Ruppert VIMAL

CNRS Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
Maison de la Recherche de l'Université Jean Jaurès 5, Allées A. Machado - 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 1
Office
C228
Phone
05 61 50 36 28
Email
ruppert.vimal@univ-tlse2.fr
Personal Website
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ruppert-Vimal

Research topics

In order to face the ecological crisis, we need to move beyond the nature/culture divide of modern societies. My research aims at producing empirical knowledge based on fieldwork, to rethink our relation to earth and to other livings. I am particularly interested in the spatial dimension of biodiversity issues following an interdisciplinary approach. I am convinced that we cannot describe the world, without asking our-self how we know about it. Mixing ecology, geography and sciences studies, I build my academic career through a symmetrical approach, considering that to better understand biodiversity issues, we simultaneously need to better understand how we make science about them. Thus, the geographical space I study is not only the one of the interactions between humans and non humans, but as well the one of the relationship between science and society.


My research activities can be grouped into three main areas:
  • developing spatial indicators for assessing and planning biodiversity conservation,
  • understanding the challenges of coexistence between humans and non-humans,
  • analyzing the construction and dissemination of scientific knowledge related to biodiversity issues. Three axes through which I am interested in protected areas and their management strategies, the conflicts associated with the return of predators in France and especially bears in the Pyrenees, the last European old growth forests, the place of naturalist experts or the role of new technologies in biodiversity conservation.

     
I am also involved in teaching activities notably through the coordination of a seminar for students in anthropology and ecology dealing with interdisciplinarity, as well as mediation and knowledge dissemination projects directly related to my research projects.
 


My research activities can be grouped into three main areas:
  • developing spatial indicators for assessing and planning biodiversity conservation,
  • understanding the challenges of coexistence between humans and non-humans,
  • analyzing the construction and dissemination of scientific knowledge related to biodiversity issues. Three axes through which I am interested in protected areas and their management strategies, the conflicts associated with the return of predators in France and especially bears in the Pyrenees, the last European old growth forests, the place of naturalist experts or the role of new technologies in biodiversity conservation.

     
I am also involved in teaching activities notably through the coordination of a seminar for students in anthropology and ecology dealing with interdisciplinarity, as well as mediation and knowledge dissemination projects directly related to my research projects.
 


 

Parcours/Career

  • Since 2018 : Researcher (Chargé de recherche), section 39 Espace, Territoires et Sociétés of the CNRS, at GEODE UMR5602 (France)
  • 2016-2018 : Guest researcher at the German Center For Integrative Biodiversity Research (Germany)
  • 2013-2016 : Post-doctorant at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany)
  • 2010-2011 : Post-doctorant at the Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive (France)
  • 2007-2010 : PhD in Life and Environmental Sciences at the Université Montpellier 2 (France)
 

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Publications extraites de HAL affiliées à Geode : Géographie de l'environnement