Territorial action: a conceptual and methodological proposal for its analysis

Abstract

Territorial action is the basic input for the construction of territories and territorial development. This concept supports the analysis of the ways in which public action, collective action and private action construct territories, often in contradictory and conflicting manners. Thus, the concept of territorial action constitutes an intellectual challenge since it enables us to analyze territorial realities without falling onto the developmental path of the paradigm of modernity, which proposes that the inescapable destiny of territories is development (modernization and growth), and opens the doors to consider various, multiple ways for the future of territories. This article finally provides as a product, ideas and methodological proposals for analysing territorial action

Keywords:
territorial action; territorial development; resources; actors; methodology