Étienne Dufour
Membership: 2023
Member Bio
Étienne Dufour, a doctoral student in geography and land planning at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Laboratoire Géographie-Cités), under the supervision of Sabine Barles, works in the fields of historical geography, territorial ecology, and environmental and urban history. His research project focuses on urban metabolism and on the opening of biogeochemical cycles, mainly nitrogen and phosphorus cycles. In the context of the Parisian area, he focuses on how the old techniques of agricultural recycling of urban organic waste disappeared or were marginalised during the second half of the twentieth century. He benefitted from a research agreement with the city of Paris to start his doctorate. He is an associate member of the OCAPI research project and PIREN-Seine, which seek to understand and fight against the opening of biogeochemical cycles by studying and transforming urban-rural relations and promoting the use of human excreta and organic waste in agriculture.
