Roger Brunet

Roger Brunet (born March 30, 1931)[1] is a French geographer.

French geographer Roger Brunet in 1996

Life

Born in Toulouse, Brunet attended the University of Toulouse, where he earned his PhD in 1965. He was subsequently professor at the University of Reims from 1966 to 1976, where he founded IATEUR. He was director of research at CNRS from 1976 to 1981, and from 1981 to 1984 served advisory and research roles in various French government ministries. In 1984, he founded the public interest group RECLUS, which he headed until 1991.[2]

Work

In the early 1970s, Brunet emerged as a leader in a movement to give academic geography a bigger role in practical issues, such as urban planning policies and secondary-school geography curricula, and founded the journal L'Espace géographique in 1972.[3]

He was particularly associated with the development of the chorem, a cartographic approach to representing complex geographic information (including human geography) using a simplified set of spatial primitives.[3] Chorems gained significant adoption in geography education, but also drew critics for allegedly oversimplifying and focusing too strongly on spatial representation.[3][4] This cartographic approach to geography was, from the early 1980s, a rival to Yves Lacoste's geopolitical approach. Brunet founded the cartographic geography journal Mappemonde in 1986, which in turn was a rival to Lacoste's Hérodote.[4]

In the popular press, the "blue banana" is one of his best-known productions. Developed in 1989 as part of a study overseen by Brunet that aimed to study French territory in its contemporary European context, the concept proposed that the backbone of Europe was formed by a curved axis of highly urbanized regions that bypassed France.[5]

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gollark: If you go out of your way to do exactly the opposite of what "rules" say, they have as much control over you as they do on someone who does exactly what the rules *do* say.
gollark: I'm glad you're making sure to violate norms in socially approved ways which signify you as "out there" or something.
gollark: > if you can convince them that their suffering benefits other people, then they'll happily submit to itI am not convinced that this is actually true of people, given any instance of "selfishness" etc. ever.
gollark: Yes, you can only make something optimize effectively for good if you can define what that is rigorously, and people haven't yet and wouldn't agree on it.

References
  1. "Notice d'autorité personne: Brunet, Roger". Bibliothèque nationale de France. 2010-02-17. Retrieved 2010-04-26.
  2. "Roger BRUNET". RECLUS. Retrieved 2010-04-26.
  3. Vincent R.H. Berdoulay (2001). "Geography in France: Context, Practice, and Text". In Gary S. Dunbar (ed.). Geography: Discipline, Profession, and Subject since 1870. Springer. pp. 70–71. ISBN 1-4020-0019-7.
  4. Paul Claval (2000). "Hérodote and the French Left". In Klaus Dodds and David Atkinson (ed.). Geopolitical Traditions: A Century of Geopolitical Thought. Routledge. pp. 259–260. ISBN 0-415-17249-7.
  5. Andreas Faludi (2009). "The Megalopolis, the Blue Banana, and Global Economic Integration Zones in European Planning Thought". In Catherine L. Ross (ed.). Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness. Island Press. p. 26. ISBN 1-59726-586-1.
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