Map of the geography of international aid in Laos

Research

Research

Academic publications

Geographic data is a tool of power, and its co-production is a political act.

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

From Laos to Myanmar, the Caribbean to the Sahel, and the drylands of Northern Kenya, my work draws on transdisciplinary and participatory approaches: multi-stakeholder mapping, geographic information systems, spatial analysis, artificial intelligence applied to field data.

Geographic dataLand governanceConservationInternational aidParticipatory mappingAgroecologyAI & NLPClimate adaptationDrylands & pastoral systemsCommunity conservancies
Doctoral thesis - Geography of aid in Laos

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

Papers & proceedings

2020 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)

2019 Oil palm concessions in southern Myanmar consist mostly of unconverted forest ↗

Nomura, Mitchard, Patenaude, Bastide, Oswald, Nwe

Nature Scientific Reports vol. 9

2015 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

2008 Évaluation des risques liés aux variations spatiotemporelles de la pluviométrie au Sahel ↗

Bastide, Métais, Fillol

Carnets des technologies pour l'humanitaire

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