Proximity analyses have nowadays turned out to be a part of the toolbox of regional scientists and this notion recently became very popular in the position of politics, and private or public stakeholders. In parallel, the notion of proximity spread in the academic literature and is now commonly...

The aim of this paper is to shed light on territorial development and rural development issues, and to review the links and differences between. Indeed, everything points to reach those dimensions that have long seemed disconnected. On the one hand, rural policies incorporate explicitly the...

Empirical observation of the forms of agriculture developing at the periphery of cities reveals the generalized presence of particular types of production or commercialisation, which explains why certain sectors, such as the vegetable growing industry or the proximate agricultural productions,...