Europe ; France ; Inter-community cooperation ; Local government ; Region ; Sustainable development ; Territorial planning
Le changement d'échelle conduisant les communes vers l'intercommunalité et les États vers le supranational atteint le niveau régional qui se recompose dans une interrégionalité encore indécise. En France, l'exigence de développement durable conduit
Arab World ; Cognitive space ; Decentralization ; Espace vécu ; Mauritania ; Nomadism ; Region ; Semiotics of space ; Spatial organization ; Spatial representation ; State control ; Territory
, l'Etat décentralise et leur atrribue une valeur nouvelle, par les investissements qui leur sont affectés. Les nomades, doués d'un fort potentiel d'innovations, recomposent leurs territoires, redonnent du sens à leur espace et peuvent jouer un rôle dans la
Cultural studies ; Identity ; Island ; Oceania ; Pacific Region ; Territory
dans leur foisonnante diversité, les territoires se recomposent et les identités se reconstruisent. Appréhender ces mutations en mettant l'accent sur leur dimension spatiale constitue l'objet du présent ouvrage. Les textes qui le composent sont issus
Africa ; Countryside ; Identity ; Institution ; Power ; Social geography ; Subsaharan Africa ; Territorial structure ; Village ; West Africa
Campo ; Estructura territorial ; Geografía social ; Identidad ; Institución ; Poder ; Pueblo ; África ; África del Oeste ; África subsahariana
Dans cette partie de l'Afrique, le sujet vit de plus en plus son identité comme une construction complexe, avec des démarches aléatoires d'une conquête personnelle. Les pouvoirs territoriaux se recomposent sur les bases de l'accès à l'espace et aux
Béthune ; Centrality ; Coalfield ; Decision making process ; Douai ; France ; Lens ; Nord-Pas-de-Calais ; Polarization ; Redevelopment ; Spatial organization ; Territorial structure ; Territory
En réponse à la problématique sur l'état et le devenir de l'ex-Pays Minier centre-ouest du Nord-P.-d.-C., comment ces territoires fortement marqués par l'activité minière se décomposent et se recomposent-ils, tant à l'échelle interne qu'externe
Election ; Electoral behaviour ; France ; Outer conurbation area ; Political geography ; Social structure ; Territoriality
A l'aide d'une méthodologie recomposant les résultats communaux de l'élection présidentielle de 2002 selon la distance aux principales aires urbaines françaises, l'article insiste sur l'importance du gradient urbain comme élément explicatif du vote
Accessibility ; European Union ; France ; Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ; Regional integration ; Territory ; Transport ; Transport network ; Transport system
Un système de transport efficace doit permettre l'articulation de toutes les échelles de circulation. Les réseaux rapides et l'organisation logistique des flux recomposent les territoires autour d'axes multimodaux et de plates-formes d'échanges
Territorial cohesion - Between expectations, disparities and contradictions
Europe ; Governance ; Regional disparities ; Territory ; Theory
The spatial development process and Territorial Cohesion Concept, quality of the territorial structure, quality of the processes in the territorial systems, territorial subjects of the societal development process, Territorial Cohesion and EU
The state as container: territoriality in the modern world-system
Behaviour ; Democracy ; Historical geography ; Political geography ; Power ; State ; Territorial strategy ; Territoriality
Across the whole of our modern world, territory is directly linked to sovereignty to mould politics into a fundamentally state-centric social process: the state'scapture of politics is premissed upon territoriality. The domination of political
practice by territoriality is a consequence of the territorial link between sovereign territory and national homeland.
Concepts, Strategies and Guiding Principles for Europe´s Territorial Development
Cohésion sociale ; Concept ; Développement territorial ; Economie ; Europe ; Gouvernance ; Territoire ; Union Européenne
Concept ; Economy ; Europe ; European Union ; Governance ; Social cohesion ; Territorial Development ; Territory
“Territorial cohesion”, in addition to economic and social cohesion, is the new goal of the European Union. The paper deals with a short review of the genesis of a European spatial development policy, the knowledge-based identification
of territorial challenges, the new concepts of territorial governance and the dialogue with corporations as a part of the stake holder process. - (IfL)
Territorial dimensions of Hungarian ethnic identity
Ethnic community ; Ethnic group ; Geopolitics ; Hungary ; National territory ; Political geography ; Territorial identity
A review of Hungary's foreign policy draws out the special character of Hungarian political and cultural identity to explain why Hungarians living in neighboring states will continue to be a source of territorial tension. - (DWG)
Conflict ; National territory ; Political geography ; Sovereignty ; State
During the past forty years, territorial claims against neighboring states have almost always been justified as attempts to recover land that had been « wrongfully » taken away. Examples of territorial conflicts between Ecuador and Peru, India
and Pakistan, and Togo and Ghana reveal the influences of the discourse of territorial conflict justification.
Status and perspectives of territorial cohesion with respect to European Spatial Development Policy (ESDP)
Europe ; Governance ; Space ; Territory
Main sources of information, the European treaties and the European constitution as a primary basis for Territorial Cohesion (TC), terminology applied, expanding Territorial Cohesion in the constitutional debates, main facets of the TC-Issue
, governance aspects of Territorial Cohesion, achieving TC through the results of scientific research, normative and governance perspectives of TC, going back to the roots of TC ? - (IfL)
The A. examines the claim of the decreased relevance of existing structures of multipurpose territorial government. He points to configurations of governance that usually lead to situations of diffused accountability and limit the field
of democratic accountability. A change in the existing structures through which territorial self-government and administration are organized is not necessary in order to cope with the pressures and uncertainties of globalization.
Unlike countries, cities and regions compete on the basis of an absolute advantage principle and not a comparative advantage principle. The competitiveness of territories emerges as a central issue, in order to secure employment stability, benefits
for external integration, continuing growth of local well-being and wealth. The arguments put forward by P. Krugman, defining the concept of competitiveness, are wrong and misleading, and cannot be accepted in a territorial regional and urban context.