La difficile territorialisation de la gestion de l’eau au Burkina Faso : une lecture au filtre de la théorie de la proximité

• Main Authors: Bio Mohamadou Torou, Liza Debevec, Dapola Évariste Constant Da
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Réseau Développement Durable et Territoires Fragiles 2018-03-01
• Series: Développement Durable et Territoires
• Subjects: water resources management; local Water Committee; territory; proximity; spatial inequalities; conflict
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/developpementdurable/12046
• ISSN: 1772-9971

Our paper aims to analyze the modalities of coordination among local actors who are involved in integrated water resources management. So as to understand the dynamics of territorialization, we ground our analysis in the proximity framework to highlight that social and spatial relations around water resources are unbalanced. How this spatial inequality is taken into account may favor, or on the contrary, harm the sustainability of coordination. The approach in terms of proximity allows us to account for the complex articulation between the processes of territorial construction and the subsidiarity and participation principles presented as gage of IWRM success.