The Chair of Environmental and Mineral Economics (CEME) is an initiative launched by the Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans 

Funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and the Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières (BRGM). 

This chair promotes research and teaching in the field of environmental and resource economics, within an international, globalization-oriented framework. It has three main pillars: