1. GDRI‐caINTI
T. [TERRITORIES]
serge Ormaux
(ThéMA ‐ University of Franche‐Comté – CNRS)
Territories linking places and
communities in the transition
to sustainable development
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2. This axis will continue the
state of art concerning the
combination of economic,
social, environmental and
cultural objectives of
sustainable development on
three topics :
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3. 1‐ The concepts
2‐ The fundamental methods
3‐ The territorial development
systems
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4. 1­ The concepts of
‐ territory,
‐ terrorial intellligence,
‐ sustainable development,
‐ well being,
and linked concepts through
some disciplinary Aields. 4

5. Some direcJons of work :
Territory: typology of the approaches,
based on bibliography and interviews
(Europe, South America…)
Territorial intelligence : what is TI;
What is not TI; TI and similar
paradigms ; linked concepts ; towards
an ontology of TI ; penetration of TI in
scientiAic literature…
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6. Some direcJons of work
Well being:
‐ Can we speak of a territorial well being ?
[for exemple, in Britain (France) an
association deAined an ISBET
( « Indicateurs sociétaux de bien‐être
territorialisé »)]
‐How to connect this ques tion with the
concept of well being liberty (Amartya
Sen) ?
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7. Some direcJons of work
Sustainable development :
‐From 3 to 4 pilars of SD (+ the cultural
dimension)
‐The territorial dimension of SD
‐SD and territorial cohesion
‐SD and spatial discontinuities
…
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8. 2‐The scienJfic fundamental method of
territories analysis
‐The purpose is to compare and to connect some
methodologiacal paradigms, to question their
participatory dimension and to see how it is
possible to transcend these different approaches
into considering a meta‐method.
‐These methods are territorial observation ;
meso‐scale approach ; structural geography,
landscape analysis (from physionomy to
mediation) ; spatial modelisation, …
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9. 3‐Territorial development systems
Such as:
‐ clusters
‐ science and industrial parks
‐ development partnership
underlying current development in a bottom‐up
dynamic
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10. 3‐Territorial development systems
And I suggest to work also about
territorialised productions like
« terroir products », or « land
products », with protected indications
of origin
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11. Conclusion
We hope :
• ‐ it will strengthen the scientiAic
dimension ot territorial
intelligence ;
• ‐ it will give suggestions for a
structural reform for ecological and
social transition
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