Jean-François Rodriguez's scientific contributions

... Ces trois termes sont parfois utilisés de manière indifférenciée : le territoire, par exemple, peut correspondre à « un construit social permanent, en constante appropriation » (Leloup et al., 2005, p. 326), définition qui se rapproche beaucoup de celle du paysage perçue dans une perspective constructiviste. Celui-ci, de son côté, est souvent associé à des enjeux environnementaux, notamment dans les zones périurbaines (Lardon et Piveteau, 2005 ;Davodeau et Toublanc, 2010), mais aussi à travers la prise en charge de certaines thématiques : outre les enjeux agricoles, l'accent est mis sur des enjeux tels que l'implantation d'industries (Fortin, 2004) ou de centrales hydroélectriques (Davasse et al., 2016), ou encore l'examen de l'« état écologique » des cours d'eau (Bercovitz, 2013). ...

... dei fieldwork promossi, ad esempio, dalla historical geography britannica (Balzaretti, Watkins 2013, 205; questo saggio risulta interessante anche per un approfondimento bibliografico sulla pratica dei fieldwork nelle ricerche di geografia culturale applicata allo studio dei paesaggi rurali). Esperienze simili sono state compiute anche in Francia (Davasse et Al. 2017), ad esempio nell'ambito di ricerche in géographie de l'environnement, e in Olanda, strumento applicato per la landscape biography. 18 Le osservazioni di terreno venivano apprezzate ma soprattutto demandate a Diego Moreno, Carlo Montanari e Roberta Cevasco; tuttavia restava attiva la discussione che Quaini ha intrattenuto per la raccolta ...

... Le but est de faire sortir le paysage d'une appréciation esthétique inconsciente des codifications qui l'ordonnent et de lui rendre toute l'épaisseur que lui confèrent la mémoire qu'il porte et le témoignage qu'il délivre sur les relations des sociétés à leurs environnements et à leurs ressources. C'est là l'objectif visé par le projet de recherche « Ressources énergétiques et ressources paysagères » (Briffaud, 2014), sur lequel cet article s'appuie 1 . En construisant une « lecture énergétique » diachronique des paysages montagnards, ce projet vise à faire de ces paysages un support de médiation, rassemblant les acteurs et habitants concernés autour d'un même objet de réflexion et permettant simultanément de penser les connexions entre la question énergétique et de nombreuses autres questions relatives à la gestion des territoires et au développement local. ...

... In the European mountain areas, two opposing processes have coexisted since the mid-twentieth century: intensification of land use and abandonment of agricultural areas. This contradictory situation leads to conflicts between land use and landscape quality, with social, economic and territorial consequences (Antoine et al., 2011). Multifunctionality in rural areas has now appeared as a new development framework strategy (OCDE, 2001;Zasada, 2011). ...

... Indeed, when approaching a particular field with a view to conducting research on it, discourses on local resource management often address historical aspectsalso revealing a more or less direct way of considering space: the location of a river, engineering and access being prohibited in a sacred forest, distance from another village, prohibition of certain uses in well-defined areas (hills, etc.). Landscape is mobilized on the ground as a guide/medium for building and targeting interview locations for gaining an understanding of certain social rules (Blanc-Pamard, 1986;Caillault and Marie, 2010;Davasse et al., 2012). Our reading of the landscapes pays attention to spatial details, which are only observable from the ground, and are important at local level to understand access and control over land (i.e quality of soils and land owners, age of a mango plantation, etc.). ...

... In the specialized literature the city was defined, in a general way, as a system that relies on a network of personal and institutional relationships, thereby making possible the shaping and defining the concept of urban life and the quality of urban life. (Briffaud, Davasse, 2007, Piroddi, Colarossi, 1991 In the paper "The Transformation of Cities: Urban Theory and Urban Life" published in 2002, Thorns highlights the fact that urban space "is constituted as an important element in the process by which people organize and make sense of their lifestyle, creates a sense of identity, who they are and where they want to reach". (Thorns, 2002) Although, this idea has now been released for over 20 years, regarding the development of Constanţa, inhabitants of this town have tried to organize their lifestyle, but failed to consolidate the historical identity and traditional element. ...