.The aim of the "Subsurface Resources in Tension" conference is to bring together and bring together the various communities that often work in isolation on the issues of heritage preservation, tourism and the development of mountain areas, without considering the possible intersections between these issues: does the promotion of tourism or the identification of cultural and/or environmental heritage make it possible to avoid the development of extractive activities? Does the development of extractive activities exclude tourism? Do areas without a tourism or heritage dimension welcome the arrival of extractive activities? Can extractive activities and heritage be mutually legitimate (compensation, traditional activities)?

The aim is to combine thematic and disciplinary approaches to the study of mountain areas faced with the implementation of extractive processes (past, present and future) from the geological, geographical, historical, sociological, legal, anthropological, economic and environmental points of view, putting into perspective the role assigned to and imagined in mountain areas in both the North and South in terms of territorial development, transformation and conversion of these areas.

The "Underground resources in tension" conference is therefore intended above all as a forum for discussion on the added value of interdisciplinarity for understanding the dynamics of territorial development, territorialities, imaginations and attachments to mountain territories, as well as conflicts and controversies in defence of these territories.

The aims of the conference are to

• to encourage discussions that break down the barriers between disciplines and highlight the added value of interdisciplinarity
• to compare the experiences of mountain areas in the North and South in which extractive activities have ceased, are in operation or are being developed
• to question the return of extractive activities to mountain areas in the North in the light of the rationale for protecting mountain areas
•  to analyse the dialogue between mountain areas in the south and north in terms of the imaginary development and protection of these areas
•  to integrate the notion of transition in these territories, taking into account the notions of heritage and socio-environmental trajectories.
•  to structure an interdisciplinary, national and international community, with the aim of setting up joint research projects and being able to respond in a grouped fashion to calls for projects.

We hope to welcome around a hundred participants of all nationalities, mainly from the academic world (lecturers, researchers, etc.).