What is a Resource in a Rural Area?
In the past, many studies have evoked the different types of resources, but tended to refer to resources as segments. In this context, is there really anything to be gained by reviving a wider approach to the function of resources in rural environments? To strengthen our stance on this question, we have focussed the first part of our study on the resources harnessed to promote tourist activity in Rocamadour. The transformations recorded in the second part of our study are an invitation to return to our theoretical reflections about different definitions of resources, including this opportunity to join them together in order to account better for the interactions observed on the ground, particularly the conjunction of heterogeneous elements mobilized to build resources, and the importance of the social changes that guide the vectors of projects related to resource development.