MSP Research Network

Full professor, Geography, Nantes University (2007-...)
Director of LETG (a CNRS research lab: LETG)

Maritime geography, GIS/mapping, Thesis supervision (to date: 79 Master students and 10 PhD candidates).

I've also been the Director of the Master programme "Geography & Planning of Maritime spaces" (2011-2015), created in 1976 in the University of Nantes.

I am a geographer whose research focuses on ocean geography, more specifically on the relations between human groups and maritime space. Through the lens of STS and critical approaches, I particularly use the case of fisheries and marine renewable energy in marine spatial planning to study how power relations and knowledge issues intertwine in (geo)technological devices (maps, data portals...) that ultimately shape 'socio-technical agencements' forming an intermediate with the marine 'environment'.

• Tissière L., & Trouillet, B. (2022) What participation means in marine spatial planning systems? Lessons from the French case. Planning Practice & Research, 37:3, 355-376. https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2022.2027638
  
• Trouillet, B., & Jay, S. (2021) The complex relationships between marine protected areas and marine spatial planning: Towards an analytical framework. Marine Policy, 127, 104441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104441
• Said, A., & Trouillet, B. (2020) Bringing 'Deep knowledge' of fisheries into marine spatial planning. Maritime Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-020-00178-y
• Trouillet, B. (2020) Reinventing marine spatial planning: a critical review of initiatives worldwide. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 22(4), 441-459. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2020.1751605
• Trouillet, B. (2019) Aligning with dominant interests: the role played by geo-technologies in the place given to fisheries in marine spatial planning. Geoforum, 107, 54-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.10.012
• Trouillet, B., Bellanger-Husi, L., El Ghaziri, A., Lamberts, C., Plissonneau, E., & Rollo, N. (2019) More than maps: Providing an alternative for fisheries and fishers in marine spatial planning. Ocean & Coastal Management, 173, 90-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2019.02.016