Joint Research Unit
Laboratoire Etude des Structures, des Processus d’Adaptation et des Changements de l’Espace (ESPACE)
- Address :
- Campus Carlone, 98 Bd Edouard Herriot, BP 3209,
06204 Nice Cedex 3 - Email :
- dir-espace@univ-avignon.fr
- On the Internet :
- http://www.umrespace.org
- Additional contact details :
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General information
Affiliated institutions :Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Avignon Université (AU)
Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
Université Côte d'Azur
Reference : UMR7300
Departments : DS 6 : Sciences de l'homme et des humanités
Additional information
Spatial analysis
Urban systems
Environment
Risks
Regional sustainability
Geoprospective
Urban systems
Environment
Risks
Regional sustainability
Geoprospective
Created in 1997, ESPACE is a multi-site Joint Research Unit which associates the CNRS and laboratories from three universities: Aix-Marseille University, University of Avignon and Université Côte d'Azur. The Nice team of ESPACE comes from the Raoul Blanchard Spatial Analysis Laboratory, founded by Jean Miège in 1969 and subsequently associated with CNRS. ESPACE conducts research in geography, environment and planning, within the field of spatial analysis. Its primary area of study concerns space-environment-society interrelationships analyzed from the spatial point of view, that is, investigating how spatial characteristics contribute to the organization of regions, how certain/some systems are hindered, boosted or influenced by particular spatio-temporal circumstances, and how the spatial system responds to the factors that drive change. The ESPACE laboratory belongs to the Theoretical and Quantitative Geography movement, whose research goal is to understand complex systems by means of a set of methods, including Spatial Analysis and modeling. ESPACE is recognized for its innovative fundamental research with practical impacts, carried out in interaction with civil society.