Abstract
This paper considers the relations between cities and countrysides by focusing on the managing of the evolution of agriculturalwasteland through hunting in municipalities located on the fringes of urban agglomerations. This practice of rural origin is used to regulatewild boar populations, the growth and wandering of which near suburban housing estates causes damage to agricultural plots. Thepractice of hunting as a regulatory is confronted with the spatial and social compartmentalization of peri-urban territories. From a casestudy located in the low plain of Roussillon, the analysis shows that the forms and dynamics of peri-urban areas lead to the formation of alowly operational hunting territory because the strategies of local stakeholders dissociate the main parameters of local space managementand take little account of agricultural and food issues.