The article offers an empirically-based analysis of conflicts over public utility infrastructures in the Paris region. It sheds some light on public decision-making process and on the role conflicts play in the process of land availability. Area tends to be lessened due to economic development...

The article provides an analysis of land-use conflicts extract from the rulings of French Administrative Courts from 1981 to 2005. It focuses on Paris?s suburb, where the urbanisation process and the diversity of land-use require a deeper comprehension of the problem. Our results show that the...

This thesis studies the local opposition phenomenon in carrying out public facility project. It defends the idea that the growing conflict dimension in infrastructure project is not necessarily a dysfunction to be voided in the decision making process. Composed from 4 articles, the thesis...

La région Ile-de-France connaît une pression foncière importante due aux besoins d’espaces urbanisables et à la nécessité d’infrastructures à destination de la métropole parisienne. Or, les marges de manœuvre pour la poursuite de l’artificialisation des sols et à la création...

A quelques exceptions près, la théorie économique ne s’est pas emparée de la question de la conflictualité. Une hypothèse peut être formulée quant aux motifs de cette omission qui caractérise structurellement l’analyse économique : à la différence d’autres concepts centraux...

This article aims to present the research conducted in recent years by a multidisciplinary team on the questions of land-use conflict, and to reveal the methodology of survey and data collection, as well as the structure of the resulting database. We first define the scope of our study by...

The land use conflicts occasioned by the creation or the extension of public transport networks or structures raise the question of the equality of the citizens vis-à-vis these works of public interest. In this paper, we try to understand if and how the two main fields of the public decision,...

The article focuses on the contributions of John R. Commons and Max Weber to the understanding of legal foundations of the economy. We argue that Weber and Commons theorization of law provides a fruitful starting point for an economic sociology of law.