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“Forest and Territory” means the interactions in the prism of proximity

Abstract

National audience. This proposed communication concerns the presentation of the objectives and methodology of a research programme initiated by the GEOLAB Laboratory (UMR 6042) in the framework of the International Research Chair ‘Forest Resources and Use of Wood’, drawn up by the Partnership Foundation of the University of Limoges.In general, the aim is to address the development of the limousine forest sector and to question its sustainability in terms of the conditions for the emergence and stabilisation of local circuits. The limousine forest-based industry faces two major challenges. On the one hand, from upstream to downstream it is poorly structured, and due to their isolation companies are all the more exposed to international competition. On the other hand, its main production apparatus is largely industrialised and specialised in the resin resource. However, supply difficulties are foreseeable in the medium term due to an imbalance in the distribution of age groups, which affects the profitability of production. The forest-based sector is the main source of employment for the rural fabric of limousin. The maintenance and development of this sector is therefore a strategic issue at regional level. The sustainability of the forest-based sector is also suspended from acceptance by local populations and its ability to satisfy the multifunctionality of forest ecosystems. However, the current forestry model of ‘shav-plantation cutting’ poses real problems of social acceptance at the level of forested areas and makes it harder for owners, foresters (farmers) and users (residents, associations and elected representatives) to use this resource. In order to study the conditions for resolving these conflicts as a necessary step for the sustainable development of the sector, we envisage using the reading grid proposed by the Proximity Economy in analysing conflicts relating to the management of natural resources. If the proximity reading grid (Mollard and Torre, 2004; Pecqueur and Zimmermann eds., 2004; Torre and Rallet, 2005) has been widely developed in the fields of industry, industrial ecology (Beaurain et al., 2009; Beaurain and Brullot, 2011) and food processing (Kebir and Torre, 2013) for the study of territorial governance mechanisms (Torre and Filippi, 2005), it has so far been little applied specifically to the field of forty. More specifically, we wish to analyse the influence of the interlinkages, geographical and interpersonal relations, which may arise in the context of the emergence of collective action within this sector. From this point of view, we will pay particular attention to the potential role of developing local circuits in the forest-based sector, assuming that they can make a significant contribution to the stabilisation of the network of actors that structure the sector and the regions (businesses, public actors, institutional actors, users, etc.) and can also be a force for its integration into international markets. In the long term, it is a question of examining how the chains of proximity can meet the need to structure the forest-based sector and to facilitate its integration into local dynamics.

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