Anticipation and territory. Does collecting information need citizens? Philippe Herbaux
- Philippe HERBAUX. Doctor in Information and Communication Sciences, University of Lille, France
Abstract
Anticipating unbalances and threats within a territory most often lies in an ensemble of indicators. A sometimes basic system of information provides the decision-makers with warnings. Yet, a number of risks, ei¬ther rapid deflagration ones or from quite scattered origins, cannot rely on a symptomatic treatment only but requests collecting from multiple sources beforehand and aiming at a semiological treatment of information evo¬lution. Part of our study on territorial intelligence leads us to think that the processes of anticipation of outbreaks within the territory will tend to be based on collecting methodologies encompassing the participation of “ordi¬nary individual”. Two observations on air surveillance on the one hand and on biodiversity seasonal evolutions in France on the other show these new enterprises and collective methods of mutualisation of information within the territory in an actors-oriented paradigm.
Keywords
Mutualisation, semiology, sustainable development, anticipation.
Cite this paper
HERBAUX P., 2009. Anticipation and territory. Does collecting information need citizens? In International Conference of Territorial Intelligence, Besançon 2008. Papers on Tools and methods of Territorial Intelligence, MSHE, Besançon, 2009, p. 309-317. <URL: http://www.territorial-intelligence.eu/index.php/besancon08/Herbaux>
