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Max Rousseau

Max Rousseau is a research fellow in political science (CIRAD, UMR CNRS 5281 ART-Dev). Since 2014, he has worked as an assistant professor at the INAU in Rabat, Morocco. He is particularly interested in marginalized territories, in Northern as well as Southern countries. icon

It’s the Geography, Stupid! Planetary Urbanization Revealed

By Éric Charmes & Max Rousseau

Covid-19 spread so rapidly because urbanization is now planetary: connecting disparate territories through flows of goods and people.

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