Le rapprochement Chercheur-Consultant en aménagement du territoire : un apport à haute valeur ajoutée ?

En aménagement du territoire, de nouvelles pratiques partenariales semblent émerger lors de la réalisation d'expertises (études, ingénierie de projets, audits, etc.). Si le recours aux cabinets-conseils – au Consultant – et aux laboratoires scientifiques – au Chercheur – par les services de l'Etat ou les collectivités territoriales existe depuis de nombreuses années, le rapprochement et le partenariat entre les consultants et les chercheurs est récent. Certes, cette pratique n’est pas encore systématique en aménagement du territoire mais elle constitue, selon les commanditaires publics, un apport à haute valeur ajoutée dans les prestations de services.In urban planning new partnership practices seem to appear through the realization of expertises (studies, projects engineering, audits…). Although the appeal to consulting firms – to consultants – and in the scientific laboratories – to researchers – by the State services or local government, exists for a long time now, the partnership between consultants and researchers is recent. Even though this partnership is not systematic in urban planning, it brings a contribution with a high added value in the services, according to the public partners

Retour d’expérience sur les apports du géographe dans l’observation des effets du changement climatique

L’adaptation au changement climatique constitue un défi sociétal dont le géographe doit s’emparer. Sa capacité d’appréhender le territoire et ses acteurs, ainsi que sa vision holistique, en font un interlocuteur privilégié des politiques publiques d’aménagement. A partir d’un retour d’expérience concernant la métropole lyonnaise, cette publication démontre le rôle joué par le géographe dans la structuration et l’innovation, selon une démarche intégrée et au sein d’une structure plurielle d’observation scientifique.Adaptation to climate change can be currently considered as a societal challenge that geographers must tackle. Their capacity to understand the territory and its actors, and their holistic vision, make them privileged partners of the public urban planners. This paper, concerning an ongoing project about the Greater Lyon, highlights the role of geographers in the structuration and innovation, according to an integrated process and within a plural scientific observation structure

Inter-territorial cooperation within the metropolitan area Lyon – Saint-Etienne : forms, actors and challenges

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From Greater Lyon to Lyon Metropole : new form, new challenges

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L'insertion professionnelle par la thèse en aménagement et urbanisme : l'exemple des thèse en Cifre

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La détermination de territoires adaptés pour la métropole lyonnaise : essai de méthodologie

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L'efficacité du découpage territorial : contribution méthodologique pour déterminer des territoires d'expertise adaptés

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New challenges to classical territory representations brought about by urban networks and systems

International audienceFrom a French regulatory perspective, the “metropolitan fact” is recognised by Maptam law, which currently regulates a process of metropolisation for the last five decades. The “regional fact” is recognised by Notre law, which enlarge French regional competences and perimeters in view of a better position of French regions in the EU chess game. Currently, region/metropole dialog is the major vector of territorial dynamics, which reinforce a logic of inter-territoriality, imposing variable-geometry tools or scenes of governance, such as metropolitan poles or Scot. In the same way, economic actorsorganise along networks logic or cooperation or partnership, allowing a more flexible dialog with territorial governing bodies, in a similar way to competitive clusters and Communities of Universities and educative institutions (COMUE).But surface or perimeter approaches invite only a partial understanding of the French territorial dynamics and structuration. Indeed various types of cooperation between actors shape genuine urban systems at different scales. Thus, so called “proximity” systems are also connected — and impacted— by more “transversal” flux of cooperation between big metropoles, for instance. In France, each system is connected to the Parisian metropole, and regional systems also operate in interconnection.These types of governance invite a re-questioning of classical representations of territory; this is the current mission of urban planning agencies, as true tools of social engineering