Abstract EN:

The Tunisian environmental public policies have a direct impact on the rural world, distributing employment and income in areas of weak economic growth. Meanwhile, the state maintains a large number of people in its dependence. The national integration between the urbanised coastline areas and the rural areas of the interior therefore exerts itself through the development of migrations, but also through a severe control originating from the state. The study of these policies in Kroumiria enabled us to disclose the historical role of colonial forestry in shaping a national state which thanks to this inheritance, was able to adopt the international recommendations about sustainability. While in the past the colonial state personified the forest, the authoritarian state of to-day personifies the environment. This thesis describes the manner in which environmental problems are dealt with and the manner in which they justify a social policy aimed at the countryside.