Article Dans Une Revue Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure Année : 2025

Recreational forests: Governance, living space, and ecological transition / Forêts récréatives : gouvernance, territoire de vie et transition écologique

Recreational forests: Governance, living space, and ecological transition / Forêts récréatives : gouvernance, territoire de vie et transition écologique

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The article examines the results of a “citizen consultation” organised by local public officials through a questionnaire-based consultation approach to the management of urban and peri-urban forests. The study shows how forests are at the same time strong, complex, and ambivalent policy levers in a public consultation process. The article, first of all, specifies the economic context of the case study, namely that of a metropolis in the north of France with a population of 500,000 people. It then presents the methods and the occasionally divergent results of the metropolitan “dialogue” survey (dated 2020, n = 375) on the one hand, and a university survey (dated 2020, n = 774) on the other. The results obtained reveal the challenges, difficulties, and limits of a participatory approach, given the high degree of ambivalence and contrast in the way population groups relate to woodland and the representative/participatory systems. The article highlights the complexity involved in the management of woodlands and their use as part of a political process that is both participatory and sustainable.

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hal-05045006 , version 1 (24-04-2025)

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Charly Machemehl, Charlotte Birks, Damien Féménias. Recreational forests: Governance, living space, and ecological transition / Forêts récréatives : gouvernance, territoire de vie et transition écologique. Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, 2025, 7 (2), pp.174-185. ⟨10.1080/07053436.2025.2586477⟩. ⟨hal-05045006⟩
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