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Roger Brunet, was born on March 30th, 1931, he is a french geographer, and is a retired professeur and directer of research at CNRS ( National Centre of Scientific Research)

Biography

 Born in Toulouse, Roger Brunet did his studies at university. And recieved the highest diploma, which helped support his thesis on the "Toulouse Campaigne" and his other thesis on the "Phenomena of Discontinuity in Geography" in 1965

Brunet was very successive at his work, he was a workers assistance, and lecturer and teacher at the university of Toulouse (1957-1966) After Brunet left Toulouse and travelled to the south and becamse a professer in Champagne at the University of Reims (1966-1976) he was both the director in the geography institution and was the founding director for the Institue of management of Spatial planning and environment at the University of Reims.

Roger Brunet then went back to Paris and became directer of research for the CNRS (Documentation Centre of Humanities and laboratory Intergeo) from 1976-1981

Between 1981 and 1984, he became technical adviser to the Minister of Research and Technology, responsible for Humanities and the Corporation, and Chief of Department of Humanities and Society at the Ministry of Research.

In 1984 he founded the Public Interest Group RECLUS Network (study of changes in location and spatial units), a name chosen in homage to Reclus, one of the first authors of a universal geography, between 1855 1894. Between 1990 and 1996, this group of researchers was developing a new Universal Geography in ten volumes.

Il crée et dirige les revues l'Espace géographique (1972-2003) et Mappemonde (1986-2004). Il est docteur honoris causa des universités de Liège et de Lausanne.

Il est aussi particulièrement célèbre pour avoir été au cœur du développement d'une nouvelle méthode de représentation schématique de l'espace, les chorèmes, dans les années 1980. Il est d'ailleurs l'inventeur de ce néologisme. Après avoir été largement utilisée, même dans l'enseignement secondaire, la chorématique est aujourd'hui moins répandue et de plus en plus critiquée.

Dans "Géographes, génération 1930, à propos de Roger Brunet, Paul Claval, Olivier Dollfus, François Durand-dastès, Armand Frémont, Fernand Verger", Presses Universitaires de Rennes, collection Espace et territoires, 2009, 228 p., préface de Marie-Claire Robic, on trouvera une mise en perspective de sa vie professionnelle au sein des collègues proches de la revue "Espace géographique", ainsi qu'un choix personnel au sein de ses propres écrits.