Rezoning of the Terres Agricoles d’Espérance in Quebec: An Agri-Food and Ecological Issue
Using tools from the sociology of justification (Boltanski et Thévenot)), this study demonstrates how the participatory and deliberative revision of the Quebec land use planning and development scheme may cause to reconsider social expectations towards agriculture that support more reasonable or responsible practices, but may also reflect rising ecological concerns that establish new ways of valuing nature as common good.