Abstract ID: 3.9785 | Accepted as Talk | Talk/Oral | TBA | TBA

The TranStat project focuses on transitions in mountain areas, particularly those linked to the winter sports economy. It aims to better describe the transition processes at work in these areas, providing evidence of their nature as well as their governance. It also aims to support the stakeholders in such areas, particularly decision-makers, in managing these processes, in a context of global change and in a lack of transition reference frameworks. To achieve this, TranStat involves a network of 9 ski resorts, considered as Living Labs, located in 5 European countries. The French resort of St-Pierre-de-Chartreuse/Le Planolet, close to the Grenoble, Chambéry and Voiron urban areas in the French Alps, is one of the Living Labs of TranStat. This medium-sized ski resort, founded at the beginning of the 20th century on the initiative of a group of local associations, has enjoyed a steady development dynamic, with heavy investment in ski lifts, including a gondola, at the turn of the 1980s. More recently, the 2010s were marked by increasing deficits, and in 2020, in the midst of the Covid period, a collective reflection was launched on the future of the resort. It is this ongoing reflection that we propose to analyze. Through this analysis, deployed at different geographical scales (ski area, resort and municipality), we will present the characterization of an evolutive path for the territory, describing how the collective approach that has recently been put in place is a decisive step in the path, in terms of actors involved and in terms of articulation between shared short- and long-term objectives (visions). The experience of St Pierre-de-Chartreuse may serve to highlight the diversity of transition trajectories in ski resort territories.