Research projects

	Mountain COMmons : questioning past and present Commons to address territorial development issues in MOUNTain areas (ComMount) In the context of global change, mountains are facing important economic, social and environmental issues. Contempora... More...	2023-2027
	Digital skills and cross-domain entrepreneurship for societal challenges - Cooperation partnerships in higher education \| ERASMUS+ 2021-2023 Project objectives The project has set out three principal objectives: (i) to cultivate innova... More...	2021-2023
	Ethnography of the Rearrangements of Sensitive, Ritualized and Aesthetic Relationships with the High Alpine Mountains As a result of global warming, glaciers retreat is accelerating and rocks collapses are multiplying in the high mount... More...	2021-2022
	Winter sports resorts and climate change. An understanding of obsolescence processes, using environmental history methods The research studies the trajectory of winter sports resorts built at high altitudes, with a particular interest in t... More...	2021-2024
	Revisiting the commons in the light of current and future territorial challenges (COMETE) The objective of the COMETE project (Les COMmuns à l'aune des Enjeux TErritoriaux actuels et futurs) is to bring tog... More...	2021-2022
	Multifunctionality of Alpine hydropower infrastructures The project "Multifunctionality of Alpine hydropower infrastructures" was launched in October 2020, as a post... More...	2020-2025
	ValPar.CH – Values of the ecological infrastructure in Swiss parks Commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), the interdisciplinary research team in charge of... More...	2020-2024
	Diversifying the purposes of dam reservoirs? Understanding the emergence and implementation of dam reservoirs' "multifunctionality" in Switzerland Since September 2020, we have been developing a research project on the diversification of the purposes of dam reserv... More...	2020-2023
	Acclimatization in the urban and territorial project: anticipating the freshness grid in a context of climate change. The case of the Rhone Valley project This research project is devoted to the theme of acclimatization in the urban and territorial project in t... More...	2020-2020
	Mountain commons in the face of global change: analysing the past to understand present changes (MOUN) In recent years, new self-managed collective structures have developed in mountain areas around the preservation or d... More...	2020-2021
	Geomorphological landscapes as a tourist resource Geomorphological landscapes - witnesses of the history and evolution of the surface of our planet, e... More...	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... More...	2019-2023
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	Assessing Jessour in South-East Tunisia This research project is led in partnership with the "Laboratoire de Cartographie Géomorphologique des Milieux, des ... More...	2016 >
	Who governs water-related risks in large metropolis? Characterizing governance patterns of drought in Sao Paulo. Since the 1970s, Sao Paulo Metropolis experienced several water shortage episodes. Regional measures were taken regardin... More...	2016-2016
	IES - Indicators and rivers' health situation Periodic water stress in the rivers of the canton of Vaud during the summer season questions their ecological state and ... More...	2015-2016
	Water uses monitoring in alpine territories In Alpine regions, water resources data are more and more commonly created and monitored. However, direct, quantitati... More...	2013-2018
	ICCARE-Vaud - Impacts of climatic and anthropogenic changes on the water resources of the Vaud canton [2013-2014] The aim of this project is to assess the complex relationships between climate, anthropogenic pressures and water resour... More...	2013-2014
	Integrated Water Resources Management in Switzerland: A Reflexive Analysis More...	2013-2014
	ESPPACE project: Evaluation and monitoring for participatory processes in river management The success of a river management project is assessed with the achievement of pre-established objectives; they include s... More...	2013-2016
	Integrated Water Resources Management in federal countries The aim of this research is to understand how the Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) is implemented in federal ... More...	2012-2017
	Cartography and process geomorphology of torrential systems of Hérens Valley (Suisse) Within the framework of a convention with the Fondation pour la Maison des Alpes and the Commune of Evolène, the Instit... More...	2010-2013
	MontanAqua – Approaching water stress in the Alps. Water management options in the Crans-Montana-Sierre Region (Valais) The project MontanAqua is carried out within the framework of the National research program NRP 61 "Sustainable water ma... More...	2010-2013
	Maps to fight floods. Method developed in Morocco This PhD thesis is part of the project "Flood risk management in two Moroccan watersheds: Fez and Beni Mellal" and focus... More...	2009-2013
	Hydrogeomorphology and palaeoenvironment in the upstream of Lake Geneva Rhône River valley Contrairement au tronçon français, les paléoenvironnements de la vallée du Rhône à l'amont du lac Léman sont e... More...	2009 >
	Flood risk management in two Moroccan watersheds: Fès and Beni Mellal The project concerns two Moroccan watersheds in urbanised areas: Fès and Beni Mellal. The research is carried out throu... More...	2009-2013
	Glacial heritage of Chablais region Within the framework of Interreg IVa project "1, 2, 3 Chablais", the Institute of Geography of Lausanne University carri... More...	2009-2012
	Artificial snowmaking and water resources in mid-altitude mountain areas. The case of Chablais (France, Switzerland) Artificial snowmaking has rapidly developed during the last years in the Alps. The production of artificial snow necessi... More...	2008-2012
	Distribution and structure of permafrost in alpine talus slopes According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Earth's temperatures should increase from 1.8°C to 4... More...	2008-2011
	Geotourist promotion of Tsanfleuron-Sanetsch region This project aimed at developing several geotourist products for the promotion of Tsanfleuron glacio-karstic area (Valai... More...	2007-2008
	Evolution of the wineyard landscapes in Valais Study of the evolution of vineyards in Valais between 1880 and 2006 from historical map analysis. More...	2007-2008
	Inventory of Swiss geosites The Geographical Institute of Lausanne University participates to the revision of the Inventory of Swiss geosites. This ... More...	2006 >
	Impacts of floods in Switzerland The project, realised in two phases, between 2004 and 2008, by a group of geographers of the universities of Geneva, ... More...	2004-2008
	Reconstitution of fluvial landscapes of the Swiss Rhone river Research on the palaeolandscpes of the Swiss Rhone river valley is carried out under the umbrella of the Association "M�... More...	2002 >
	Assessment and inventories of geomorphosites Geomorphosites are landforms with a heritage value, both for scientific (as testimonies of Earth history) and more gener... More...	2001 >
	Institutional water management in Switzerland Research on institutional management of water resources follows Emmanuel Reynard's PhD thesis (2000). Three main domains... More...	2000 >
	The Valais water channels (bisses) The "bisses" of Valais are water transportation channels existing since the Middle Age. They constitute a network more t... More...	1994 >
	Water management in mountain tourist resorts Emmanuel Reynard's PhD thesis (2000) studied water management in two mountain tourist resorts: Nendaz and Crans-Montana ... More...	1992-1999