Territorial and Rural Balance Poles (PETRs) are tools for cooperation between public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation (EPCIs) in areas outside metropolitan France. They were created by French law on January 27, 2014. The dataset is provided by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and was last updated on January 29, 2021.
Use Cases
- Analyze inter-municipal cooperation structures based on the concept of Territorial and Rural Balance Poles.
- Map the geographic distribution of PETRs based on the dataset's focus on the Haut-Rhin department.
- Study the implementation of the 2014 French law on territorial planning based on the dataset's legal foundation.
- Compare rural and non-rural cooperation poles based on the description of PETRs serving areas outside metropolitan France.
Strengths
- Dataset has a clear legal foundation, established by law on January 27, 2014.
- Provided by a specific French governmental organization, the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières.
- Last update date is explicitly recorded as January 29, 2021.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Freshness
- Last updated 2021-01-29 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Haut-Rhin department, France