Environmental conservation and the production of new territories: the example of French départements

Pierre Pech (), Sophie Dizière, Anne-Gabrielle Gillet, Mamder Julie and Tichit Marion
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Pierre Pech: LADYSS - Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Sophie Dizière: UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Anne-Gabrielle Gillet: UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Mamder Julie: UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Tichit Marion: UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

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Abstract: Very important initiatives have been taken and policies have been adopted in the European Union to protect areas of great importance for threatened species and habitats. Protected areas differ broadly in terms of category, natural conditions and administrative organisation, from international initiative such as Biosphere Reserves, European ones with Natura 2000 network until the institution of national and regional protected areas. In France, the administrative subdivisions known as "départements" were created with the French Revolution in the end of the eighteenth century; in 1985 an original and autonomous procedure to establish special protected areas, called "Sensitive Natural Spaces" (SNS) was devolved to them. The scope of this paper is to present an overview of these devolved powers which enable French départements to create protected areas and to levy a departmental tax on sensitive natural spaces (DTSNS). We statistically studied some parameters by multivariate methods in order to explain the choices of this policy by the départements. The huge variations in the way these powers are implemented prove the development of new environmental territories.

Date: 2010
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Published in GeoJournal, 2010, 75 (2), pp.149 - 161. ⟨10.1007/s10708-009-9259-8⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s10708-009-9259-8

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