Academic disciplines evolve and regional science is no exception. Physics, French or economics changes over time but at the end of the day (or decade), they remain physics, French or economics. But regional science is different; it can take on the perspectives of geography, economics, planning,...

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...

The ?dense city? is a well accepted concept. ?Rurbanization?, on the contrary, is often criticized despite the fact that a vast majority of people prefer to live in an individual home, close to nature, outside the cities. This paper deals with the causes and consequences of rurbanization and...

Afin de montrer l’utilité de la géographie des risques pour aborder la notion de « risque sanitaire », cet article tente de faire une synthèse sur ce concept en confrontant plusieurs défi nitions du risque et une vision globale de la santé. Le schéma qui en résulte pose la question...

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...