2006. Turloughs: Producing food, nature, or both? Inshore Ireland, April 2006, p. 23

Visser Marjolein, James Moran, Eugenie Regan, Mike Gormally and Micheline Sheehy Skeffington, 2006. The Irish agri-environment: How users and non-users perceive turlough management under the converging EU agendas of Natura 2000 and CAP. Land Use Policy, in press. related work

Visser Marjolein, Eugenie Regan, James Moran, Mike Gormally, Micheline Sheehy Skeffington, 2006. The rise and fall of turlough typologies: a call for a continuum concept. Wetlands, in press. related work