L’environnement nocturne dans les territoires de montagne français, ressource et opérateur de transition vers la durabilité

• Main Authors: Samuel Challéat, Dany Lapostolle, Johan Milian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institut de Géographie Alpine 2018-04-01
• Series: Revue de Géographie Alpine
• Subjects: light pollution; night-time environment; territorial resources; transition operator; social-ecological systems
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rga/3895

This article presents our approach to construct the night-time environment (NE) as an interdisciplinary research subject. Understood within the framework of various French mountain areas, we show that the NE is highly indicative of different development trajectories. We analyse them by combining traditional social science research into territory with the ecosystem approaches of the experimental sciences. We show how the NE resource (NER) is transformed into an operator that facilitates the transition towards sustainability. By highlighting three of the NE’s specifications, this work lays the groundwork for a transdisciplinary approach.