Units

Environmental management - Society and Territories

Person in charge of the Unit : Oui

L'unité de recherche Gestion de l'Environnement, Société et Territoires de la Faculté des sciences

Brussels Centre for Tourism Studies

LIToTeS is integrated in the 'Institut de Gestion de l'Environnement et d'Aménagement du Territoire (IGEAT) of the Faculty of Science'. Through an multidisciplinary and systematic approach the research department analyses interactions that occur between tourist activities and territories. The research works of LIToTeS concentrate on three main lines: 1. The production of tourism territories 2. The development of tourism resources and heritage  3. Stakeholders and tourism planning as well as management processes

Applied geography and geomarketing

Person in charge of the Unit : Oui

The research led by the team focuses on spatial planning and its relations with the economy and regional social structures.  The team also indirectly studies environmental issues through the analysis of landscapes and of regional structures, in urban as well as rural environments.  These analyses are also used for educational and tourism purposes through the collaboration with the Royal Belgian Society of Geography in the production of thematic guides.  The unit also extensively studies industrial and tertiary structures at different scales.  In the field of urban studies, the unit focuses on housing, renovation and rehabilitation policies and their social impacts.  The team also pays particular attention to the issue of development and land use plans at local and regional scales. In addition, the unit produces transport network analysis.  The geomarketing team within the unit works in the field of retail and services geography.  The cell contributes to the understanding of social and economic spaces and of spatial planning through its analysis of the spatial consequences of economic policies regarding retail trading, the hierarchy of retail nodes in the city and the characterization of commercial structures.  Typologies of the Belgian statistical units regarding demographical, socio-economical and landscape characteristics are made on a regular basis.  Theses analyses are used in various studies and applications, including by other services of the university (sociology, public health...) and by private companies.  Finally, over the last several years the unit has developed numerous studies in political and electoral geography.  It also takes part in European networks studying spatial planning.

Projetcs

MEREV

Analysis of circular mobilities between European cities

Hallmark events and tourism

Analyse of social, economic and cultural impacts of hallmark events on urban centres and tourism.

Tourism and urban centres revitalisation

Tourism impacts on urban revitalisation process and relations with socio-spatial structures of the cities