La recherche participative sur la transition écologique : une transférabilité à tâtons

Abstract

The Transilience action research project (2019-2023) had the primary challenge of getting academics, associations and citizens to work together on transition and territorial resilience. Its objectives were to propose a transferable participatory research protocol and to develop an intervention kit for citizen groups in transition. The project was first deployed in a very open, experimental approach in Couserans (Ariège). It was then applied to other rural areas (Gers, Haute-Garonne) at the cost of a reorientation according to an approach more framed around workshops for the co-construction of community-based indicators, an approach facilitating the transferability of research. This article highlights the opportunities and difficulties of participatory research in total co-construction or framed by scientists.

Keywords

• ecological transition
• territorial resilience
• participative research
• political ecology
• collaborative tools