Une gouvernance territoriale endogène de l'environnement : contours et enjeux. Près de 300 initiatives soumises à une analyse comparative

Environment?s territorial governance can be the result of exogenous public actions in local territories, but also of local initiatives of dialog which are developing in public spheres. The analysis of a sample of about three hundred of such local initiatives, all over the french metropolitan territory, made us able to read its diversity, to study the way they complete, correct or inspire the public policies and to identify their impacts. Providing innovations, they contribute to the creation of a debating middle, which serve as a base for the construction of compromises indispensable to a sustainable development. They make emerge new organized proximities on specific scales fitted to new environmental stakes, make the territorial borders change and contribute to endow territories of a specific social capital. They remain however little recognized : we draw outlines of what could be public policies of support for these forms of governance.