Local development

Articles

• Terroir
  8 November 2013, by L. R.

  This French term has no equivalent in English. In French the word, which is related to the word territoire, and also recalls "terre" (land, soil) is variously used to refer to a portion of terrestrial space, a physical unit, a "«territory»" shaped by man, a finage, or rural district or parish specific to an agricultural community, a product or a particular social feature that is singularly rural (such as an "accent du terroir" (local accent), "produits du terroir" (local produce) etc). In (...)

• Local development
  30 July 2012, by F.S.

  Local development is a process of diversification and enhancement of economic and social activity on local scale in a « territory», by way of the mobilisation and coordination of its material and immaterial resources. This notion refers at once to a stance adopted towards development issues, to a method for developing local territories, and to the analysis framework for assessing its functioning.
  The notion of local «development» appeared in France in the 1970s, at a time when certain (...)