Chrono-environnement - UMR 6249 CNRS/UFC
Campus de la Bouloie
16 rue de Gray
25030 Besançon cedex
France

Hervé Richard

Senior Research Scientist Emeritus
SOPAST

herve.richard@-Code to remove to avoid SPAM-univ-fcomte.fr
+33 (0)6 07 75 30 10, room -110M (La Bouloie)

Palynology, paleoenvironment, paleoclmiatology, social-environmental relations, agricultural practices

Reconstruction of the evolution of vegetation and climate over the last 20 millennia, based on the analysis of pollen grains and spores preserved in lake, marsh and peat sediments. Relations between successive human societies and their environment over the last eight millennia.

Three main themes:

* ancient and current references, and multiple uses of pollen

* changing relationships between human settlements, vegetation and climate

* causes of variations in agro-sylvopastoral landscapes.

Jura Massif, Northern Alps, Massif Central. Switzerland, Mexico, Chilean Patagonia, Hungary, Syria, Greenland, Croatia.