Les marchés de droits pour la gestion de l'environnement. Introduction générale

The market for purchasing environmental rights constitutes a management device that resorts to creating markets in which user-rights are exchanged without property transfer of land, which in fact constitutes the material support of such practices. The aim is hereby to assess the consequences of the international expansion of such markets on developing countries, the advantages they may draw from it or the risks they may henceforth run. As a global collective constraint, the environment constitutes a privileged domain for creating rights-markets, which already constitutes a major stake of North-South relations.