La crise écologique que nous traversons se manifeste notamment par le dérèglement climatique, le déclin de la biodiversité et diverses formes de pollution et de dégradation des écosystèmes. Cette crise est de nature socioéconomique dans la mesure où ce sont les systèmes de gestion et...

This book upturns many established ideas regarding the economic and social history of Quebec, the Canadian province that is home to the majority of its French population. It places the case of Quebec into the wider question of convergence in economic history and whether proactive governments...

This article on empowerment in Quebec and Canada focuses on the capacity of citizens to create new institutional spaces in which they play a decisive role in designing socio-economic development strategies. Drawing on the concept of empowered participatory governance developed by Erik Olin...

Can we still set farmers against non-farmers, locals against new-migrants in the contemporary rurality ? Proposing the notion of communities of relationships with the landscape as a new framework for the analysis of the rural populations, this article intends to show the contribution of the...