Land-Use Conflicts and Administrative Law Litigation. The Case of the Ile-de-France Area

The article provides an analysis of land-use conflicts extract from the rulings of French Administrative Courts from 1981 to 2005. It focuses on Paris's suburb, where the urbanization process & the diversity of land-use require a deeper comprehension of the problem. Our results show that the land-use conflict's evolution is correlated with the urbanization process. They also detect a coupling phenomenon between conflict's type & territory's parameters: urbanism disputes often arise in wealthy municipalities, whereas oppositions to public infrastructure have particularly risen in strongly urbanizing towns. Classified industrial facility's nuisances have been found in unfortunate municipalities. Tables, Figures, References. Adapted from the source document.