Jean Paul Metailie - Research Programmes

Jean Paul METAILIE

CNRS Research Director (DR1), Emeritus
 
  • Email: jean-paul.metailie@univ-tlse2.fr
 
  • Partner in the OPEN2PRESERVE programme “Modelo de gestión sostenible para la preservación de espacios abiertos de montaña”. Interreg SUDOE, 2018–2021.
  • Participation in the programme “Les savanes du littoral sous le vent à La Réunion. Histoire et dynamiques, perceptions et pratiques, gestion et médiation”. Dir. S. Briffaud. PASSAGES – UMR 5319 CNRS; CREGUR – Centre de Recherche et d’Études en Géographie, University of La Réunion; GEODE – UMR 5602. Since 2015. Conservatoire du littoral.
  • Participation in the OHM EEDD programme “Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development” (coord. M.P. Julien) (since 2015).
  • “OPSA” program (coord. J.P. Métailié): “The Smell of Stones and the Sound of Trees”: for the experimentation of a blind sensory approach to mountain landscapes. PEPS INEE 2016. (GEODE‑UMR 5602, CLEE‑UMR 5263, DYNAFOR‑UMR INRA 1201, IRIT‑UMR 5505)
  • “ABIES” program (coord. J.P. Métailié): Historical dynamics of fir in the charcoal‑burned forests of Vicdessos. OHM Haut Vicdessos (2015–2018)
  • Participation in the OHM EEDD programme “Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development” (coord. M.P. Julien) (2015–2018)
  • Programme “Evaluation of the functioning of the prescribed‑burning unit and burning practices in the Pyrénées‑Orientales” (coord. J.P. Métailié) CFM‑DDTM 66 (2015–2016)
  • “History and palaeoecology of the silver fir of the Ste Croix Volvestre forest.” Within the project: Genetic characterisation and origin of the silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) of Ste Croix Volvestre (Ariège) and of the Pyrenean massif. Roulier E., Gonin P., Sadjak G. (coord.) (2009–2014)
  • “Analysis and illustration of the landscapes of the Pyrenees National Park.” Establishment of a landscape observatory in the six valleys of the park. (2010–12)
  • “Landscape Observatory of the Ariège Regional Nature Park.” Development of a photographic observatory at the scale of the Regional Nature Park (2006–2012)
  • “Calluna” program : The dynamics of Calluna vulgaris heathlands in the Pyrenean chain, between decline and stability? (2010–12)
  • Participation in the “OAPA. Observatorio y archivo del paisaje andaluz” programme (coord. Y. Jimenez Olivencia, Univ. Granada) (2009–2012)
  • Coordinator of the ECOS Nord programme “Relations between production systems and ecosystems in the Colombian Andes” (collab. Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá) (2009–2011)
  • Participation in the PAHF program “Les paysages d’arbres hors forêt: multi‑valorisation dans le cadre d’un développement local durable en Europe du Sud” (MEDDTL, Landscape and Sustainable Development Research Programme) (coord. S. Guillerme) (2006–2010)
  • Participation in the 2006–2009 program: “ESPINTER – Espaces intermédiaires pyrénéens. Genèse, paysages, architectures et dynamiques” Ministry of Culture, DAPA. Dir. D. Galop
  • “Anthropisation and environmental history in the mountains of southern Europe” program, MSH Network (2003–2006): sub‑programmes on the history of pastoral and forest areas and on contemporary dynamics and management of pastoral areas. Organisation of seminars and symposia. (PCR “Palaeoenvironment and dynamics of anthropisation in the Basque mountains”, coord. D. Galop, and PCR “Archaeology and history of pastoralism in Cerdanya”, coord. Ch. Rendu). Collaboration with LASA–University of Genoa on “environmental practices”.
  • PEVS program “La Joyanca”: environmental history and dynamics in the Maya lowlands (Petén, Guatemala). The programme, begun in 1999 in connection with the archaeological programme “Petén Nord Ouest – La Joyanca”, continued until 2003. From 2004 onwards, continuation of research within the new archaeological programme “PNO‑Hixwitz”: deepening research on long‑term environmental dynamics in the Maya lowlands; identification of long‑term occupation and phases of anthropisation in NW Petén, a poorly known region of the Maya area.
  • Programme “Was there a Little Ice Age in the Pyrenees?” Climate and environment in the Pyrenees from the Middle Ages to the present. (ECLIPSE). This programme (2002–2003) enabled the development of climatic chronological series and their correlation in the Pyrenees with the recent (19th–20th c.) dynamics of Pyrenean glaciers. Analysis of climate–natural hazards relationships.
  • Fire and land management in the Pyrenees. Continuation of work on fire–scrub encroachment relationships and pastoral management; development of long‑term analysis of fire impact in the Pyrenean range.
  • Participation in the research programme “Landscapes and Sustainable Development. History, assessment, proposals. The case of the transboundary Gavarnie/Mont‑Perdu massif, a World Heritage landscape” (2005–2006).
  • 2005–2007: participation in the ACI “Le complexe spatial Altaï‑Baïkal: spatialisation des flux géniques en Asie centrale et orientale”, a programme in cooperation with archaeologists and anthropo‑biologists (UMR 8555): development of a historical‑environmental approach in Siberia (Yakutia) to analyse the history of the region’s colonisation by pastoralist peoples (field missions in 2005 and 2006).