Energy transition and sustainable development of wood energy in local short circuits - a geographical look at a path strewn with pitfalls

In this thesis E. Evrard-Marais questions the Grenelle law targeting a 23% share of renewable energies by 2020. The author focuses more specifically on the wood-energy sector announced as an appropriate solution. E. Evrad-Marais warns of the variability of this market depending on the territory. she therefore proposes to follow the economic circuit of this sector as well as the different practices relating to it. The choice to develop this wood-energy sector has led to new recovery techniques for individuals and communities. Competition is therefore taking place between these new players and the protagonists of scavenging who until now participated in the main mode of energy recovery. The economic logic of energy specialists is destabilizing this already highly compromised sector