Pierre Frankhauser et Claudia Yamu: Winners of the Breheny Prize The editors of Environment and Planning B would like to announce that the Michael Breheny prize for the best paper published in 2015 has been awarded to Claudi Yamu and Pierre Frankhauser for their paper ‘Spatial accessibility to amenities, natural areas and urban green spaces: using a multiscale, multifractal simulation model for managing urban sprawl’ which was published in the journal in November 2015, vol. 42, no. 6,...

The talk will take place at 14h on monday the 21th november at the ThéMA lab building (3rd floor building D).   Rémi Lemoy Researcher (Post-doc) at the University of Luxembourg Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Remi_Lemoy   Abstract: In this work we study the profile of land use and population density in European cities with respect to the distance to the city centre. We use the GMES Urban Atlas database, providing a precise description of land use at 5m...

The defense will take place at the "Salle du Conseil de l’UFR Droit, au rez-de-chaussée du Bâtiment Droit-Lettres de l’Université de Bourgogne" (4 boulevard Gabriel, 21000 DIJON). This work was directed by Thomas Thévenin.   Defense jury Corinne BLANQUART, Research Director at the IFSTTAR, Anne BRETAGNOLLE, Professor at the University Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Valérie FACCHINETTI-MANNONE, Associate Professor at the University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Jordi MARTI-HENNEBERG,...

The defense will take place at UFR SLHSn rue Chifflet at Besançon on December the 1st 2016 at 14H30. This work was co-directed by Jean-Christophe Foltête and Céline Clauzel.   Defense jury Marc ANTROP, Professor at the University of Gand, Jacques BAUDRY, Research Director at the INRA, Céline CLAUZEL, Associate Professor at the University Paris-Diderot, Marianne COHEN, Professor at the University Paris-Sorbonne, Jean-Christophe FOLTÊTE, Professor at the University of...

The defense will take place at "Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Dijon" (6 esplanade Erasme, 21000 DIJON). This work was co-directed by Thomas Thévenin and Nadège Martiny.   Defense jury BADARIOTTI Dominique, Professor at the University of Strasbourg JOSSELIN Didier, Research Director at the CNRS, ESPACE MARILLEAU Nicolas, Research Engineer at the IRD-UMMISCO, UPMC MARTINY Nadège, Associate Professor at the University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté SANDERS Lena, Research Director...

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Residential Choice in its Social Context   This book proposes, from a cross-disciplinary perspective, an original reading of current work on residential choice and the decisions associated with it. Geographers, social-psychologists, economists, sociologists, neurologists and linguists have worked together in the context of collective research into evaluation, choice and decision-making in the use of urban and periurban spaces. A synthetic outlook has...

The defense will take place at the Grand Salon, 18 rue Chifflet, Besançon down town. This work was co-directed by Serge Ormaux and Jacques Fontaine.

The defense will take place at the thesis room of the "Maison des Sciences de l’Homme" at the University of Burgundy, 14:30, 6 Esplanade Erasme at Dijon.

Thomas Buhler is invited under the initiative of laboratory Chôros and “PostCarWorld” research project.http://postcarworld.epfl.ch/page-113202-en.html  

We have the pleasure to inform you that the new version of Graphab software (version 2.0) is available. This version can be downloaded from https://sourcesup.renater.fr/graphab/ Graphab is a software application for modeling ecological networks using landscape graphs. Graphab 2.0 provides new features: · Grouping patches in meta-patches · Graph clustering by modularity index · Removing patches whose capacity is too low · Circuit theory on the graph : CF metric and distance matrix ·...