The issue of food has evolved significantly in recent years throughout Europe, under the pressure of environmental and climate constraints as well as a set of factors related to food dependence and changes in consumption patterns. Short circuit practices, embedded in localized agrifood systems,...

This article assumes the following hypothesis : the problematic of the quality based on origin of the agro-food products is a priori independent of environmental criteria, but the production practices under signs of quality, often anchored in the traditional know-how, are attentive to the...

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...

This article proposes a theoretical reading of the competitiveness poles. After bringing back to mind their main features, the author makes the hypothesis of a producing city that has become a major actor of globalization and that participates in the assumed depletion of the fordist model. The...

This article attempts to evaluate two contradictory positions vis-?-vis the notion of territory and the territorialization as a process. In a first time, geographers have taken the concept for a long time and questioned the validity of terms and their relevance today. As if the land, used too,...

This text focuses on the notion of governance applied to the territorial dynamics. It implies in a first part to try to define what we call a territorial dynamic and the notion itself of territory. In a few words, a territory results of a construction and coordination process by actors generally...

This paper stress on the way the urban territories could produce specific resources through the actor?s coordination. The paper shows that, before becoming an asset, the resources have to be revealed and appropriated by these actors. It follows from this process that urban territories are able...

The paper demonstrates how the principle of local development may interact in low developed countries and more particularly in Western Africa. A first part describes both the elusion of the state, especially in low developed countries, and the spatial dispersal of social and economic forces....