Territorial Observation. Participative Territorial Governance, Planning of Social-ecological Innovation

The territorial observation allows to overcome the production of indicators and enables the actors of a territory to be really involved in determining its needs, in the actuation of concrete shared initiatives and in their evaluation. In this context, it is necessary: a) to develop best practices for the use of tools of observation, in order to evaluate the general impact on social and supportive economy and on the improvement of the collective life; b) to support - through territorial governance - the evolution of individual and social behaviours, boosting the innovation in the context of social-ecological programmes of transition, suitable for the specificity of each territory. Then general goal of this volume is to rethinking the role of human activity in society, connecting the individual responsibility to the concerted activities of cooperation.