Resources and regional development, what issues?

Based on the results of empirical and conceptual research, the paper is about the relation between resource and development at a regional scale and from the point of view of regional policy. The question of the resource refers to a multitude of objects and situations. May one think of resources like oil, forest, ore, know-how, artefacts, landscape, and appears problems as various as scarcity, overexploitation, maintenance, development, conservation, revalorization, etc. This paper suggests however, that four configurations emerge from this diversity; each referring to different forms of coordination and anchoring and thus to specific stakes for the regions concerned.