Challenges for territorial planning in the search of sustainable development: environment in local south mediterranean planning

Communication oraleInternational audienceIn the Agenda21 (1992) and the Aïchi declaration (2012), local scale has been assessed as the most relevant to adapt to contexts specificities such as demography and culture, socio-economics and environmental conditions in the search of sustainability. Still, the Agenda21 set a global environmental action plan providing guidelines to be followed by countries. Since then, many countries have developed tools such as environmental assessments and participatory approaches with stakeholders so as to take into account natural resources and constraints and to integrate them with economic and social development perspectives ; such approaches are said be all the more easy to implement at local level when decentralisation is institutionalised ; a study was carried on in three Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Lebanon and Morroco) and shows how environment is taken into account at local level and that the articulation with regional planning is often still challenging