The Sustainable Development & Territories association emerged from an informal collective created in 1999 and structured as an association in 2011. It focuses on sustainable development issues related to the territory, using an interdisciplinary approach (economics, geography, sociology, political science, etc.).
Its main activities are supporting the publication of the DD&T journal, organizing scientific events, and, more generally, fostering dialogue between the world of research and socio-economic stakeholders in the territories. The association's members are mainly from numerous research laboratories in metropolitan France, but the association also has members working internationally and in public institutions.