Indisciplines

Assessing Sustainability
F. Vivien , J. Lepart , P. Marty
Edition 2013

Defined in the Bruntland Report in the 1980s, sustainable development is a notion that remains largely controversial: helping to assess it is the main objective of this book. What are the specific features of sustainable development? What relationship does it enjoy with growth? What is its timescale - long-term development or countdown? Sustainability is studied here across various sectors - urban, landscape, biodiversity, industry and agro-materials.

Geoagronomy, landscape and regional projects
Following in the footsteps of Jean-Pierre Deffontaines
S. Lardon
Edition 2012

There are many facets to the work of Jean-Pierre Deffontaines.Anyone who has joined him in circuitous paths, explored innovative routes and crossed many fields knows the potential for creation that it conceals. The authors of this book are following in his footsteps in his three themes: geoagronomy, landscape and regional projects. The DVD includes icongraphic and multimedia productions of Jean-Pierre Deffontaines and other authors.

New Relationships With Nature in the Countryside
F. Papy, N. Mathieu, C. Férault
Edition 2012

Using an approach that breaks with the innumerable rural studies and the most recent preemptive work, the authors have compiled ten diverse, but significant case studies to identify individual and collective, association and institutional behaviours that, by moving away from the commonly-held equivalence between countryside, landscape and Nature itself, are indicative of changes in the way we think and practice, in other words how we live in harmony with Nature in the countryside; they represent genuine signs of the emergence of new "eco-aware" relationships with Nature that are still in their infancy.

Pipes and Men
G. Bouleau, L. Guérin-Schneider
Edition 2011

The aim of this book is to go beyond conventional wisdom on water services and their financing, the price of water, the polluter-payer principle, domestic user-farmer, urban-rural, private-public oppositions, etc.

All the necessary compromises and practical difficulties in managing networks are discussed.

Des politiques territoriales durables ?
Lessons from Amazonia
X. de Sartre, V. Berdoulay
Edition 2011

A stellar case is Amazonia, which the authors use to analyse the complex relationships between territory, sustainable development and modernity. They highlight the conditions for adopting sustainable development by the authorities and populations.

L'agriculture comparee
H. Cochet
Edition 2011

The author outlines here the advantage of comparative analysis in the agricultural development process. This discipline initiated by René Dumont incorporates social and economic reality into the thought processes for agricultural evolution.

Raconter le paysage de la recherche

C. Mougenot
Edition 2011 A wide community of field researchers is assembled through this journey into the inner workings of research, away from the paths of assessments and encoded results, revealing both the reflective and the sensitive sides of the business.

La ville durable
Y. Guermond, N. Mathieu
Edition 2011

Will urban policies be influenced by sustainable development? And will sustainable development then bring about scientific innovation? Researchers and scientists in different fields attempt to define the notion of a "sustainable city".

Sentir Paris
Well-being and Concrete Dimension of Places
L. Grésillon
Edition 2010

Through five Parisian locations (RER B platform at Châtelet les Halles, Huchette district, rue Lagrange, Peupliers district and Place Pinel), the author questions the existing link between the spaces and our feeling of well-being.

Le feu, savoirs et pratiques en cevennes
R. Dumez
Edition 2010

The book attempts to describe and understand the practice of fire by the Cévenol breeders. It studies the relationship between breeders and other local players (fire brigade, managers) around one practice - pastoral fire.