Dr Florence REVELIN

Environmental Anthropologist, CNRS

Florence Revelin is an environmental anthropologist, currently working as post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC), Nanterre (France). She is interested in the social dynamics of patrimonialization based on nature and culture attributes and values. She particularly worked on European fieldwork in mountainous areas designated as mixed World Heritage Sites (Laponia, Pyrénées Mont-Perdu), with a specific focus on tourism issues and local governance. She is a member of the World Heritage working group of the French committee of the IUCN since 2014. From 2016 to 2019, she coordinated an international Erasmus+ Master's Program on the Dynamics of cultural Landscapes and Heritage Management (DYCLAM) for the National Museum of Natural History (Paris).  In 2017, she participated in the Capacity Building Workshop on Nature Culture Linkages organized at Tsukuba University (Japan) focusing on sacred landscapes.