An article published in Nature Scientific Reports: Huge decrease of frost frequency in the Mont-Blanc Massif under climate change   Benjamin Pohl, Daniel Joly, Julien Pergaud, Jean-François Buonchristiani, Paul Soare & Alexandre Berger, Nature Scientific reports volume 9, Article number : 4919 (2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41398-5#Abs1                             This study co-signed by 5 members of the laboratory...

PixScape software, devoted to the modelling of landscape visibility, is published in the journal “Transactions in GIS” PixScape software proposes to integrate a large set of functions for modeling landscape visibility while remaining interfaced with GIS software. This software can be used to perform a complete landscape assessment by computing a wide range of original landscape metrics. It performs tangential analysis in addition to viewshed analysis, which can produce more realistic outcomes. Because landscape visibility analysis over large areas implies significant computation time, the...

The defense will take place at the "Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de l'Environnement Claude Nicolas Ledoux", salle 4 (1 rue Charles Nodier). This work was directed by Pierre Frankhauser. Defense jury Pierre Frankhauser, Professor at the University of Franche-Comté  Gabriel Dupuy, Emeritus Professor at the University Paris I Geoffrey Caruso, Professor at the University of Luxembourg Dominique Mignot, Scientific Director of IFSTTAR Dominique Peeters, Emeritus Professor at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Igor Agbossou, Lecturer at the University of...

Vincent Hély is defending his PhD thesis "Synthetic assessment of territorial sustainability. Strengths and weaknesses of modeling in the decision-making process" on November 22th 2017 in Besançon. The defense will take place at the "Salon Préclin" (18, rue Chifflet, UFR SLHS). This work was directed by Jean-Philippe Antoni. Defense jury Alain L'HOSTIS, Researcher at the French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (Ifsttar) Jean-Pierre NICOLAS, Researcher at the LAET / ENTPE University of Lyon Pierre FRANKHAUSER, Professor at the...

Fractalopolis, the multifractal urban planning model, now published in the journal “Computers, Environment and Urban Systems” A fifteen pages article synthesizes the planning premises that inspired applying the concept to the Grand Besançon agglomeration, thus outlining the second step of applying fractal models for urban and regional purposes. Fractalopolis allows conceiving development plans on an urban and regional scale, based on five basic principles: a hierarchized polycentric urban development; a development linked to transportation axes; a locally concentrated development of...

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, 1054–1078.   Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design Announcement

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 resolution in the 300 major European urban areas (more than 100.000 inhabitants). We combine this...

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, Professor at the University of Lleida, Spain Thomas THEVENIN, Professor at the University of...

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 Franche-Comté, Thomas HOUET, Associate researcher at the CNRS,   Abstract Landscape is both a backdrop to...

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 at the CNRS, Géographie-Cités THEVENIN Thomas, Professor at the University of...