Christine AubrySenior Associate Researcher and Consultant Professor
AgroParisTech
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Christine Aubry is an agricultural engineer who holds a PhD in agronomy (AgroParisTech) and is qualified to supervise research. She is currently responsible for the Urban Agriculture research team at SADAPT UMR (joint research centre) and co-leads an engineering training programme at AgroParisTech (Engineering of Urban Vegetated Spaces). She initiated the T4P (Toits Parisiens Productifs Projet Pilote) project and created the research team on urban agriculture in 2012. She has been overseeing an "Urban Agriculture" Book Series with two Canadian colleagues at Springer since 2014.
Reconciling nature and the city, a highly artificial environment, is an art that is practised from the scale of the building to that of the suburban territory, including that of the neighbourhood.
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Scientific publications
Journal articles
Towards defining agricultural projects in towns: METH-EXPAU®, a multi-phase method
Territoire en mouvement. Revue de Géographie et d'Aménagement, 2023, 52
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Reports
CLIMALEG: Adaptation des productions légumières au changement climatique. Rapport de synthèse
INRAE. 2023
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Journal articles
Les Agriparcs urbains d’Alger : une modalité durable d’agriculture urbaine ?, Urban Agriparcks of Algiers : a sustainable modality of urban agriculture ?
Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège, 2022, 77 (2021), pp. 119-142
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Reports
Evaluation des services écosystémiques rendus par les micro-fermes urbaines et leurs sols - Bilan du projet de recherche semoirs [2018-2021]
[Rapport de recherche] INRAE; Agroparistech; Université de lorraine; Aix-Marseille Université; Institut d'aménagement et d'urbanisme de la région d'Ile-de-France (IAURIF). 2022, pp.22
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Journal articles
Adaptation of vegetable farmers to climate change in the Parisian region: a participatory approach using climate data
Acta Horticulturae, 2022, 1355, pp.463-468. ⟨10.17660/ActaHortic.2022.1355.59⟩
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Journal articles
Vers la définition des projets agricoles en ville : METH-EXPAU®, un itinéraire méthodologique, Towards defining agricultural projects in towns: METH-EXPAU®, a multi-phase method
Territoire en mouvement. Revue de Géographie et d'Aménagement, 2022, 52, pp.8065. ⟨10.4000/tem.8065⟩
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Pilot site
AgroParisTech's experimental rooftop has been used since 2012 to design urban agriculture systems in rooftop boxes, using urban residues as components of technosols, with the aim of studying the services provided by
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Practitioner group
The benefits and costs related to green infrastructure in cities need to be better understood through assessment tools that measure environmental impacts, for example, carbon emissions due to the transport of substrates,
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