Lazard J. auteur aut IRD Baruthio A. auteur aut IRD Mathé S. auteur aut IRD Rey Valette H. auteur aut IRD Chia E. auteur aut IRD Aubin J. auteur aut IRD Clement O. auteur aut IRD Morissens P. auteur aut IRD Mikolasek O. auteur aut IRD Legendre Marc auteur aut IRD Levang Patrice auteur aut IRD Blancheton J. P. auteur aut IRD René F. auteur aut IRD text journalArticle fre text/pdf reformatted digital access The new sustainable development data repository requires new analysis grids, in particular for factors accounted for in productive system typologies. This paper, based on the aquaculture example, analyses the diversity in aquaculture systems with respect to sustainable development. Various typologies are obtained by evaluating structural and functional approaches integrating variables related to production and regulation systems and to the territorial insertion of fish farms. Categories have been defined on a scale based on a set of five sites, which are representative of a wider range of aquaculture systems. Use of these categories goes beyond the local typologies and prepares a generic meta-typology classification for the systems. This generic classification is then compared to the views of sustainable development held by the fish farmers working on the various types of farms. specialized aquaculture sustainable development typology 040 098 18 2 199-210 2009 1166-7699 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010046192 10.1684/agr.2009.0297 1166-7699 [F B010046192] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010046192 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers16-02/010046192.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2009-07-24 2017-02-10 fdi:010046192 fre