University of Lausanne
Institute of geography and sustainability
Mouline - Géopolis 3516
CH-1015 Lausanne
Research projects
 | Social resilience in the Sundarbans Delta: Eliciting Needs-based Grassroots Action through Cross-Group Engagement (ENGAGE) The project seeks to enhance social resilience together with inhabitants of the Sundarbans in India and Bangladesh wh... | 2023-2026 |
 | Transformation of waste management practices and policies in South Asia during and after the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that municipal solid waste management is not only one of the most pressing environmen... | 2022-2026 |
 | Knowledge2Action in South Asia: Environmental Sustainability and Social Well-being The Cluster of Cooperation in the Global South (CLOC) "Knowledge2Action in South Asia" represents a regional hub to p... | 2019-2024 |
 | FluidGov - Towards a “fluid” governance: hydrosocial analysis of flood paradigms and management practices in Rhone and Ganges basins (India, France and Switzerland) Floods are land-use- and climate-related hazards posing important environmental, social and economic challenges. They... | 2019-2023 |
| Challenges of municipal solid waste management: Learning from post-crisis governance initiatives in South Asia The South Asian region, home to nearly one quarter of the world's population, is witnessing the highest regional wast... | 2018-2020 | |
| Integrated Water Resources Management in Switzerland: A Reflexive Analysis More... | 2013-2014 | |
| BaSES (Learning and application of basic knowledge in economic and social sciences) The “Development studies” option of the MSc. in geography has shown two main pedagogical needs, linked to the studen... More... | 2013-2013 | |
 | Small cities, urban environments and governance in India While there is a growing body of research on the dynamics of environmental change, urbanisation and governance in Ind... | 2012-2015 |
| Environmental Change, Governance and Politics in Small Cities in Kerala, India The highly "rurbanized" south Indian state of Kerala has often been understood as a "model" of development due to a vari... More... | 2011-2011 | |
| Environmental Change, Governance and Politics in Small North Indian Cities Small and medium cities in India and elsewhere in the developing world have recently experienced a rapid demographic gro... More... | 2011-2011 | |
| Periurban land, power struggles and decentralization at the margin of the city in Niamey/Niger This PhD thesis, completed in november 2016, focused on governance of urban land issues in the context of both the polit... More... | 2010-2016 | |
| Urban water and governmentality in Switzerland (1850-2010) Urban water is manipulated and inserted into the socio-economic structure of the city in order to constitute the hydro-s... More... | 2010-2015 |