Modes d'habiter et sensibilités territoriales dans les campagnes belges.

in Croix, Nicole (Ed.) Des campagnes vivantes : un modèle pour l'Europe ? (2000)

Espace urbanisé et espace non urbanisé au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg.

in Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège (1999), 36

The paper uses agriculture and forestry statistics to determine major trends of both urbanized and non urbanized development in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It outlines the new morphological ... [more ▼]

The paper uses agriculture and forestry statistics to determine major trends of both urbanized and non urbanized development in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It outlines the new morphological urbanization. The urban areas has been confined since the indsutrial revolution to the south west of the country. However during the seventies development was structured by the transport corridors extending from the capital and mining areas. Two new urban regions began also to develop : the "dipole" Ettelbürck-Diekirch and the Moselle valley. Recent trends of urban development is in contrast to the earlier trends characterized by wide spreads morphological urbanization notably in the Oesling. [less ▲]

Vingt ans de rénovation rurale en Belgique wallonne

in Cadernos de Geografia (1998), 17

The paper analyses the twenty years of rural development policy in Wallonia and looks for its impact in the countryside renewal.

Occupation et utilisation du sol récentes en Région wallonne : analyses et synthèses

in Bulletin de la Société Belge d'Etudes Géographiques = Tijdschrift van de Belgische Vereniging voor Aardrijkskundige Studies (1998), 1

The first part is an analytical study based on an analysis of cadastral information. It presents facts and recent evolutionary processes of land use in Wallonia, especially agriculture, forest, waste land ... [more ▼]

The first part is an analytical study based on an analysis of cadastral information. It presents facts and recent evolutionary processes of land use in Wallonia, especially agriculture, forest, waste land and urbanized areas. The information is based on the municipality scale. The paper draws a compartmentalization of Wallonia: in 1992, urbanized areas represented over 20% and 40% in the urban-industrial trench and in Walloon Brabant, spilling area for Brussels population. In Ardennes, Loraine and Fagne Famenne, Forest prevailed occupying over 40% of the land. Agriculture was the main land used over 70% on low loess plateaux and with over 55% especially in Condroz and Central Ardennes. There was a slow decrease of agriculture between 1982 and 1992, usually with less than 10% for a third of the region. Forest erratically fluctuated between -5% and +5%. On the contrary urbanized areas grew everywhere with peaks around Liege, in Walloon Brabant and along motorways. It was the result of both residential urbanization and the standard increase of land use per inhabitant. The analysis shows that, during the seventies, peaks of urbanization coincide quite well with demographic evolution typology. The second part is a continuation of the preceding analytical study. It presents typology and evolution synthesis in order to divide Wallonia into districts and analyses some mechanics especially urbanization and land policy. The analytical maps lead to the building up of two types of municipalities: urban and country land use municipalities. Within the country type, five subtypes have been characterized upon the agriculture and forest combinations. Urbanization mechanics are responsible for the schematic division into two parts by a line, the south border of Condroz and Herve plateau. Urbanization concerns first the urban-industrial trench and Walloon Brabant. Hainaut is an forests also divide Wallonia between the north and the south. The agricultural areas are first victims of the urbanization progress. [less ▲]

Hydronyme et géosymbole : Salm-en-Ardenne. Quand un nom de rivière fait couler beaucoup d'encre

in Guillaud, Dominique; Seysset, Marie; Walter, Annie (Eds.) Le voyage inachevé... à Joël Bonnemaison (1998)

Cultural space is full significance and attachments. To illustrate the importance of place or river names for people, this paper analyses a petty local quarrel about the name of a river, the Salm or Glain ... [more ▼]

Cultural space is full significance and attachments. To illustrate the importance of place or river names for people, this paper analyses a petty local quarrel about the name of a river, the Salm or Glain, in the Belgian Ardenne and asks the question: wich has more meaning for the people, the place name at the place itself ? [less ▲]

Le temps et les représentations des modifications de l'environnement

in Barrué-Pastor, Monique; Bertrand, Georges (Eds.) Les temps de l'environnement (1997)

Recherches de géographie humaine, hommage au professeur Charles Christians.

Book published by Société Géographique de Liège (1996)

Un cimetière, une communauté, un espace : l’exemple liégeois

in Géographie et cultures (1995), 16

The article is the result of the study of 160 years of cemetery history in an urban region which houses today 510.000 peoples. It demonstrates the strong links between urban and rural communities and ... [more ▼]

The article is the result of the study of 160 years of cemetery history in an urban region which houses today 510.000 peoples. It demonstrates the strong links between urban and rural communities and their cemeteries. In order to do this, four points in cemetery history, chosen for the availability of reliable and comparable sources, have been chosen and described successively. Finally the article investigates the reasons for the exponential growth of requiered cemetery size. [less ▲]