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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.
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France's inter-municipal institutions began to be created at the end of the 1950s. Their announced objective was to reinforce public activity at the level of urban agglomerations and to reduce territorial inequalities. Both the up-loading of a set of responsibilities previously held by municipal governments and the nomination of their members by municipal councils make them a sub-national federated institution. This article documents how the institutionalisation of a partisan “grand coalition” at the top of this structure became the main obstacle to policies for redistribution rather than for inter-municipal cooperation, as the supporters of such coalitions had argued would happen.
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This article analyzes three “ages” of educational policies in Quebec as regards equality of opportunity. Age 1 : democratization of school and of society through schooling ; Age 2 : decentralization, competition, accountability : towards a normalization of pathways to success for as many students as possible ; Age 3 : equity, diversity, inclusion and singularity. Inspired by a cognitive approach to public action, this article presents the educational policies specific to each of these “ages” by showing their relationships to macrosocial logics or global referents that governed sectoral educational policies, as well as the configurations of social and educational actors that implemented these policies. Working towards a sociohistorical synthesis, this article advances the idea that state-centric path dependency ensures continuity from one age to the next and that institutional pluralism—a characteristic of Quebec's educational field—carries with it elements of rupture that subvert the dominant referential and induce the movement from one age to the next.
Keywords: référentiel sectoriel de politique éducative, sentier de dépendance, inégalité, équité et inclusion, Sectoral Framework for Education Policy, Path Dependency, Inequality, Equity and Inclusion, marco sectorial de política educativa, trayectoria de dependencia, desigualdad, equidad e inclusión