Doctorante en géographie- Chargée de mission

The “SIG Pyrénées” is a socio-economic observatory of the Pyrenees Mountains. It has been gradually established over the last ten years by the Pyrenees Association for Mountain Economics (Assemblée Pyrénéenne d'Economie Montagnarde or APEM), an association created by the different consular structures of the Pyrenees Mountains. We will analyse it in its capacity as a territorial observatory, that is, an instrument used by territorial development stakeholders to produce and share information (socio-economic data) for the purpose of improving the effectiveness of public action (in other words, the quest for a better utilisation of public action and the construction of an action tool). After providing a description of the evolution of French territorial development policies and, more particularly, Pyrenees Mountain policy, we will analyse the role of development agents considered here as decision support professionals, in the establishment and coordination of territorial observatories.