Based on the results of empirical and conceptual research, the paper is about the relation between resource and development at a regional scale and from the point of view of regional policy. The question of the resource refers to a multitude of objects and situations. May one think of resources...

Fast food development is not any more centered on homogenous world products. Fast food chains are more and more using regional food to attract new markets. After a period where the world system was the engine of fast food diffusion, ethnic and regional food is back. In countries where people are...

Le « non urbain » couvre l’essentiel de l’espace des pays occidentaux. C’est le lieu d’invention de nouvelles pratiques économiques, sociales, de pouvoir, liées à un processus fondamental : la rurbanisation. Cet article se propose d’analyser les causes de ce mouvement et de...

In occidental countries the ?non urban? land covers the majority of national territories. It is the place of invention for new economic, social, and power practices, linked to the fundamental process of rurbanisation. In this paper, we propose to analyze the reasons for this movement and to find...