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Keywords: Justice sociale, mobilité quotidienne, accessibilité, Plan de Déplacements Urbains, acteurs des territoires, Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon
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ABSTRACTNew Public Management appeared in the laboratories of neo-liberal ideas in the 1970s. Even if it is not the most radical of the projects to reform welfare states, it is part of the same tendency. The article examines, in turn, the major principles of the New Public Management, its theoretical underpinnings, and the results of experiments to implement it in the area of social assistance. The author argues that the notion of New Public Management operates as a myth, whose efficiency is more and more put into question by evaluations of the experiments.
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This paper explores the potential role of public properties in the maintenance or redevelopment of urban agriculture. It is based on a spatial analyzis of public properties, public acquisitions and on in-depth interviews in Montpellier city region. The results show that the public properties represent a considerable spatial extent, but less than half of the surfaces has an interest for agriculture due to land fragmentation, the specific features of land or urbanization perspectives. Agriculture remains marginal in public land strategies. Public and parapublic land acquisition and management are rarely coordinated. However, some local authorities develop strategies for farmland protection. Other public bodies turn to agriculture to maintain the land in their possession. They show that public properties could thus become a lever to maintain or redevelop agriculture on the urban fringe.
Keywords: inventaire foncier, agriculture urbaine, protection du foncier agricole, gouvernance, land inventory, urban agriculture, farmland preservation, governance
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The growing range of risks and crises of the 21st century constitutes a real challenge for territories. The focus today is on the resilience capacities to be developed. These capacities oscillate in the literature between individual, organisational and territorial dimensions, without any real integrated approach linking them. This research studies the conceptual and practical articulation between territorial resilience and public finance. It explores the resilience strategies of 8 European cities and the way they articulate their strategic thinking on territorial and financial resilience. Despite non-homogeneous practices, our results reveal a relatively small articulation.
Keywords: résilience territoriale et financière, gestion des risques/crises, finances publiques, développement durable, collectivités territoriales, territorial and financial resilience, risk/crisis management, public finance, sustainable development, local governments, resiliencia territorial y financiera, gestión de riesgos/crisis, finanzas públicas, desarrollo sostenible, autoridades locales
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In Quebec, like elsewhere in the world, we are witnessing a growing concern for the population's mental health and for the importance of concentrating efforts on prevention and promotion. In this context, public health actors are invited to adopt a leadership role in advancing mental health promotion and mental disorder prevention goals, and establish the required partnerships with actors from the health and social services and from other sectors who are indispensable to the population mental health agenda. In Canada, public heath actors are not yet sufficiently supported in this role. They express the need to access structuring frameworks which can clarify their action in mental health. This article first presents the momentum for change at the policy level within the field of mental health. A framework to support population mental health action is then presented. The framework identifies the various dimensions underlying the promotion of population mental health as well as the reduction of mental health inequalities. The article finally illustrates how the application of a populational (the application of a populational responsibility perspective) responsibility perspective, as it is defined in the context of Quebec, facilitates the implementation of the various elements of this framework. In the end, public health actors are better equipped to situate their practice in favour of the population's mental health.
Keywords: santé mentale des populations, responsabilité populationnelle, santé publique, population mental health, public health, population-based responsibility
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Public libraries have witnessed considerable development during the last two decades. Changing lifestyles and values have considerably altered the relative importance of several cultural activities. Specifically, interest in reading and access to the free loan of books by libraries have grown to such an extent that one can affirm that the public library carries significant weight in the cultural development of Québec. This weight, however, needs to be structured and strengthened.