Geographer
Posting
- CIRAD Regional Director for the Mediterranean,
the Middle East and the Balkans countries
INRAE, IAVFF/Agreenium and Muse représentative
- Regional Department for Research and Strategy
- Montpellier
- France
Discipline and activities
- Geography
- Political ecology
- Interface Nature / Society
- Vulnerability
- Adaptation to global changes
Address
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CIRAD
TA 179/04 - Avenue Agropolis
34398 Montpellier Cedex 5
France
Phone/Mail
- Phone: +33 4 67 61 49 47; Mobile: +33 6 45 08 32 11
- E-mail: denis.gautier@cirad.fr
Detailed job description and administrative responsibilities
Senior scientist, hired by CIRAD in 1999, working within a research unit focused on the goods and services provided by tropical dryland ecosystems
Currently: Regional Director for the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Balkan countries and representative for INRAE, IAVFF/Agreenium and MUSE
Useful links
http://mediterranee.cirad.fr
Platform in partnership for reasearch and training SIRMA
Field of competences and area of expertise
Denis Gautier is a geographer with interests in the governance and management of natural and renewable resources in tropical dryland areas. Trained as an agronomist (SupAGro Montpellier), specialized in tropical forestry (ENGREF), he holds a PhD (Université d’Avignon) and a “habilitation à diriger des recherches” (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne) in geography.
Experience in researching
His research interests are the geographical analysis of natural resource management and practices, with a focus on the the rights of access to and use of natural resources and on territorialisation processes, and on the links between ecosystem resilience and the vulnerability of tree products-dependent people, with an emphasis on gender and intersectionnality issues.
Geographic areas of intervention
Drylands; Africa; Sudano-sahelian area; Bamiléké country
Teaching and training activities
- Supervision of 1 PhD
- Supervision of 1 post-doc
Participation in projects and expertise
- RELAX (Promoting resilience in the African rural houseolds: Food systems at a crossroads), funded by Agropolis fundation; leader of the WP on "Outside the farm. Finding sources of diet diversity in markets and nature" (2016-2019)
- SANTE (Agro-ecological transition and food security and nutrition), funded by GloFoodS a INRA/CIRAD metaprogram; coordinator (2017-2019)