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Territorial Resources and Sustainability: Analyzing Development in a “Post-Fordist” Scenario

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In response to the challenges imposed by the effects of economic and cultural homogenization and deterritorialization brought on by Fordist rules of economic growth, territorial development strategies cannot be separated from the quest for sustainability - in particular that of the so-called “territorial resources”. But sustainable development is usually seen as a global response to global issues, whereas territorial development usually takes place at an infra-regional scale, mobilizing local actors concerned by local issues. Our purpose then is to show that it is the confrontation of two systems of reasoning which enables the issues of a “post-Fordist model” to be apprehended. In this sense, we examine what could be termed a flexible and adaptable model of “sustainable territorial development”, whose roots are anchored in the tradition of “eco-development” research.

Bernard Pecqueur is a Professor of Economic Geography at the Université Joseph Fourier of Grenoble. Email. pecqueur@ujf-grenoble.fr

Paolo Freire Vieira is a Professor of Sociology Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

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  1. 1.

    We are referring here to the concept of ‘technical system’ described by Gille (1978) in his work Histoire des techniques, where the author notably shows how the steam engine, the British Industrial Revolution’s key invention, brought about the development of maritime and rail transport, as well as the textile boom and progress in materials (iron, cast iron, steel), building, machine-tools, etc.

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    Bourg and Whiteside (2010) evoke the economist Robert Solow, who defends the idea that the destruction of some received natural capital by a previous generation does not harm the following one.

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  1. UMR PACTE CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble, 14 bis avenue Marie Reynoard, 38000, Grenoble, France

    Bernard Pecqueur

  2. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Universitário Reitor João David Ferreira Lima Trindade, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Paulo Freire Vieira

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Pecqueur, B., Vieira, P.F. (2015). Territorial Resources and Sustainability: Analyzing Development in a “Post-Fordist” Scenario. In: Mancebo, F., Sachs, I. (eds) Transitions to Sustainability. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9532-6_12

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