work_institution birth_place field birth_date prizes article_title name
university of lausanne neuchâtel , switzerland geography 29 april 1940 vautrin lud international geography prize -lrb- 1997 -rrb- jean-bernard racine
 jean-bernard racine
jean-bernard racine

jean-bernard racine -lrb- born 1940 , neuchâtel , switzerland -rrb- is a professor of geography at the institute of geography , faculty of geosciences and environment of the university of lausanne -lrb- unil -rrb- and at hec lausanne business school .
professor racine received his first phd in geography from the university of aix-en-provence -lrb- 1965 -rrb- and his state phd in geography -lrb- 1973 -rrb- from the university of nice .
jean-bernard bernard was a professor at the university of sherbrooke between 1965 and 1969 , and at the university of ottawa from 1969 to 1973 .
jean-bernard racine is the author of many articles and books in the fields of quantitative geography , epistemology and social geography .
influenced by brian berry , walter isard , peter gould and david harvey , he published `` l'analyse quantitative en géographie '' in 1971 with h. reymond and was widely considered as one of the pioneers of the `` new geography '' in the 1970s in the francophone world .
professor racine has also contributed to the development of epistemology in the social sciences as evidenced by his 1981 book called `` problématiques de la géographie '' published with h. isnard and h. reymond .
in the 1990s and 2000s , his interests moved again , to become concerned with issues of social and cultural geography : `` la ville entre dieu et les hommes '' was published in 1993 .
professor racine has received the vautrin lud international geography prize -lrb- france -rrb- in 1997 .
he holds an honorary doctorate from iasi -lrb- romania -rrb- .
