Ian Florin
Ian Florin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Landscape Development (LAND). Additionally, he is an associated researcher at the Department of Geography of the University of Geneva and a senior lecturer at HEPIA. He holds a PhD in geography from the University of Geneva.
Before joining EPFL, Ian worked at the University of Geneva as a senior lecturer at the Department of Geography (2022-2024) and as a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (2014-2020). Between 2020 and 2021, he was affiliated to the Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies as a Swiss National Science Foundation fellow.
His research interests encompass the circulation and contestation of nature conservation concepts, local environmental governance, and environmental geopolitics. Ian has an extensive experience in teaching in political geography, nature conservation, qualitative methods and interdisciplinarity at both the Bachelor's and Master's levels. He has also served as the coordinator of the Certificate of Advanced studies in Sustainable Development at the University of Geneva (2022-2024).
Before joining EPFL, Ian worked at the University of Geneva as a senior lecturer at the Department of Geography (2022-2024) and as a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (2014-2020). Between 2020 and 2021, he was affiliated to the Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies as a Swiss National Science Foundation fellow.
His research interests encompass the circulation and contestation of nature conservation concepts, local environmental governance, and environmental geopolitics. Ian has an extensive experience in teaching in political geography, nature conservation, qualitative methods and interdisciplinarity at both the Bachelor's and Master's levels. He has also served as the coordinator of the Certificate of Advanced studies in Sustainable Development at the University of Geneva (2022-2024).
Selected publications
Les relations entre l’Europe du Nord et la Russie post-soviétique à travers le prisme de la conservation de la nature : perspectives géopolitiques sur l’initiative pour la ceinture verte de Fennoscandie
FLORIN, Ian
Published in L'Espace Politique, 2024, N°53-54 in
L’ouverture contrastée d’un front écologique dans la Russie post-soviétique: la ceinture verte de Fennoscandie
FLORIN, Ian
Published in EchoGéo, 2024, n° 70 in
Du rideau de fer au réseau écologique : Géopolitique et conservation de la nature aux frontières de l’Europe du Nord
FLORIN, Ian
Published in Alphil Presses Universitaires Suisses in
The limits of devolving sustainable development to the local level: the case of the Greenbelt of Fennoscandia initiative
FLORIN, Ian
Published in Sociologia Ruralis, 2023, vol. 63, pp. 611-628 in
Les enjeux de l’interdisciplinarité de la recherche et des parcours de formation sur le changement climatique : l’école d’été «Autour du 2°C».
MATHY, Sandrine et al.
Published in Natures Sciences Sociétés, 2021, vol. 29, n° 1, pp. 68-76 in
A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change. Edited by Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual, and Andrea Bagnato
FLORIN, Ian
Published in Mountain Research and Development, 2019, vol. 39, n° 2, pp. M1-M2 in