Intérêts

Gouvernance régionale de l’environnement, coopération transfrontalière en régions de montagne et en bassins versants, développement durable, analyse de réseaux sociaux, inter-/transdisciplinarité

Axes de recherche

Il poursuit actuellement des analyses portant sur la gouvernance régionale comme manifestation d’une différenciation caractérisant la modernité.

As an internationally recognized expert in regional environmental governance, he has received extensive and diverse funding for carrying out empirical research (especially on mountain regions), organizing international conferences (e.g. www.reg-observatory.org), and building institutional capacities of scientific partners (e.g. caucasus-mt.net). He currently leads research on regional governance from the perspective of differentiation under modernity.

Enseignements

• T206054 Géographie politique : territoires, frontières, pouvoir / Political Geography: Territories, Borders, Power, Bachelor en géographie et environnement et autres bachelors SDS
• 14E206 FND Société et durabilité, Master en sciences de l’environnement
• T406067 Territoires et Frontières, Maîtrise en géographie politique et culturelle et autres masters SDS
• T406003 Sustainable Development and political agendas + bootcamp, Master of Science in Innovation, Human Development and Sustainability
• "Agenda 2030 et la Grande transformation en vue d'undéveloppement durable" (module du CAS "Développement durable : horizon 2030")¨
• "Travail d’intégration" (module du CAS "Développement durable : horizon 2030")

Projets terminés

• Closing the Loop: Enhancing Interdisciplinarity in Research and Teaching, Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
• EE-REG - Comparing Regional Environmental Governance in East Asia and Europe, Swiss National Science Foundation
• ERMI - European Regional Mountain Initiatives: From Pyrenees to Caucasus, Swiss National Science Foundation
• Mountlennium - Reaching Millennium Development Goals through Regional Mountain Governance, Swiss Network for International Studies
• REGov - Regional Environmental Governance: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Theoretical Perspectives, Comparative Designs", Swiss National Science Foundation and Swiss Network for International Studies
• Sub-regional environmental governance and transboundary conservation dynamics in Vietnam and neighbouring countries, funded by Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, Bilateral research collaboration with Asia 2017-2020
• Supporting Sustainable Mountain Development in the Caucasus (Sustainable Caucasus) (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2015-2018)
• Swiss Platform for Sustainable Development Research (funded by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, CreST – Creating spaces for transdisciplinary learning
• SWISS-SDR - Swiss Platform for Sustainable Development Research

Projets en cours

• Accelerating Climate Action - Global comparison of regional mountain governance, in partnership with the Mountain Research Initiative, funded by UN Environment
• At risk: Understanding contemporary environmental civil society challenges, funded by the Fondation Ernest Boninchi
• Enabling Global Change Research onMountains: The Mountain Research Initiative Coordination Office"(Académie suisse des sciences naturelles)
• Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)in Higher Education (UNIGE-Yonsei Joint Seed Funding 2019)
• Facilitating evidence-based policy recommendations for states to improve the protection of environmental civil society and environmental defenders, funded by the Geneva Science-Policy Interface
• Jinx!, funded by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and td-net (Programme U Change)
• PHUSICOS: 'According to nature' - solutions to reduce risk in mountain landscapes, funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020)
• Reorient: Regional Orders in International Environmental Politics (SNSF Professorship, 2015-2019)
• Regional Environmental Governance: A global assessment (REG-Data)
• Strengthening Climate change adaptation capacities in the South Caucasus, in partnership with Sustainable Caucasus, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Publications