This manual provides key information and instructions on the application and use of the SHERPA Characterisation Tool for rural areas. The tool was developed to examine the characteristics of rural areas in the EU. It consists of an excel file providing information on a set of indicators related to different key topics (e.g. climate, infrastructure,...
Le Belize, territoire issu d'une colonisation britannique tardive en Amérique centrale, multiplie les spécificités. L'ouvrage aborde les fondements territoriaux de l'ordre colonial sous deux angles complémentaires qui, ensemble, éclairent les comportements des acteurs et leurs diversités : d'une part, la construction juridique et administrative de ...
For a long time, the genre of Belizean historiography has been defined by a blindness toward the Earth. If colonial historiography treated the Earth as nothing more than brute nature?a blank canvas upon which the British did their business?then critical or post-colonial historiography has generally ignored the problem.Odile Hoffmann confronts this ...
This deliverable D3.2 aims at compiling the existing data, knowledge and policy framework on rural in the EU, so to provide an operational framework for SHERPA multi-actor platforms (MAPs) when they come at describing rural trends, challenges and opportunities in their respective areas.
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The main determinants of agricultural employment are related to households’ access to private assets and the influence of inherited social–economic stratification and power relationships. However, despite the recommendations of rural studies which have shown the importance of multilevel approaches to rural poverty, very few studies have explored qu...
Les processus de dégradation et de préservation des ressources naturelles s'accompagnent souvent de tensions et conflits entre les acteurs des territoires. Le cadre des services écosystémiques (SE) est désormais communément utilisé pour analyser ces processus et penser les termes d'une meilleure gouvernance. Nous développons ici l'idée impertinente...
In 2020, the European Commission initiated the preparation of a new long-term vision for rural areas. SHERPA can contribute to the process by feeding in the views of science-society-policy actors from 20 European territories. SHERPA Multi-Actor Platforms (MAPs) are invited to discuss local challenges and opportunities as well as their vision for th...
Le nouvel horizon sénégalais. Peuplement et urbanisation des campagnes occidentales aux périphéries orientales Résumé Alors que le peuplement du territoire sénégalais se concentrait dans quelques parties du pays, plusieurs processus contemporains remettent en question la répartition spatiale de la population : la densification de zones auparavant p...
