Regionalization of policies is today a new reference for local public authorities, through contracts and definition by local actors of jointed development projects. In France, territorial projects in rural areas, are linked to many formalized devices. We study in this paper three territorial...

The aim of this study is to present some important aspects of the way inwhich participatory research may contribute to the management of territorialdevelopment, through the identification of problems and development opportunities in agiven territory. We will first identify some epistemological...