Yves Lacoste
Encyclopedia
Yves Lacoste is a French
geographer
and geopolitician
. He was born in Fes
, Morocco
. In 1976 he established the French geopolitical journal "Hérodote
". He is the author of a "Geopolitical Dictionary" (1993).
In one of his known works, La Géographie du sous-développement, Lacoste suggests a spatial explanation of underdevelopment.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
geographer
Geographer
A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
and geopolitician
Geopolitics
Geopolitics, from Greek Γη and Πολιτική in broad terms, is a theory that describes the relation between politics and territory whether on local or international scale....
. He was born in Fes
Fes
Fes or Fez is the second largest city of Morocco, after Casablanca, with a population of approximately 1 million . It is the capital of the Fès-Boulemane region....
, Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
. In 1976 he established the French geopolitical journal "Hérodote
Hérodote
Hérodote is a French journal about geography and geopolitics. Founded in 1976 by Yves Lacoste, it has been influential in reviving the use of the term geopolitics in France. "Hérodote" is the French version of the name of the ancient Greek historian, Herodotus....
". He is the author of a "Geopolitical Dictionary" (1993).
In one of his known works, La Géographie du sous-développement, Lacoste suggests a spatial explanation of underdevelopment.
Writings
- Les Pays sous-développés (1959)
- Géographie du sous-développement (1965)
- Ibn Khaldoun - Naissance de l'histoire du Tiers-Monde (1965)
- La Géographie ça sert d'abord à faire la guerre (1976) ISBN 2707108154
- Contre les anti-tiersmondistes et contre certains tiersmondistes (1985)
- Géopolitique des régions françaises (1986)
- vol 1: La France septentrionale
- vol 2: La Façade atlantique
- vol 3: La France du sud-est
- Dictionnaire de Géopolitique (1993) ISBN 208035101X
- Dictionnaire géopolitique des États (1994) ISBN 2080351044
- La Légende de la terre (1996) ISBN 2080354469
- Vive la Nation - Destin d'une idée géopolitique (1998) ISBN 2213596131
- L'Eau des hommes (2002) ISBN 270220628X
- |De la Géopolitique aux Paysages. Dictionnaire de la Géographie (2003) ISBN 2200265387
- Maghreb, peuple et civilisation (avec Camille Lacoste-Dujardin) (2004) ISBN 2707144320
- Géopolitique. La longue histoire d'aujourd'hui (2006) ISBN 2035054214
- L'Eau dans le monde : les batailles pour la vie (2006) ISBN 2035825784
- Géopolitique de la Méditerranée (2006) ISBN 2200268408