L’Évaluation environnementale de grands projets industriels : potentialités et limites pour la gouvernance territoriale

The setting up of major infrastructures are often object of social disputes in host communities. In this manner, such projects challenge public decision makers. Environmental assessment is meant to help their work. This paper pay attention to negotiations regarding landscape demands, which are becom...

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Main Author: Marie-José Fortin
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Language:fra
Published: Éditions en environnement VertigO 2009-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/8505
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description The setting up of major infrastructures are often object of social disputes in host communities. In this manner, such projects challenge public decision makers. Environmental assessment is meant to help their work. This paper pay attention to negotiations regarding landscape demands, which are becoming more important in recent debates. The research is asking if environmental assessment may be a useful tool for taking into account such demand which concern concrete as well as subjective aspects of environmental quality. The exam of a case study, the settlement of an aluminium smelter in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean area (Québec), concludes that many limits affect the capacity of the procedure. They relate to four aspects of territorial governance: actors’ coordination, legitimacy of decision, considered knowledge, and social groups’ power.
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L’Évaluation environnementale de grands projets industriels : potentialités et limites pour la gouvernance territoriale
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Territorial governance; Industrial mega projects; Environmental assessment; social negotiation; landscape
title L’Évaluation environnementale de grands projets industriels : potentialités et limites pour la gouvernance territoriale
title_full L’Évaluation environnementale de grands projets industriels : potentialités et limites pour la gouvernance territoriale
title_fullStr L’Évaluation environnementale de grands projets industriels : potentialités et limites pour la gouvernance territoriale
title_full_unstemmed L’Évaluation environnementale de grands projets industriels : potentialités et limites pour la gouvernance territoriale
title_short L’Évaluation environnementale de grands projets industriels : potentialités et limites pour la gouvernance territoriale
title_sort l evaluation environnementale de grands projets industriels potentialites et limites pour la gouvernance territoriale
topic Territorial governance; Industrial mega projects; Environmental assessment; social negotiation; landscape
url https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/8505
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