Eric Lambin (born 23 September 1962) is a Belgian geographer. He is a professor at the

Université catholique de Louvain UCLouvain (or Université catholique de Louvain , French for Catholic University of Louvain, officially in English the University of Louvain) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university and one of the oldest in Europe (originally establishe ...

and

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. From 1999 to 2005, he was Chair of the Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) project (a joint initiative of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the

International Human Dimensions Programme The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) was a research programme that studied the human and societal aspects of the phenomenon of global change. IHDP aimed to frame, develop and integrate social science ...

(IHDP)). In July 2019, Lambin received the 2019 Blue Planet Prize for a research project which cross-referenced satellite data with the socioeconomic class of the areas it came from. The intent of the research was to find and highlight the impact of economic

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on local ecosystems and their residents, and found that reforestation in one area of the world corresponded to an increased timber industry in others. Between 2020 and 2025, Lambin served as a Chief Scientific Advisor to the European Commission.

Publications

In addition to numerous scientific articles, he has published books intended for a wider audience: * ''La Terre sur un fil'', éditions Le Pommier, 2004 - rééd. 2010 ** ''The Middle Path'', English translation, University of Chicago Press * ''Une écologie du bonheur'', éditions Le Pommier, 2009 * co-author, with Christophe André, Ilios Kotsou, Caroline Lesire and others ''Psychologie positive, le bonheur dans tous ses états'', éditions Jouvence * ''Le consommateur planétaire'', éditions Le Pommier, 2015

References

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