Jean-Loup Kastler
External scientific collaborator

University of Lausanne
Institute of geography and sustainability
Mouline - Géopolis --
CH-1015 Lausanne

Commons, Water, and Local Democracy

Jean-Loup Kastler studies the historical relationships between local forms of democracy, collective rights, and the management of natural resources. His research focuses in particular on land and water commons, collective practices relating to water, and the ways in which environmental conflicts contribute to the political mobilization of local populations.

This approach combines environmental history, "history from below," political anthropology, and the study of shifts in scale.