De l’utilité de la prospective stratégique pour construire le développement territorial durable. Leçons d’une expérience régionale en Région Centre-Val de Loire (France)
On the usefulness of strategic foresight to build sustainable territorial development. Lessons from a regional experience in the Centre-Val de Loire Region (France)

Summary/Abstract: The sustainable territorial development (STD) strategies, at regional as well as at local levels, require long term spatial visions exploring the possible futures of the territories where they are implemented. Consequently, the local or regional public action having as aims territorial cohesion and sustainability need to rely on a foresight approach, which cannot be a simple statistical and economic forecast, so as to take into account the plurality of possible futures. In this paper, summarizing the main findings of a prospective approach about the impact of metropoles on regional cohesion by 2050 within the Centre-Val de Loire Region (France), we try to exemplify the contribution and limits on designing a STD regional strategy. For this aim, as an example, we use the case study of the Centre-Val de Loire (France) Economic, Social and Environmental Regional Council. This was done to analyze long term territorial consequences of the institutionalization of metropoles in both main cities of this region, Tours and Orléans. But, first, we begin by introducing summarily the principles and methods of a foresight procedure.

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