Taking a step back from the terrestrial and aquatic ecological network policy at the regional level

Abstract

Despite the major changes that have taken place in the territories (reorganization of governance and regions, launch of a new integrating regional scheme...), the French terrestrial and aquatic ecological network (TVB for short in French) is being implemented at the local level. This article proposes a critical analysis of the elaboration of the Regional Schemes of Ecological Coherence and the first steps of their implementation at a smaller scale. The authors, who have been involved since 2010 in supporting the TVB policy, convey here the knowledge and expertise developed in the course of the work, meetings and reflections carried out within the "scientific and technical support" department of the TVB resource center.