GEOGRAPHY · MOUNTAINS · HABITABILITY
Understanding the processes that transform mountain habitability
My research programme examines how climate and environmental change are reshaping the habitability of mountain regions. Focusing on tourism and outdoor recreation, it investigates transformations in practices, visitor flows and relationships with mountain environments, while also analysing the adaptive capacities and trajectories of tourism stakeholders and territories. Conducted primarily in the Alps and the Pyrenees, this work connects individual perceptions and behaviours with broader territorial transformations. Environmental and climate justice provide a cross-cutting perspective, highlighting inequalities in exposure, access, decision-making and adaptive capacity that shape changing mountain futures.
Bringing together geography, management sciences and ecology to understand tourism adaptation to climate change and biodiversity loss.
A cooperation project between the UTOPI – UMR CNRS 5311 laboratory, Toulouse School of Management Research (TSM-R) and the Centre for Research on Biodiversity and the Environment (CRBE). Supported by the TIRIS Scaling-Up Science Program.
TIRIS project presentation ↗A transdisciplinary approach to water use in eastern Pyrenean refuges in the context of climate change.
Cooperation with the GEODE laboratory. Supported as part of the TIRIS Science and Society – Co-Research with Society programme.
Studying visitation practices at cool sites and their management in protected areas.
Collaboration with the GEODE laboratory and the Pyrenees and Cévennes national parks. Support: ZA PYGAR – Zone Atelier Pyrénées-Garonne.
Linking climate and tourist visitation to anticipate changing flows in protected natural areas.
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań — Poland · Munich University of Applied Sciences — Germany · BOKU — Austria · University of Innsbruck — Austria
Periods indicated in the institutional project directory.
Transformations of a tourism activity exposed to glacier melt.
UNIL project page ↗Understanding how glacier destinations, their landscapes and uses are evolving.
UNIL project page ↗Perceptions of climate change, information practices and adaptation among mountaineers. Project coordination at UNIL.
UNIL project page ↗The links between tourism vulnerability, adaptation and reducing its climate impact.
UNIL project page ↗