The areas of industrial tradition have to face many challenges, among which the reduction of unemployment, soil depollution, economic redeployment and urban revival are important issues. These basins are singularly affected by world and regional dynamics, in front of which the local actors, first concerned, feel penniless. More generally, one can consider that local territories are subjected to increasingly complex constraints and dynamics (delocalization, metropolisation, exurbanisation…). This makes essential the search for innovating solutions in order to ensure a harmonious development of territories respecting sustainable development principles.
Conscious of the fact that the economic redeployment cannot be considered under only one sectoral angle, but that it is necessary to adopt a systemic approach; the SEGEFA brought its methodological support and its expertise in order to create a project of territory which integrates economic, social and environmental dimensions. This final report must make it possible for the Commune to take specific measures for the concretization of a strategic development plan. Consequently, it constitutes a tool of decision-making aid. At the beginning of the project, the participation of citizens was privileged in order to enrich the diagnosis by a more perceptive approach, and to share the conclusions of the territorial project for the broadest adhesion possible. Consequently, territorial actors were recognized as experts of the real-life experience of their territories, essential component of the participative step.
The experiment carried on in Flémalle tends to engage a permanent process of territorial intelligence, through the actors and with the support of an expert assesment either internally or externally. The first part of this article will deal with the particular context of the research, which tends to justify the emergence of the concept of territorial intelligence in a metropolitan context. The second chapter will be related to the methods employed in order to implement the stages, before approaching the results of the latter in the third chapter. The last chapter will approach, finally, the keys of the success of the process and the added-value generated by a process of territorial intelligence, in view of the research undertaken in the coordination action of the European network of territorial intelligence (caENTI).
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