La construction de territoires micro-régionaux et leur signification économique: le cas des "pays" en France = The construction of micro-regional territories and their economic relevance: the case of the pays in France

Francis Aubert (francis.aubert@inrae.fr), Denis Lépicier (denis.lepicier@inrae.fr), Philippe Perrier-Cornet and Yannick Sencébé (yannick.sencebe@agrosupdijon.fr)
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Francis Aubert: CESAER - Centre d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux - ENESAD - Etablissement National d'Enseignement Supérieur Agronomique de Dijon - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Denis Lépicier: CESAER - Centre d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux - ENESAD - Etablissement National d'Enseignement Supérieur Agronomique de Dijon - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Philippe Perrier-Cornet: UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier
Yannick Sencébé: CESAER - Centre d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux - ENESAD - Etablissement National d'Enseignement Supérieur Agronomique de Dijon - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

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Abstract: The paper reports on multidisciplinary research into the setting up of local development areas in France known as pays. Under the impetus of the 1999 blueprint legislation on territorial development, the pays policy is designed to encourage local economic actors to put together a development project. These structures have two distinctive characteristics in the context of French institutions: they are devised for the micro-regional scale and are to be established on a voluntary basis through the free association of local councils. This means that those pays that have been formed exhibit a wide variety of sizes and structures. This work attempts firstly to provide a snapshot of this diversity by proposing a typology of all the pays in France. It then extends to a sociological and economic analysis of the corresponding territories. The sociological analysis focuses on the role of local councillors in constructing pays and on the roles of other categories of actors. The economic analysis raises the issue of just how relevant the areas thus delimited are for local and regional development.

Keywords: Aménagement du territoire; Développement communautaire; Développement régional (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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Published in Canadian Journal of Regional Science / Revue canadienne des sciences régionales, 2006, Public policy and rural space / Politique publique et espace rural, 29 (1), pp.319-325

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