UMR 5602 GEODE Géographie de l’environnement (CNRS/Université Toulouse 2)

The UMR 5602 GEODE (Environmental Geography) laboratory is a joint CNRS (INEE)/Toulouse Jean Jaurès University with about 50 permanent members and PhD students. The scientific activities focus on studies of environmental and landscape processes from the reconstruction of natural and socio-ecological processes in a long term duration to spatial modelling or to the establishment of prospective scenarios, by the way of management expertise and the development of contemporary processes.This multi/inter-disciplinary team associates specialists in environment and geography, geohistorians, palaeoenvironmentalists (palaeoecologists), ecologists, archaeologists, specialists in remote sensing and modellers and GEODE research activity is connected with three technical platforms (the Palaeoenvironemental and Geoarchaeological platform, the spatial modelling platform and 3D modelling platform) and two fields observatories (Observatoire Hommes-Milieux OHM Pyrénées Haut Vicdessos and SEEG Grotte des Fraux).