Sabine Barles
Professor of urban planning and development
Sabine Barles is a professor of urban planning and development at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a researcher at the UMR Géographie-Cités, where she headed the CRIA team.
Her research focuses on the history of technology and the urban environment, with a particular emphasis on urban metabolism and territorial ecology. Grounded in a historical perspective, her work examines the formation of the dominant socioecological system and the challenges of transition.
Barles has developed innovative methodologies to quantify urban metabolism and assess the environmental footprints of territories. She has contributed to territorial foresight exercises, notably for the Seine basin and the Paris metropolitan area. Recognized for her book L’Invention des déchets urbains: France 1790–1970 (The Invention of Urban Waste: France 1790–1970) (2005), her recent publications include chapters in Mondes postcapitalistes (Postcapitalist Worlds) (2026) and Dictionnaire critique de l’anthropocène (Critical Dictionary of the Anthropocene) (2020), as well as articles in journals such as Revue d’Économie Régionale & Urbaine and Flux.-
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