Le pouvoir plutôt que la participation : les principes d’une nouvelle approche de la planification territoriale décentralisée

In the last 10 years, backing decentralized management of land and renewable resources has been an increasing relevant concern. However, the fundamental objectives of the baking (increasing autonomy of actors, evolution of decision making processes, sustainable management of resources) are not easy to appraise, specially because the participatory concept seems to have some backgrounds too technocratic to be suitable for the specific purpose of the local empowerment in land use planning. Our approach comes back to a learning-by-doing process far away from the universal and ‘ready to apply’ approaches and tools that always dominate, even in participatory approaches. Face to variability and uncertainty of the ‘territory complex’, the Bottom-up Regional Planning only tries to promote an endogenous process of concerted negotiation. In this case, planning is not a collective choice between several possibly scenarios, but an accompanying approach of a local decision-making process which feels his own way, supported by specifics endogenous information systems, from GIS and Role Playing Game to new computer modeling systems.