Dans le cadre du Séminaire de recherche de l'IGD
There is a geography of the everyday, well away from universities, journals, and conferences. It is all around us, the dizzying collision of anthropogenic assaults on nature and complex patterns of environmental change. Four case studies, situated in ‘marginal places’ in West Africa, East Timor and New Caledonia, illustrate these complexities. They are rarely compared, and general lessons emerge about human ingenuity, development paths, conflict and resistance, and environmental outcomes. It is a scholarly challenge and a professional obligation to understand the political ecology of marginal places, as public attention in Europe is so closely focused on environmental issues.
Le Dr Simon Batterbury est géographe et spécialiste de la gestion des ressources naturelles et des politiques environnementales en Afrique (Burkina Faso, Niger) et dans la zone Asie-Pacifique (Nouvelle-Calédonie, Timor-Leste). Il a obtenu un doctorat à la Clark University (EtatsUnis) en 1997 sur le thème du développement rural au Burkina Faso. Associate Professor à l’Université de Melbourne de 2004 à 2016, il est aujourd’hui Professor of Political Ecology à la Lancaster University (Royaume-Uni), où il dirige un groupe de 8 chercheurs dans ce domaine.