Public conference as part of the search for a professor in Human Geography

Summary: This course and research project are grounded in critical environmental geography and examine hydrosocial systems in territories highly exposed to global change, particularly European mountain regions and some agricultural territories embedded in long-term political crises. The lecture introduces a theoretical framework of environmental geography that adopts systemic and critical approaches to analyze vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities in multi-risk territories. It focuses on water and agricultural land as interlinked and shared commons, whose multi-use character generates negotiations, power relations, and conflicts between actors. The research project develops this perspective through comparative case studies on resource governance, combining participatory methods, spatial analysis, and critical policy analysis to examine how collective resources are governed, contested, and reconfigured in response to climatic uncertainties and socio-environmental change