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The territory is the product of the constant interactions between those who inhabit the spaces based on their perceptions, conceptions and experiences. This defines, to a great extent, the identity of the communities that signify, modify and administer it. Faced with these interactions, frustrations or possibilities can be found in the development of the communities and their quality of life. This article recognizes how, in the geoprospective exercise developed by the Piapoco indigenous community based on the participatory action research (PAR), the proposal of a territorial intelligence model is structured within the framework of sustainable development and food sovereignty at La Victoria indigenous reserve, Colombia. This proposal is carried out in response to the actual needs and worldview of the indigenous community, as support for decision making and the development of the action plan of their life plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Small cities in developing countries are under a set of transitions that imperil their sustainability and whose repercussions can reach the international level. Therefore, local decision-makers need specific geoprospective urban models to seek alternative pathways. This paper presents a housing allocation model, designed to meet the context of small cities in developing countries. It is a multi-level Cellular Automata that relies on a new apprehension of urbanisation process, implemented through raster irregular grid with time-step variation. The model application to reconstruct housing dynamics in Kasba-Tadla city in Morocco, between 1999 and 2016, confirmed its ability to mimic well the spatio-temporal allocation of housing settlements. The obtained results showed that the spatial allocation of informal settlements is not anarchic, but driven by flexible rules, and also revealed Kasba-Tadla city could have better negotiated the after ‘Arab Spring’ urban transformations if local decision-makers had foreknowledge.

Landscapes Prospective Modeling of the landscapes of the Haut Sassandra Classified Forest (Côte d'Ivoire) After the End of The Conflicts. It has been demonstrated that armed conflicts cause biodiversity's degradation, especially in its ecosystemic and specific dimensions. The Haut Sassandra Classified Forest is an interesting case study for this kind of process. Indeed, during the conflicts, a massive migrants infiltration caused a forest cover decline and a plant diversity loss. We created a multi-agent system able to simulate the actors' movements and behaviors. The social simulation generates scenario in the form of clearing maps in classified forest. This model was first conceived as a retro-prospective model in order to test hypotheses on the social dynamics underlying this process, after having worked on its accuracy by confronting reality. This model being validated, the aim of this paper is to present a prospective modeling to illustrate, in terms of forest cover's conservation, the possible consequences of different demographic and political scenarios. Across a geoprospective logic, two scenarios are mentioned such as the continuation of conflict period trends and a proposition of ecological restoration.

Small cities in developing countries are under a set of transitions that imperil their sustainability and whose repercussions can reach the international level. Therefore, local decision-makers need specific geoprospective urban models to seek alternative pathways. This paper presents a housing allocation model, designed to meet the context of small cities in developing countries. It is a multi-level Cellular Automata that relies on a new apprehension of urbanisation process, implemented through raster irregular grid with time-step variation. The model application to reconstruct housing dynamics in Kasba-Tadla city in Morocco, between 1999 and 2016, confirmed its ability to mimic well the spatio-temporal allocation of housing settlements. The obtained results showed that the spatial allocation of informal settlements is not anarchic, but driven by flexible rules, and also revealed Kasba-Tadla city could have better negotiated the after ‘Arab Spring’ urban transformations if local decision-makers had foreknowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a new approach and the initial feedback in a research that seeks to provoke reflections and reactions to different stakeholders on future changes in their living territory. This project is divided into two stages. The first is a production of different scenarios of changes in land use, associated with a 3D virtual representation of landscape. The second stage is a participatory workshop in small groups of stakeholders. The shared collective thinking is based on 3D virtual representations of transformations of space that were chosen by the participants from an application designed for this project. The study area, located on the coastal zone of Alpes- Maritimes, is very threatened by fast and diffuse urbanization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Prospective studies considered that the future is not determined. Time is then a lever to enhance debates. More recently, « geoprospective » has integrated space in discussions about possible futures. That questions directly the functions of the spatial and the temporal dimensions, especially the capacity of space and time to play as intermediaries for participation. We applied this question on the case of a fishery in the Bay of Biscay. On the one hand, we demonstrated that the participative method, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, as well as simple and complex tools, allowed to describe the stakes of the case study and to imagine spatially-explicit possible changes. On the other hand, we also pointed that space and time could have been an obstruction for participation.