France: the paths to the future

Our old country is reinventing itself, through the abundant diversity of its territories. The productive transformation, digital resources, and ecological constraints are giving rise to an unprecedented profusion of initiatives, which contrast with the bleakness of the national discourse. Based on an in-depth analysis of new circumstances (social, economic, technological and cultural), Pierre Veltz analyses the return of the local scale as a driving force, but also insists on inter-territorial synergies and alliances, which have as yet remained largely unexplored. Rejecting geographical fatalism, he presents a more fluid and open vision of our national territory, in which each and every region has a chance.