Analyse économique du paysage et relations de proximités : de l’oubli au conflit

Abstract

This article aims at establishing the historical link between landscape questions and analyses led in the field of economics – with a particular emphasis on the notions of proximities. Indeed, it appears that, as with the questions on space, the landscape had long been one of the great forgotten notions of the theory of economics, and that its recent rehabilitation goes through the fact of taking value matters into account. The text begins with the slow introduction of the issues dealing with space, and then with landscape in economics’ analysis, and to end up confronting the notion of landscape to the basics of economical analysis – especially the questions of public or joint goods. Then, after having introduced the bases of the analysis of proximities, we show that this approach allows to plan the treatment of landscape’s issues other than value, such as the processes of competition between spaces or the conflicts concerning landscape dimensions.

Keywords

• landscape
• Proximity
• space
• economics