LIVE Image City Environment

The Image, City, Environment (LIVE) center conducts research in the geo-environmental field, at the intersection of the geosciences and of the social sciences and humanities. Our approach can be defined as a human ecology, aimed at analyzing the relationships between populations and their environments. We are affiliated with the CNRS’s two national institutes for “Ecology and environment” and “Social sciences and humanities”. Our research focuses on three dimensions: 

The image, - satellite or otherwise, - the map, or the figure are primarily tools for knowledge, allowing for the analysis and representation of phenomena for the purpose of understanding them. It can also be a communication material used to synthetize and explain data to a wide variety of audiences.  

The city has become an everyday environment for over half of humanity. It is a complex organism in which very different populations, from multiple horizons, mix and operate in a geographical space that is characterized both by human development and unavoidable environmental limitations.

The environment involves human and environmental dimensions, against the backdrop of a major environmental crisis with a clear social impact. We strive to better understand and characterize the environment and its dynamics by studying atmospheric, hydrological and landscape dimensions and its interactions with the anthropic element.

The LIVE research center is a pluridisciplinary team of 80 members and counting. It operates as a mixed CNRS/University of Strasbourg unit (UMR7362).