Augustin Berque#
| Membership Number: | 801 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- Director of studies at the EHESS (School of advanced studies in the social sciences)
Fields of Scholarship
- Geography
- Orientalism (Japanology)
- Unsustainability in human settlements
- Natural history and human history
Honours and Awards
- Prize of the French Geographical Society for his book Médiance, 1991
- Chevalier of the Order of Merit (Ministry of Environment), 1991
- Member of the Academia europaea, 1991
- Prize of the Japanese society for cultural design, for his works in the theory of landscape, 1995
- Yamagata Bantô Prize for his works in Japanese studies, 1997
- Silver medal of the CNRS for his works in geography, 2000
- Cultural prize of the Japanese society of architects, for his works on human settlements in Japan, 2006
- Fukuoka Asian Culture Grand Prize, 2009
