Geographer Fabien Bourlon, born in Toulon in the south of France in 1967, works at the Patagonian Ecosystems Investigation Research Center and at the Universidad Austral de Chile, based at Coyhaique in the Aysén region. His research specialisms are social geopgraphy and territorial dynamics in isolated regions. Bourlon is a member of the local development organisation CODESA and the social and environmental movement “Aysén Reserva de Vida” (“Aysén Living Reserve”). He lives in Coyhaique.