This book is the first collection published in French which intends to compare different civil societies of Southeast Asia. On the basis of first-hand data, it analyzes the impact of inherited cultural frameworks, including social structures highly hierarchical, on political conceptions, and the current configuration of local public spheres.

The notion of social acceptance is omnipresent in spatial planning policies. Impact assessments, participative policies, good governance practices or the social sustainability of planning projects implicitly reveal the importance of such a concern. This book aims at bringing to the light the acceptability criteria of spatial development projects.