Rethinking Rural Development at the Village Level “The Villages of the Future” in France (Bourgogne Franche-Comté Region)

Marielle Berriet-Solliec, Dany Lapostolle, Denis Lépicier, Gaëtan Mangin and Abdelhak El Mostain
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Marielle Berriet-Solliec: UMR 1041 CESAER, INRAE, Institut Agro Dijon, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, CEDEX 1, 21079 Dijon, France
Dany Lapostolle: UMR THEMA, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
Denis Lépicier: UMR 1041 CESAER, INRAE, Institut Agro Dijon, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, CEDEX 1, 21079 Dijon, France
Gaëtan Mangin: LIR3S UMR 7366, Université de Bourgogne France-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
Abdelhak El Mostain: LIR3S UMR 7366, Université de Bourgogne France-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France

World, 2022, vol. 3, issue 1, 1-17

Abstract: This article relates a transdisciplinary (participatory and interdisciplinary) research experiment conducted in the Territorial Living Lab for Ecological Transition (Burgundy Franche-Comté Region) that has led to constituting transdisciplinary epistemic communities. This research focuses on nine villages in this French region that have been selected to experiment with new designs for sustainable territorial development. It is part of an experimental scheme called “Villages of the Future” led by the Regional Council. These villages are less-than-2000-inhabitant municipalities, located in rural areas that are not under urban influence. The starting point is that development models based mainly on consumerism and the accumulation of wealth have shown their limits in a context of social and ecological transition. The implementation of these disciplinary epistemic communities leads to three main results: the passage from the villages’ storytelling to concrete projects, the enlargement of the local sphere of action and finally the impacts in terms of training this community’s stakeholders.

Keywords: rural development; participation; transdisciplinarity; storytelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G15 G17 G18 L21 L22 L25 L26 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 R51 R52 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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