Objectif To analyze the effectiveness of new participative processes for regional management (town and country planning) in order to support sustainable development of rural areas.OBJECTIVES: To analyze the effectiveness of new participative processes for regional management (town and country planning) in order to support sustainable development of rural areas. DESCRIPTION: The evolution of environmental problems and policies requires institutional adaptations and innovations in the structures and management methods of local and regional bodies. Wider countryside management arises from the need to ensure that conservation is no longer restricted to the protected areas and from the multiple protection zoning (water, landscape, grounds, etc) superposed in rural areas. The project will compare several cases of new forms of integrating policies and zoning in the management of rural areas where negotiations between the opposing interests is privileged. The aim is to build management settings that are sustainable because they are founded on the cooperation between the actors; they often combine top-down and bottom-up approaches. The project uses the concepts and methods derived from the sociology of technical innovation and aims to analyse and evaluate: i) the representation processes of the different environmental interests (translation); ii) the integration processes of the scientific concepts and methodologies and the administrative procedures; iii) the processes of negotiation between the actors; iv) the effectiveness and the efficiency of these new procedures; v) their durability, i.e. the possibility of achieving stability in management procedures. This comparative approach will make it possible to simultaneously assess national and local experiences and to formulate conclusions and proposals with regard to the institutional developments required to support sustainable development of rural areas. Champ scientifique social sciencessociologysocial sciencespolitical sciencespublic administrationbureaucracy Programme(s) FP4-ENV 2C - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998 Thème(s) 04 - Human dimensions of environmental change Appel à propositions Data not available Régime de financement CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinateur Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise - ASBL Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse 185,Avenue de Longwy 6700 Arlon Belgique Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Participants (2) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Swindon Road, Francis Close Hall Campus GL50 4AZ CHELTENHAM Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique France Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Domaine Saint-Paul 84914 Avignon Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée