Introduction: Institutional Collaboration for Multiple Border Crossings

Hélène Ducros holds a doctorate in law and a PhD in geography from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She studies lived space, placemaking, attachment to place, and landscape change and perception. Her research has inquired into rural transformations and rural-urban dynamics through an understanding of heritage preservation within localized cultural and economic policy. She is the creator and founding editor of Global Europe Journal (ESPOL, Université Catholique de Lille).