A French scientific interest group (groupement d'intérêt scientifique GIS) set up in 2010
Under the triple supervision of French CNRS, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris Diderot - Paris 7 universities, and in partnership with ADEME, CGET (ex-DATAR), IAU île-de-France, INED and IRD, the International College of Territorial Sciences (Collège international des sciences du territoires CIST) gathers 23 research units.
Contributing to the formalisation of a transdisciplinary research area
Its scientific ambition is to contribute to formalising a transdisciplinary research area, the "territorial sciences". In order to achieve this, it approaches as much the humanities and social sciences (geography, demography, economics, law, political sciences, sociology, history, archeology...), as earth sciences (climatology, geology, biology...), health sciences or engineering sciences (modelisation, geomatics...).
9 scientific areas
CIST activities are structured around 9 scientific areas and cross-area projects, in connection with its research units.
- Actions and Territorialisations
- Agricultures, Territories and Sustainable Development
- Biodiversity and Territories
- Local Territorial Information
- M&Medias and Territories
- Mobilities, Identities and Territories
- Regionalisations in the World
- Risks and Territories
- Territories and Health.
