Territorial conflicts and citizens mobilization. Some reflections about the current forms of territorial governance

Even if the governance paradigm bets for a new opening scene and a major pluralism during the elaboration and implementation of the public policies, the proliferation of the conflicts related with the use and management of the territory shows the lack of enough Channels of implication and participation of the citizenship during the process of planning. The article proposes to analyse some of the new problems of the current forms of territorial governance through the study of the causes both of the increase of territorial conflicts and the rising of social mobilization starring such conflicts.