Denis Gautier

Denis Gautier is a geographer specialized in the management of natural and renewable resources in dryland areas. Trained as an agronomist, specialized in tropical forestry, he holds a PhD and a “habilitation a diriger des recherches” in geography. His research interests are the geographical analysis of resource management governance and practices, with a focus on the issues of access and use rights and on the territorialisation processes, and on the link between the ecosystems resilience and the vulnerability of people that are living of the woodland and agroforestry parklands products and more generally their ecosystem services. Within CIRAD, Denis Gautier is belonging to a research unit working on the goods and services provided by the tropical forest ecosystems. He is presently based in