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Land use and soils disposal: From competition to territorial governance (examples from land use conflicts in the greater Paris region)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2013

André Torre  and
Ségolène Darly
André Torre*
Affiliation:
UMR SAD-APT, INRA—Agro Paristech, Paris—Saclay University.
Ségolène Darly
Affiliation:
UMR LADYSS, University Paris 8, and UMR SAD-APT, INRA.
*
*Corresponding author: torre@agroparistech.fr
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Abstract

Rural, natural and peri-urban areas seem nowadays to become the object of conflicts and tensions because of their multi-functional nature. If these conflicts issue from opposing views about the use of land, they are also determined by the spatial parameters that characterize the pieces of land affected by the projects of land-use transformation, and by the antagonistic relationship between two or several units of action (farmers and local planners, for example). Therefore, there is a need for a new management of rural (and peri-urban) areas, and this is the role of territorial governance, which is the engine of local development, and the tool for better local compromises, involving periods of opposition and streams of negotiation. Territorial governance has to take into account not only negotiations but conflict relations as well and to include both interaction schemes into its framework. Our study assesses the role played by conflicts in land use within a peri-urban context, based on studies on the Greater Paris region, and a case study on the use of agricultural soils on the urban fringe.

Keywords

land useconflictsgovernanceurbanizationagricultural soils
Type
Themed Content: Integrated Crop–Livestock Systems
Information
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems , Volume 29 , Issue 3: Special Section: Themed Content: Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems , September 2014 , pp. 206 - 217
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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