Christian Schulz: Spaces and places of globalisation – views from human geography

Christian Schulz is Professor of European Sustainable Spatial Development and Analysis at the University of Luxembourg and since 2007 Head of its interdisciplinary Research Unit IPSE (Identités. Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces).
His research and teaching mainly focus on cross-border regional development in Europe as well as on environmental economic geography. He recently co-edited the first handbook on spatial development in Luxembourg (Chilla/Schulz 2011: Raumordnung in Luxemburg / Aménagement du territoire au Luxembourg, Binsfeld). In March 2012, a co-authored textbook on economic geography will be released in German (Braun/Schulz 2012: Wirtschaftsgeographie, UTB-Ulmer, forthcoming). He co-directed the ESPON study METROBORDER - Cross-Border Polycentric Metropolitan Regions (2008-2009).
He is a core group member of the Regional Studies Association’s research network on ecological regional development, member of the editorial board of The Canadian Geographer and Europa Regional, and acts on the international advisory board of the International College of Territorial Sciences / Collège International des Sciences du Territoire (CIST) based in Paris.