Research

Academic publications

My research sits at the intersection of geography, spatial data and governance. For fifteen years, I have been working on territories under pressure: where aid policies, land rights, conservation and agricultural practices collide.

From Laos to Myanmar, the Caribbean to the Sahel, my work draws on transdisciplinary and participatory approaches: multi-stakeholder mapping, geographic information systems, spatial analysis, artificial intelligence applied to field data. What connects these projects is a shared conviction: geographic data is a tool of power, and its co-production is a political act.

Geographic data Land governance Conservation International aid Participatory mapping Agroecology AI & NLP Climate change
Doctoral thesis

Doctoral thesis

Geography of aid in Laos

On the spatial dimensions and effectiveness of international development aid in Laos. Based on three years of field research and a decade of professional experience. University of Geneva.

Publications

Assembling Drones, Activists and Oil Palms: Implications of a Multi-stakeholder Land Platform for State Formation in Myanmar ↗

Baechtold, Bastide, Lundsgaard-Hansen

European Journal of Development Research 32(2), 2020

Oil palm concessions in southern Myanmar consist mostly of unconverted forest ↗

Nomura, Mitchard, Patenaude, Bastide, Oswald, Nwe

Nature Scientific Reports vol. 9, 2019

Do Relocated Villages Experience More Forest Cover Change? ↗

Boillat, Heinimann, Giraut, Bastide

Environments, 2015

Integrating Forest Cover Change with Census Data ↗

Boillat, Heinimann, Giraut, Bastide

Land, 2015

Évaluation des risques liés aux variations spatiotemporelles de la pluviométrie au Sahel ↗

Bastide, Métais, Fillol

Carnets des technologies pour l'humanitaire, 2008

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