Dynamism, creativity, involvement are features that are regularly praised by organizations committed to development. Young migrants seem to display many such qualities especially those who return to their home regions. These qualities were shown to be characteristic of return migrants as...

Increasingly many initiatives aim at instigating territories starting - district with the country - from the crafts. That it is a question of developing existing know-how or of supporting the installation of new activities, the « pôles métiers d?art » return to generally intuitive and...

This article brings to light the main plurality of the interest and power conflicts which can burst out among public and private actors involved in a local development plan. Local coordinations indeed depend on the nature of the conflicts in stake, on their neither more nor less diffused...

The link between TGV service and local economic development is a very controversial subject. A lot of effects are quoted in the literature. But their birth is linked to a lot of different conditions. In this paper, we focus on the city size. Analyzing a TGV service in a territory as service...

The relations between public services and local public services are analysed. The local communities are now obliged to consider the requirements of sustainable development, with new constraints and new possibilities for the local public services. The objectives and means of action of the local...

In a globalising economy, territories and not just firms increasingly find themselves in competition with each other. In fact, differently from the case of countries, cities and regions compete, on the international market for goods and production factors, on the basis of an absolute advantage...

During the seventies, economic base theory has been considered only as a theoretical framework for regional development analysis. But with the renewal of its concepts and models, this theory may represent a tool to help decision makers. Indeed, economic base models are able to bring knowledge on...

Complex systems analysis may be used in order to deal with diverse and complex local development. The aim of the paper is to build a comprehensive model based on new trends issuing from regional economics, local governance and policy analysis. Four dynamics emerge : the agents? network, the...

The paper starts with a comparative analysis of two Italian trajectories of local development : the North-East and Sicily. The processes of local development which took place in the North-East and Sicily can be read as an answer to a situation in which the two territories are marginalized and...

This article explores the territorial dynamics in the city of Aleppo -Syria- as a way to reveal the factors of its success. Our analysis depends on a methodology that interprets the results of an empirical work with the help of a theoretical framework based on the concepts of both the localized...