Hervé Théry

Hervé Théry (born 1951 in Somain, France) is a French and Brazilian internationally renowned geographer. A specialist in Brazilian territorial dynamics, his research focuses on topics such as pioneer agricultural fronts (e.g., soybean in Mato Grosso, sugarcane in São Paulo), ecological tensions, and thematic cartography.

He is currently an emeritus research director at CREDAL-CNRS and a professor at the University of São Paulo (USP). In 2007, he co-founded the Franco-Brazilian geography journal ''Confins'' with Neli Aparecida de Mello. Provided by Wikipedia