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Vol. 46 • No 2 - 2023

Vol. XLVI Numéro spécial / Special issue


Table des matières / Table of contents


Note éditoriale - Quelle planification spatiale pour quelle résilience territoriale? La gouvernance locale en question / Editorial note - Which spatial planning for which territorial resilience? The challenge of local governance

Abdelillah Hamdouch, José Serrano & Kamal Serrhini


Aménagement, urbanisme et « dialogue cityoen » à Nantes : d'ambiguités en contradictions

Jacques Fache


Vers une gouvernance collaborative comme levier d'adaptation de la population et son cadre de vie aux changements climatiques. Étude comparée de deux communes au Bénin

Hyppolite Dossa Dansou & Mario Carrier


Les entreprises locales d'énergie, leviers de transition énergétique?

Valentin Poucineau


Préservation des sols et perception des services écosystémiques des sols dans les espaces périurbains

Josée Serrano, Yannick Poyat & Didier Boutet


Land policy in resilience building: The case of the Evros River basin in Northern Greece

Pavlos-Marinos Delladetsimas & Xenia Katsigianni


Du conflit à la concentration autour des peupleraies (France): un exemple de stratégie pour une plus grande résilience territoriale face au changement climatique?

Amélie Robert


Vulnérabilité non-structurelle et résilience territoriale en situation de multi-risque. Perception et préférences cartographiques des aléas effondrement et inondation (val d'Orléans, Loiret, France)

Kamal Serrhini, Yolaine Moy, Gildas Noury, José Serrano & Hedieh Soltanpour


The Canadian Journal of Regional Science is an academic journal published on behalf of the Canadian Regional Science Association (a non-profit scientific organization). It was originally founded in 1978 on the premise that it would fill a void in the Canadian social sciences literature and contribute to the development of regional science as a field of inquiry in the country. Today, the journal’s main objective continues to be publishing high-quality research that advances our understanding of regional issues. It does so by (i) providing a forum for interdisciplinary research on regional and urban issues, (ii) encouraging academics to undertake research on regional issues and (iii) promoting the exchange of ideas across different academic disciplines, both in Canada and beyond.

The special features of the Journal

The Canadian Journal of Regional Science is unique in the Canadian context since it the only one dedicated to providing a critical research outlet for interdisciplinary work on regional and urban issues. Authors who publish in the journal do indeed come from a wide array of disciplines (from economics, geography, sociology and transportation sciences to urban planning, population and policy studies). The journal is also unique in that it offers authors the possibility to publish their work in either English or French, one of the few bilingual journals in the field of regional science across the world.

Origins and evolution of the Journal

The Canadian Journal of Regional Science began publication in 1978 at the Regional and Urban Studies Centre, Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University under the co-editorship of Andrew S. Harvey and William J. Coffey. In 1988 the editorship (and production) moved to INRS-Urbanisation at the Université du Québec a Montréal with Professor Jacques Ledent as editor.

Beginning with Volume 16 (1993), production of the journal moved to the Department of Economics, University of New Brunswick with William J. Milne serving as editor. Christopher Bryant of the Université de Montréal took over as editor with Volume 20 (1997) and continued through Volume 33 (2010), assisted on the production front by Doug Woodward.

The year 2010 marked an important milestone as the first issue of Volume 33 saw the journal move to an online, open access format. A year later, Professor John Miron of the University of Toronto Scarborough assumed the editorship with Volume 34 (2011), along with Yann Fournis (Université du Québec à Rimouski) and Jean Dubé (Université Laval) as French co-editors.

With the publication of Volume 42 (2019), Jean Dubé (Université Laval) and Sébastien Breau (McGill University) have taken the lead as co-editors of the journal. While the journal has been redesigned with an entirely new layout, new website and a new partnership with Érudit, its main objective continues to be publishing high-quality work that advances our understanding of regional issues.