Christine AubrySenior Associate Researcher and Consultant Professor

AgroParisTech
Inrae

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.

Biodiversity

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

ISSUE

Nicolas Rouget, Christine Aubry, Joëlle Salomon Cavin, Giulia Giacche Agricultures urbaines au Sud et au Nord : conformer les agricultures, fabriquer la ville

Territoires en Mouvement, 2024

Book sections

Christophe-Toussaint Soulard, Christine Aubry L'agriculture a-t-elle sa place en ville ?

"Ressources" n°6, la revue INRAE, INRAE, pp.74-93, 2024

Book sections

Christophe Soulard, Christine Aubry, Elodie Régnier L'agriculture a-t-elle sa place en ville ?

"Ressources" n°6, la revue INRAE, 6, pp.74-93, 2024, ⟨10.17180/NV13-BZ97⟩

TRAD

Christine Aubry, Nicolas Rouget, Giulia Giacche, Joëlle Salomon Cavin For a more holistic vision of the links between agriculture and cities

2024, ⟨10.4000/12q5b⟩

Journal articles

Gabriel Dauchot, Christine Aubry, Alexandra Crème, Erica Dorr et al. Energy consumption as the main challenge faced by indoor farming to shorten supply chains

Cleaner and Circular Bioeconomy, 2024, 9, pp.100127. ⟨10.1016/j.clcb.2024.100127⟩

Conference papers

Daniela Sias, Giulia Giacche, Christine Aubry Agricultural practices in French prisons: towards better agro-ecological environments

Building movement and achieving transformation, AESOP; Universiteit Gent; HafenCity Universitat Hamburg; Institue for Agricultural and Fisheries Research; Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Jun 2024, Brussels and Ghent, Belgium

Pilot site

Vegetable garden on the rooftop of AgroParisTech

Vegetable rooftop at AgroParisTech

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

Nature in the city

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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