L’intervention publique paysagère comme processus normatif

Our analysis studies the social production of norms when defining and of landscape policies in the local scale. It shows that this normative production comes along with an evolution concerning the name of some material objects. This new naming, often unstable, expresses normative conflicts because some norms can be very different from those applied up to there, for some actors. It also shows that these conflicts of norms around material objects traduce alternative or combined uses of these objects. So, landscape policies permit to recognize multi-functionality of rural areas by practices connected to leisure activities (hiking, visits). They legitimize the visual appropriation of space which is a specific appropriation which accompanies these practices.