Politiques de développement durable en Guyane : souveraineté sur les ressources forestières by Catherine Aubertin, Suzanne Pons

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Quand les politiques environnementales attisent les tensions interculturelles en Guyane française by Théo Jacob, Marianne Palisse, Catherine Aubertin

“…This paper shows, from three perspectives, how the environmental policies in French Guiana, trying to deal with the local cultural diversity, tend to ethnicize social relations. The Guiana Amazonian Park, which seems to be a reaffirmation of the state’s presence in the southern French Guiana, experiments modes of governance which increase inter-ethnic competition. …”
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La forêt guyanaise, entre valorisation et protection des ressources écosystémiques by André Calmont

“…The awareness to potential risks on environmental biodiversity in an encouraging international atmosphere, has led public authorities to take a number of measures, regulatory, of sustainable management, and above all, in establishing a network of natural protected areas, such as a new National Park, called “The French Guiana Amazonian Park”.…”
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Production of a Tourist Space and Territorial Governance Regime in French Guiana (Guyane Française)—The Challenges of Touristification in the Peripheral Territory of Haut-Maroni by Luc Renaud, Bruno Sarrasin

“…This article focuses on the processes of territorialization of the local population’s living space, created by the governance regime in French Guiana, and their effects on the production of a tourist space in the context of sparsely populated regions. The Guiana Amazonian Park is analyzed as a territorialization agent with mechanisms that influence the development of tourism in the Maripasoula/Haut-Maroni zone. …”
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