Huelva 2007 - Thematic fields

This annual international conference of territorial intelligence, entitled "Territorial intelligence and governance, participative research-action and territorial development", precisely focused on the discussion on these topics and especially on the participation potentialities and limits and on the difficulties of this principle implementation within the framework of the territorial research-action activity.
The communications had to analyse or think about some of the following topics.

A. The participative research-action applied to the sustainable territorial development

• Participative research-action activity vs. Conventional research activity.
• Analyse and implementation of the principles which sustain the territorial research-action activity: sustainability, multidimensionality, partnership, participation…
• Participative research-action and territorial governance.

B. Application of the methods and tools of participative research-action to the sustainable territorial development

• Participative methods for the territorial research-action: potentialities and limits.
• Instruments and tools based on the information and communication technologies and applied to the participative research-action on the sustainable territorial development: potentialities and limits.

C. Analyse of Participative Research-Action Experiences applied to territorial projects diagnosis, programming, management and evaluation

• The analytical texts that will be based on concrete experiences that allow drawing conclusions about the efficiency of the used participative methodologies, as from the knowledge generation point of view as from the solving of the defined problematic one were privileged.