Teaching article: Sustainable development of rural territories: challenges of interdisciplinarity

Abstract

The combination of global crisis and recent transformations in rural territories demonstrate the limitations of the dominant paradigm to explain these changes in a systemic way. They also reveal the need for a new framework to guide collective action. New concepts and approaches are created. New research agendas are articulated based on interdisciplinary models of analysis. The foundation of an emerging paradigm begins to be built, integrating complex fields of knowledge. The territorial approach and the notion of Sustainable Development of Rural Territories are part of the paradigm’s transition.