Specialization: territories and sustainable development

Objective of the specialization

Providing the resources to design, manage, lead and evaluate multi-partner projects for value chains, territories, renewable energies and environmental management, and to define and implement innovative strategies for companies, local authorities, associations and inter-branch organisations, based on an integrated and critical vision of global and local challenges.

Perrine VANDENBROUCKE

Lecturer and researcher in geography

Expertise

French and European agricultural economics and policy, entrepreneurial renewal in agriculture.
Agricultural and food transitions in urban, rural and peri-urban territories: agroecology, food insecurity, gardens and orchards.

Skills you will develop

1. Understand the economic mechanisms, market organisation, stakeholders, public policies and regulations driving agricultural, food and energy transitions at global, European, national and local authority levels.

2. Analyse the challenges of a territory in its various dimensions (geographical, economic, agricultural, social, political, cultural and ecological) and understand stakeholder dynamics using qualitative surveys, landscape analysis and mapping tools.

3. Support the emergence of a unifying territorial project with various partners, using argumentation, consultation and facilitation methods.

4. Design, manage, finance and evaluate a territorial project for resource management (water, biodiversity, etc.), sustainable food or renewable energy, taking regulations into account and using collaborative, digital and evaluation tools.

5. Master data and digital challenges in the management of territories, agroecosystems and food systems.

Program

Specialization-specific modules in the 4th year