Questionnaire for pilot sites Collection of facts and information of pilot sites for building a comparative, transnational typology of alpine territories For project partners: Please fill in the predefined gaps and boxes and try to answer all the questions clearly and completely. Use the predefined boxes and stick to the space limitations. If space isn’t enough, please use the attached document to add more information. The questionnaire will be transferred directly into a kind of factsheet of your pilot site. Therefor please try to give clear information and formulate it well, so that it can be used for presenting your pilot site. If you have questions concerning the filling in, the meaning of a question or anything else, do not hesitate to contact us (iSpace – Dagmar Lahnsteiner,
[email protected], CEREMA – David Caubel,
[email protected]) Name and type of the territory: Pays Horloger : group of the 3 following intermunicipalities: Communauté de communes du Pays de Maîche (43 municipalities), Communauté de Communes du plateau du Russey (17 municipalities), Communauté de communes du Val de Morteau (8 municipalities) Location (political district / region, federal province, country, other relevant position information): The Pays Horloger pilote site is located in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté Region, in Doubs department. It is considered as being a territorial and rural balance territory grouping 3 intermunicipalities. It borders with Switzerland (mainly connected to La Chaux-de-Fonds and Neuchatel, the two majors closer Switzerland cities). The Pays Horloger is composed with five areas characterized by their relief. The succession of valleys (Doubs and Dessoubre, Morteau valley) and plateaus (Maîche-Le Russey, Belleherbe) provides a wide variety of landscapes, authentic atmospheres, and encourages a multitude of activities in all seasons.