This article focuses on the decision making process by which Japanese food companies are implanting in China. It postulates that the decision making process is influenced by constraints and resources that are issued from multiple territorial scales, from global to local: at the global and...

Tourist services can only be used on-site, and location therefore becomes a servicespecific characteristic for consumers and a factor influencing their cost and quality for providers. These services are a fine illustration of territorial rent differential. This territorial rent differential can...

The paper analyzes the lessons and potential poverty impacts involved in the application of approaches for building socially inclusive, decentralized and spatially accented approaches to rural (and rural-urban) economic development in South Africa and other experiences making a preliminary...

This article treats the environmental dimension of the Greater Paris system. It shows how a territorial ecology approach permits the cogent investigation of governance principles and policy options for the Greater Paris region. First we present estimates of synthetic indicators such as the...

In a context of transformation of local public action, public policy actors have a need for new information leading them to observe differently in order to reveal the "invisible". The inadequacy of existing statistics and the necessity of having a precise understanding of territorial dynamics...