ABSTRACT
Environmental protection, conservation of nature, and sustainable development are political processes in which a number of social actors are involved in different ways as stakeholders. They are also geographical dynamics concerning first and foremost territories that are submitted to regulations and restrictions governing the way resources can be used when the environment is protected. As key issues in contemporary human geography, they greatly influence the relations between societies, as well as those between social groups and individuals, and the territories they live in or to which they are related for some reasons (tourism, migration, etc.) and they can engender conflicts between stakeholders with conflicting goals and points of view on resource use.
