ABSTRACT

Territory is the living environment of all human activities, however diversified and contradictory they might be. Therefore, the strategies and policies established for

territorial management are often the source of debate and conflict. This difficulty in reconciling diverging interests quickly led land planners to more and more consider participatory processes as part of their work. If collaborative decision-making is increasingly appearing to be a precondition for successful planning [1,2], then information sharing is a precondition for collaborative decision-making [3]. Furthermore, because a decision is the end result of a process, the level of participation and information sharing at the different stages of that process must also have a strong influence on the degree to which the parties involved agree on the decision that is adopted [3].