PhD in Geography and agronomist, Member of the Académie d’Agriculture de France, is Emeritus Professor in Landscape Sciences at the National School of Landscape Architecture of Versailles-Marseille – ENSP – France, where he is teaching since 1977. He has founded the Departments of Ecology, the Department of Human & Social Sciences, the Regional Training Workshops, the Research Laboratory, the PhD Programme and the Master Théories et démarches du projet de paysage in collaboration with the Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne University and AgroParis Tech (University of Paris–Saclay).