Résumé
Industrial ecology explores the analogical relationships between biological ecosystems and anthropogenic systems, in order to optimize the latter's resource management inspired by the former's mechanisms. A renewed conception of industrial ecology consists in considering it as the building process of a collective territorial knowledge, in its two complementary dimensions: the development of a collective knowledge and the development of the collective through knowledge. It proposes a collaborative construction of a territorial definition, through the sharing and mutualization of information flow, transmitted by the territory and interpreted by actors, leading to a collective decision process.