ESO

Space and Societies (ESO) - UMR CNRS 6590

Universities of Angers, Caen, Nantes, Rennes and Le Mans

 
The laboratory gathers geographers, regional and urban planners and researchers from other disciplines (sociology, environmental psychology, architecture).
From its historic roots in social geography, the UMR ESO’s scientific project has expanded into the spatial dimension of social relations and the study of inequalities in all their forms, using all of the disciplines represented in the laboratory.
The scientific objective is to contribute to the awareness and understanding of the spatial aspect of societies.

280 people
120 researchers, professors and assistant professors | 17 at Le Mans
130 doctoral students | 22 at Le Mans
20 administrative and technical staff | 4 at Le Mans

 Partnerships
Local governements and agencies, Non-Profit Organizations, private compagnies, Le Mans Métropole, Syndicats mixtes de Pays (Le Mans, Haute Sarthe), Syndicats mixtes de Schéma d’aménagement et de gestion des eaux (Mayenne, Sarthe amont, Huisne), Pôle d'équilibre territorial et rural du Perche, Direction Départementale des Territoires (Sarthe, Mayenne), Conseil d'Architecture, d'Urbanisme et de l'Environnement, Chambres consulaires, Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Énergie, Agence française de développement, Processing companies - management of waste, commercial distribution and promotion and urban planning companies (Eiffage, SETEC). International collaborations are particularly dynamic with Tunisia, Cameroon, Algeria, Morocco,
Brazil, Canada and China.

• Equipment: two drones registered with the CNRS and a large-format A0 printer
• Multidisciplinarity: Geography, urban and regional planning, sociology, environmental psychology and Architecture and urban designer
• From local territorial studies to international development projects

Member of TourismLab, Research Training and Innovation Institute in Pays de la Loire

Director: Emmanuelle Hellier (Rennes 2 University)
Director of the Le Mans site: Gérald Billard | gerald.billard @ univ-lemans.fr (gerald.billard @ univ-lemans.fr)

More informations:
Download the presentation sheet of ESO (EN)
Visit the website of ESO