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= Christian Verlaque = Born: September 15, 1936 in Boulemane, Morocco

Biography
High school teacher in Algeria (1958-1962) and then in Perpignan (1962-1965), he was elected professor of economic geography at the University of Montpellier (1965-1996) after his defense of a State thesis.

He was vice-president of IDATE [ 1 ] from 1976 to 1986. Rector of the Académie de Corse (1987-1990) [ 2 ], he chairs commissions at the French National Geographic Committee (CNFG) [ 3 ] and at the International Geographic Union (IGU) between 1988 and 1996. He participated in the first issues of the journal Netcom (1987).

Research areas
Christian Verlaque, specialist in industrial geography, transport and telecommunications, is the author of numerous books and articles that have marked French and international economic geography.

Industrial geography
He is particularly interested in the exploitation of petroleum (in the Sahara  ), the transport of petroleum and petrochemicals in the Mediterranean Basin  and in Japan  . He also studied industrial decentralization in Paris  . He is the author of a basic textbook on this area of ​​geography, L'Espace industriel (1978).

Regional geography
He published a book on Languedoc-Roussillon  .

Shipping geography
He is considered to be “one of the best French specialists on the issue  ”. Author of a State thesis on the industrialization of the ports of the western Mediterranean (1970  ), Christian Verlaque was interested in both ports and maritime fleets. His treatise Geography of maritime transport is considered to be "a reference work on the subject and for all economic geography  ".

Communications geography
His duties at the Audiovisual and Telecommunications Institute in Europe ( IDATE ) led him to take an interest in telephone flows and new information and communication technologies (NTIC)  . He chaired commissions on the geography of communication. He contributed to the first issues of the Netcom review founded in 1987 by Henry Bakis. In his articles, he studied the telephone flows of Languedoc-Roussillon , the spread of Minitel in France, the American cable networks (1995), as well as the contribution of ICT to economic efficiency and emergence of new forms of spatial organization.

Books

 * 1964 (with Hafedh Sethom): The petroleum Sahara, Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 607 p.
 * 1972 Industrialization of the ports of the western Mediterranea n, University of Lille, Department for the reproduction of theses (State thesis, 1970), Lille
 * 1975 Geography of maritime transport, Doin, Paris, 437 p.
 * 1978 (with Bernard Dézert): Industrial space, Masson, Paris
 * 1984: Thirty years of industrial decentralization in France (1954-1984), Paris, CREPIF, 207 p.
 * 1987 Languedoc-Roussillon, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France (collection "The regional question"), 184 p.

Articles and miscellaneous

 * 1965: "Cartagena: the elements of a renaissance", Annales de Géographie, vol. 74, no 405, p. 560–590.
 * 1966: "The transport and refining of petroleum in the Mediterranean basin", Méditerranée, n ° 2, p. 91-158 Read online.
 * 1968: “Petroleochemistry in Japan. An aspect of the development of Japanese industry ”, Cahiers d'Outre-Mer, No. 83, July-September 1968, p. 257-275 Read online.
 * 1969: "The evolution of maritime fleets", Bulletin of the Languedoc Society of Geography, p. 195–234.
 * 1984: "Maritime transport and the French economy: geographic aspects", Norois, vol. 121, n ° 1, p. 31–44 Read online.
 * 1985: "Pour une géographie de la communication" ', Revue geographic de l'Est, vol. 25, n ° 1, p. 13–32 Read online.
 * 1988: "Les espaces du Minitel ", in: Henry Bakis et al., Information and spatial organization, Caen, Paradigme, 1988.
 * 1995: "Cable networks: the American example", Annales de Géographie, vol. 104, no. 585-586, p. 540–562 Read online.
 * 1999: "The great tourist developments, 1962-1974", in: François Caron and Maurice, Vaïsse, Spatial planning 1958-1974, proceedings of the conference held in Dijon on November 21 and 22, 1996, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999, 394 p.

Awards
Christian Verlaque is a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor, an Officer of the National Order of Merit (France), and a Knight of the Academic Palms Order.