Bernadette Merenne-Schoumaker

Atlas des énergies mondiales

« La transition energetique ne peut pas laisser sur le bord du chemin une part de la population mondiale. » 150 cartes et infographies nouvelles ou mises a jour pour comprendre les enjeux energetiques du XXIe siecle. • Charbon, nucleaire, petrole, hydraulique, eolien, photovoltaique : toutes les energies, traditionnelles ou renouvelables. • Ressources limitees, fluctuation des prix, gestion des pollutions et des dechets, prevention des risques : une energie sous contraintes. • Qui detient les ressources, qui maitrise la production, qui approvisionne le monde ? La quatrieme edition de cet atlas fait le point sur les techniques, l’economie, la geopolitique de l’energie. Elle presente les actions a mettre en œuvre pour faire de l’energie un facteur de developpement plus equitable et plus respectueux de l’environnement. Date de premiere edition : 2015.

School Geography Textbooks in Francophone Belgium

In Francophone Belgium, textbooks are very rare since the reform of secondary schools in 1969 and 1972. Four principal reasons explain this situation: new aims of education (learning how to learn); multiplication of syllabuses, mainly in the French community; stress laid on the environment and current issues; and the limited size of the market. If this situation is stimulated for some teachers (they are artisans of their educational practice), the global evaluation is more negative than positive: lessons appear more as collections of juxtaposed documents than structured learning situations, and generally geography is becoming a soft option with an unfocused and incoherent content. It is imperative to refocus geographical education on its basic concepts and skills, and to give new textbooks to the students.