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Integrated Territorial Management

Integrated Territorial Management

In the context of globalization, the local territories and their management are not survivors from the past nor the local applications of a thinking coming from elsewhere. They are in the contrary the foundation stone of tomorrow's governance where cohesions and coherences within society and between society and its environment can be re-created. To achieve this, deep changes are necessary in the way of conceiving and managing territories. This international working group of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World is dedicated to those changes. It is introduced by the international work led by allies in September 1997 at Jonquière in Canada. The Jonquière declaration proposes three axes to structure the working group:

- Come up with alternative forms of development on a local level
- Develop the governance of territories
- Re-establish links between the local and the global
This working group is progressively structured in regional poles and brings together a variety of concrete experiences illustrating another way of thinking and managing the territory.

Workgroup data
Newsletter N°6	e-Forum Territories Summaries
Proposal Paper	Documents
Experience Reports	Participants and Interested Persons

:: Articles ::

Development
:: André Levésque :: August 2009 ::

Contribution from Mr André Levesque, President of the CERS (sociological survey and research center) A magic word that separates the world in two, that classifies countries, regions, and cities in comparison with one another ... We need to make a distinction between the development: of Facilities, which are things, of Regional or Urban Planning, which is in space, and of Growth. Development is in the MINDS of men, in their WILL, in their COURAGE. Documents FR73 ko, 6 (...)

Sustainable Development and Local Governance in the Countries of the South: A Challenge for the Millennium
:: Joseph Fumtim :: August 2009 ::

Sustainable Development and Local Governance in the Countries of the South: A Challenge for the Millennium On November 10, 1997, the Federal Republic of Nigeria made headlines and fed discussions in the world's intellectual and diplomatic spheres. A distinguished person had just left history to enter into the international legend of ecological movements. His name is Ken Saro Wiwa, chief of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and he was executed with his companions (...)

What is Development?
:: Odile CASTEL :: August 2009 ::

Contribution from Odile CASTEL for the Integrated Territorial Management workgroup. What is development? This is a very broad question, so I will limit my presentation to three points: economic and social development, sustainable development, grassroots development. Documents FR21 ko, 4 pages

Territory: between the high, the low, the short, the long, the fast, the slow, the internal and the external; the ideal level for essential conciliations.
:: Martine Théveniaut :: Alain Laurent :: February 2007 ::

Concept paper written for the WSSE Dakar, Senegal meeting (Nov 19-21, 2005). The results of 20 years of action-oriented discussions highlight "the major importance of managing territories in the 21st century, and the need to decompartmentalize networks by encouraging them to unite around shared objectives and working tools". They raise a question that is central to preparing the future: how can we raise the profile of the various approaches and people and link them together in order to (...)

Territories and Sustainable Development, Adaptation or Change of Paradigm ? Consequences for the Local Institutions
:: Pierre Calame :: February 2007 ::

This article develops the following thesis : territories will be essential for tomorrow's governance in the sense that it will answer this two essential necessities : 1) combining policies and actors in an integrated approach ; 2) combining scales of governance from local to global. This text is a summary of a presentation given at the conference on territorial interviews in Strasbourg directed to local authorities. Sustainable development is not something that can be reflected at the end (...)

The Future of the Big Territorial Entities :: February 2007 ::

Reflection seminar of the general secretaries; Strasbourg 29-30/09/98 This article is the synthesis of a seminar gathering general secretaries of cities held in Strasbourg in autumn 1998. At a time when decentralisation in France emphasises the responsibilities of the territorial collectives, it is interesting to see how the administrative officials of collectivities question themselves about their role, their references and the crisis of the local representative democracy. Documents (...)

Territorial Integrated Management and Local Development: Some Approaches
:: Paul Maquet Makedonski :: February 2007 ::

The author exposes the different academic approach to the question of space (geopolitics, neo-classic school, theory of the externality, structuralism) and he demonstrates its lack of relevance for the problem in the Andes. He stresses that the research carried on integrated territorial management in the Andes can open new perspectives. It is important to reconsider the local space as an appropriate scale for management, this could allow to face the actual problems of degradation of (...)

Formations, Territories, and Governance: The Challenges of Networks and of an International Experience Bank :: February 2007 ::

This text presents the difficulties met by civil servants in developing experience-sharing networks among local public services. As a general rule, the civil servants of local public services feel isolated. Most of them dream of developing networks and sharing experiences. This simple and inexpensive idea has rarely been implemented because in fact it runs into hidden obstacles: it questions the current top-down organization schemes and the social status attached to technical expertise, (...)

Micro-Macro Group: Report and Experience Reports
:: Morgane Iserte :: Teresa Cerveau :: February 2007 ::

Within the framework of the collective program Economic initiatives for a solidarity society and fight against exclusion at the FPH, a working group on the link between the micro and macro scale has been meeting since 1995. After having studied several cases, a report has been written to define this issue and to open the "MicMac" club. This file attempts to find out how micro and macro levels interact with one other. One of the hypotheses is that, at least for the moment, of (...)

Development: Rise and Decline of an Ideal
:: Wolfgang Sachs :: September 2000 ::

An Article for the Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change The rise of epochs often goes unnoticed, but the dawning of the development age occurred at a precise date and time. On 20 January 1949, President Harry S. Truman, in his Inaugural Address to Congress, dubbed the home of more than half the world's people "underdeveloped areas." Documents EN83 ko, 40 pages

The Territory: Cornerstone of Future Governance :: September 1997 ::

Meeting in Jonquière, Canada, September 1997. In the proposal to structure the sectoral path of the Alliance, a chapter was devoted to the management of territorial entities. In September 1997, on the occasion of an international conference organized in Canada, the NIKAN conference, the first international meeting of the Workshop was held. The following text is an outgrowth of that meeting. Documents ENFR38 ko, 8 pages66 ko, 14 (...)

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