Debarbieux Bernard

Bernard Debarbieux is professor of cultural and political geography and urban and regional planning at the University of Geneva. He joined the University staff in 2001. He works both at the Department of geography and at the Institute for environmental sciences. Before that, he taught in Grenoble (France), New York, Montreal and Paris.

As a researcher, he is specialized in the production of geographical knowledge and imagination, planning, environmental governance and political and collective territorialities.

During the early 2000’s, he led a forecast research group on emerging forms of territoriality and representations (DATAR, Paris). His main objects of research are the mountain regions at a national, regional and global scale, and more generally regional environmental governance.