History

GéoRESBIO - Environment & Biodiversity Conservation

In March 2009, all the Teachers-Researchers of Environmental Geography of the Institute of Tropical Geography (IGT) - Félix Houphouët-Boigny University (UFHB) created the Laboratory of Environment and Risk Geography (LAGERIS ). The LAGERIS was organized into four research axes, including the Natural Resources Management Axis which will become GéoRESBIO, ten years later. Indeed, after long years of operation, the members of LAGERIS decide to revitalize it following a stocktaking meeting on July 26, 2019. This led to the creation of the Research Team for Sustainable Management of Environment and Societies (GEDES), in August 16, 2019, in replacement of LAGERIS.

GEDES comprises four Research Groups operating independently. The Geomatics, Natural Resources and Biodiversity Research Group (Géo-RESBIO) is one of them. The GeoRESBIO is dedicated to socio-economic development, teaching and putting into practice the methods and tools of Geography and associated disciplines to address complex environmental issues that undermine the spaces and territories of human societies in full growth and economic transformation. It brings together natural environments, spaces, territories and societies in order to better understand the resulting interactions at the individual, local and national level. The results of the analyzes resulting from this approach constitute basic data for sustainable management of the environment, useful to decision-makers.
Hundred of guests including faculty members, heads of department, development partners, professionals, leaders of Organizations of Civil Society (CSO), as well as Masters and Doctorate students attended the official ceremony for the beginning of GeoRESBIO's scientific activities, on October 24th, 2019, at IGT - UFHB. Find out more...

On December 18th, 2019, during the working meeting extended to Teachers and Researchers of the Félix Houphouet-Boigny University, and to the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), it was unanimously decided to make the GeoRESBIO a research team that collaborates with scientists and professionals from various scientific groups, research centers and institutes. Find out more...