Update Sciences & technologies
The Sciences & Technologies Update collection publishes works in French or English, taking stock of recent progress in various scientific and technological fields. It is geared towards scientists in the fields concerned.
It follows on from the following collections: Science update (Inra).
Social Utility of Spatial Analysis
N. Dubus, M. Masson-Vincent, D. Bley
Edition 2013
This book outlines how the concept of geogovernance makes the spatial issues in managing their territory visible and comprehensible to its citizens. Geogovernance is defined by numeric tools used in geography (spatial analysis, modelling, GIS, public Web). These share information between residents, users, development professionals, experts and elected representatives in order to build up jointly the decisions to be made for the territory.
Y. Luginbühl, D. Terrasson
Edition 2013
The work addresses the interactions between landscapes and sustainable development measures in a few French regions. The landscape is studied as a whole at the crossroads of numerous disciplines: social sciences (geography, economics, sociology, development and town planning), living sciences (biology and ecology) and political science (participation, governance modes).
J. Bessière
Edition 2012
French rural areas are acquiring new roles - lighthearted, recreational, residential and also environmental and landscape - as they continue with their transformation.They are developing as a response to the assertion of new social concerns plus a diversity of key players and a wide range of goods and services.
The book is based on a deep-seated analysis of three rural areas in South-West France that all have strong heritage and food-processing potential.The author covers the promotion of food heritage and considers local food productions as resources for the future of regions.
The political ecology approach
D. Gautier, T. Benjaminsen
Edition 2012
Political ecology, a well-known approach in English-speaking countries, is a method of studying environmental issues and managing natural resources.Based on the study of powers or dominant relationships between players in these fields, it focuses especially on analysing the views and narratives that are the foundation for dominant political debates.This book attempts to broadcast this approach to a French-speaking academic audience.
A recreation service
J. Dehez
Edition 2012
The forest is not just a stock of wood or a biodiversity reserve.It is also a leisure area and, as such, is well-frequented. However, although the first two concepts are echoed genuinely within the world of forestry, the idea of opening the forest up to the public is lagging behind in France.
Resistance and Adaptation to the New Issues of water Sharing in the Mediterranean Region
C. Aspe
Edition 2012
"Natural things simply have the status granted to them by the societies."
Showing an interest in the future of agricultural water implies both an understanding of the transformations affecting the economic and social vocation of this water in our times as well as the irrigation networks formed by all engineered structures and equipment required to make the water resource available to the farmer.
P. Alphandéry, M. Djama, A. Fortier, È. Fouilleux
Edition 2012
In the current context of neoliberal globalisation and the questions raised over its negative effects, the aim of this book is to show through miscellaneous case studies that the standardisation systems are not only new forms of regulation, institutions and social practices, but that in reality they refer to eminently political issues and to the building of a specific balance of power between players.
A Participatory Approach to Support Sustainable Development
M. Étienne
Edition 2011 The aim of this book is to familiarise the reader with the companion modelling approach, by presenting the scientific posture that is its foundation, its methods and tools and the special place for models.
W. Oueslati
Edition 2011
The landscape is a political, cultural and economic construction of relations maintained between human societies and space. The economic approach sheds light on certain mechanisms relating to the changes in and organisation of the landscape.
A New Vision of Territories
P. Allard, J. Ferrier, S. Pérez, C. Lampin-Maillet
Edition 2010
Interfaces are, at the forefront, the seat of crises, tensions and even ruptures between elements. Knowing more about how they operate is essential to adapt to events, to anticipate rather than suffer them.
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