Center for territorial developement studies and environment (CEDETE)

 The CEDETE laboratory is developing a spatialized approach of the sustainable development of the territories, in coherence with the Masters in geography, land planning, environment and development (GAED). The researchers in geography (physical, human, social) and in land planning are associated with fellows in sociology and psychosociology. Two main thematics are covered: the water lands territories – limnology, lakes and ponds, hydrosystems – considered from a physical, human and social perspective (development, governance) and research on the sustainable development of the territories, in urban and rural context, from the city centers to the periurban areas and above, articulating the concern related to the ecological and to the energy transition, to the valorization of natural and cultural heritage and resources. Local and territorial development is also considered in terms of local cooperation and solidarity.
Although the research conducted in the CEDETE laboratory uses GIS, geomatics, remote sensing observations and bigdata, qualitative methodologies and sociological surveys are also practiced. 

The scientific concern on the sustainable development of the territories is tackled in different geographical areas (France and Europe, Russia, Africa, China) where the notions of transitions and emergence are addressed. Beyond this international openness, the laboratory seeks to address local and regional development and land planning concern in Centre Val de Loire (France), in order to propose tools for decision-making and for participatory land-planning.

Research topics: 

The first relates to water territories, limnosystems, hydrosystems and wetlands, in the context of adaptation to socio-environmental change. Water bodies, lakes and ponds, hydrosystems and wetlands are considered from a physical, environmental, human and social (development, governance) perspective.

The second deals with the dynamics of sustainable local/territorial development of societies and territories in the context of socio-environmental transitions. It interweaves different scales of analysis, on issues relating to the ecological and energy transition, the enhancement of heritage, natural and cultural resources, sustainable rural and urban development, including those linked to sports and leisure practices, right through to social and solidarity-based approaches to local development.