Global ecological changes are deeply challenging the practices, methods and conceptual frameworks of territorial development. This article is primarily theoretical in nature. Its aim is to revisit the notion of territorial resource as a way of thinking about fair socio-ecological transitions. The paper reviews the evolution of the notion. It notes its limitations and ambiguities for thinking about fair and local socio-ecological transitions, and suggests linking it with approaches to environmental justice and relational ontology. Finally, a new regime for specifying territorial resources is identified, highlighting new territorial arrangements between humans and non-humans and the processes of translocal diffusion. The article aims to enrich the theoretical thought about sustainable local transitions.

Global ecological changes are deeply challenging the practices, methods and conceptual frameworks of territorial development. This article is primarily theoretical in nature. Its aim is to revisit the notion of territorial resource as a way of thinking about fair socio-ecological transitions. The paper reviews the evolution of the notion. It notes its limitations and ambiguities for thinking about fair and local socio-ecological transitions, and suggests linking it with approaches to environmental justice and relational ontology. Finally, a new regime for specifying territorial resources is identified, highlighting new territorial arrangements between humans and non-humans and the processes of translocal diffusion. The article aims to enrich the theoretical thought about sustainable local transitions.