Louise Guibrunet
Biographic Data
| ID | 2450446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Guibrunet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Guibrunet |
| SIGNATURE | GUIBRUNET L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1377-4852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Data requirements for a systematic analysis of urban food flows and their sustainability outcomes
This paper systematically assesses the quantity and quality of existing secondary data on urban food flows, as well as its potential use to analyse the impacts of such flows on human health and environmental sustainability. To do so, the authors built a digital, open-access platform to systematise, store and visualise urban food flows data. Given the importance of systematically understanding diverse urban food systems, the objective of the platf…
Spatial planning for a popular circular economy
This article argues that a popular circular economy already exists in many world cities, and that this economy can be enhanced through spatial planning. We use Mexico City as a case study, and analyse its popular circular economy, defined as the family micro-businesses which contribute to enhancing the circularity of everyday objects by enabling their reuse, repair, refurbishment or recycling. We first present a panorama of this economy using the…
Fire governance research in the tropics
Fire is a highly relevant governance challenge in the tropics: altered fire regimes, among other phenomena, threaten the persistence of various ecosystems. Fire is also widely used by smallholders. Yet, wildfires can put people's livelihoods in danger through direct damages and by impoverishing ecosystem services. Conventional approaches have sought to suppress any type of fire in the landscape. However, since the late twentieth century, research…
Street vendors as actors of a sustainable food system—The case of Mexico City
In this paper, we explore the role of street vendors in enhancing access to sustainable food, using Mexico City as a case study. Through observational fieldwork, we quantify and spatialize the street food offer of two municipalities, which we compare to food offer in outlets (shops and restaurants). We use Mexican traditional food as a proxy for a sustainable diet. Street vendors represent 55% of the food retailers present in the study area. Over…
Sustainability-aligned values
Modern environmental thought has always involved normative claims about the values needed for sustainability. This has often played out in debates between proponents of anthropocentric and ecocentric ways of valuing nature. More recently, there has been a flourishing of interest in relational and pluricentric ways of valuing nature, coinciding with a “turn to values” in the sustainability literature. In this paper we explore the meaning and use o…
Diverse values of nature for sustainability
Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being 1,2 , addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understandin…
Reclaiming traditional food systems in alternative food networks. Insights from Mexico city peri-urban agriculture
In the literature on how to make food systems just and sustainable, we often look at Alternative Food Networks (AFN) as a way forward. AFNs are initiatives that pose alternatives to conventional food systems (driven by productivism and harmful to human and environmental health). Despite this broad understanding of what AFNs can be, in practice, most cases presented in the literature look surprisingly alike. In this article, we challenge the schol…
The current and potential role of urban metabolism studies to analyze the role of food in urban sustainability
Food supply chains are essential for urban sustainability. To reflect on the state of knowledge on urban food flows in urban metabolism research, and the actual and potential role of urban metabolism studies to tackle food sustainability in cities, we systematically review scientific research on food from an urban metabolism perspective and apply statistical and thematic analyses. The analysis of 89 studies provides insights as to the relation be…
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature
Aiming at just and sustainable futures for biodiversity conservation requires clarity concerning how justice relates to the diverse values of nature. By drawing upon and expanding on the recent Values Assessment of Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, this article discusses the implications of the diverse values of nature for different dimensions of justice. It also addresses how achieving transformative change that …
Assessing climate change risk
The reformist sustainability discourse and the exclusion of the informal economy from Mexico City’s environmental policies
The crucial role of the informal economy in urban environmental management is yet to be acknowledged in policy-making. This paper explores the sustainability discourses that shape urban environmental policies, and how they relate to different conceptualisations of the informal economy. Focusing on Mexico City, this paper analyses the discourses of policy-makers and their reflection in the city’s waste management plan. Results show reformist and r…
Beyond participation
In this article, we explore why conservation schemes that have positive outcomes through the participation of local communities cannot necessarily be deemed as just. We observe that recognition (understood as inclusion and respect) of local communities’ value‐systems, a key factor towards environmental justice, is not often achieved in conservation governance. We build our argument on the authors’ extensive research on four Mexican forest areas a…
The interplay of tacit and explicit knowledge in the informal economy
How does the informal economy innovate? Innovation depends, in part, on the generation and use of distinct types of knowledge. Yet, very little is known on the use of knowledge within the informal economy. Focusing on the micro-scale of informal family businesses, this article documents the case of a recyclables shop in Mexico City, and explores how knowledge is used to develop innovative practices. This case is atypical, at least with respect to…
Food for degrowth
Degrowth is an idea that challenges the hegemony of economic growth in our contemporary society (Demaria & Latouche, 2019). Since the term was coined by Andre Gorz in the 1970s, degrowth has become
Energy profiles among urban elite households in Mozambique
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability
Flows, system boundaries and the politics of urban metabolism
Sustainable Urban Metabolism
Urban metabolism is the study of material flows through cities. Academics have recently acknowledged the use of the metaphor not only to conceptualize urban sustainability but also to evaluate it
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability
Flows, system boundaries and the politics of urban metabolism
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature
Aiming at just and sustainable futures for biodiversity conservation requires clarity concerning how justice relates to the diverse values of nature. By drawing upon and expanding on the recent Values Assessment of Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, this article discusses the implications of the diverse values of nature for different dimensions of justice. It also addresses how achieving transformative change that …
Energy profiles among urban elite households in Mozambique
The interplay of tacit and explicit knowledge in the informal economy
How does the informal economy innovate? Innovation depends, in part, on the generation and use of distinct types of knowledge. Yet, very little is known on the use of knowledge within the informal economy. Focusing on the micro-scale of informal family businesses, this article documents the case of a recyclables shop in Mexico City, and explores how knowledge is used to develop innovative practices. This case is atypical, at least with respect to…
Food for degrowth
Degrowth is an idea that challenges the hegemony of economic growth in our contemporary society (Demaria & Latouche, 2019). Since the term was coined by Andre Gorz in the 1970s, degrowth has become
Sustainable Urban Metabolism
Urban metabolism is the study of material flows through cities. Academics have recently acknowledged the use of the metaphor not only to conceptualize urban sustainability but also to evaluate it
Flows, system boundaries and the politics of urban metabolism
Energy profiles among urban elite households in Mozambique
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability
Assessing climate change risk
The reformist sustainability discourse and the exclusion of the informal economy from Mexico City’s environmental policies
The crucial role of the informal economy in urban environmental management is yet to be acknowledged in policy-making. This paper explores the sustainability discourses that shape urban environmental policies, and how they relate to different conceptualisations of the informal economy. Focusing on Mexico City, this paper analyses the discourses of policy-makers and their reflection in the city’s waste management plan. Results show reformist and r…
Beyond participation
In this article, we explore why conservation schemes that have positive outcomes through the participation of local communities cannot necessarily be deemed as just. We observe that recognition (understood as inclusion and respect) of local communities’ value‐systems, a key factor towards environmental justice, is not often achieved in conservation governance. We build our argument on the authors’ extensive research on four Mexican forest areas a…
The interplay of tacit and explicit knowledge in the informal economy
How does the informal economy innovate? Innovation depends, in part, on the generation and use of distinct types of knowledge. Yet, very little is known on the use of knowledge within the informal economy. Focusing on the micro-scale of informal family businesses, this article documents the case of a recyclables shop in Mexico City, and explores how knowledge is used to develop innovative practices. This case is atypical, at least with respect to…
Food for degrowth
Degrowth is an idea that challenges the hegemony of economic growth in our contemporary society (Demaria & Latouche, 2019). Since the term was coined by Andre Gorz in the 1970s, degrowth has become
Diverse values of nature for sustainability
Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being 1,2 , addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understandin…
Reclaiming traditional food systems in alternative food networks. Insights from Mexico city peri-urban agriculture
In the literature on how to make food systems just and sustainable, we often look at Alternative Food Networks (AFN) as a way forward. AFNs are initiatives that pose alternatives to conventional food systems (driven by productivism and harmful to human and environmental health). Despite this broad understanding of what AFNs can be, in practice, most cases presented in the literature look surprisingly alike. In this article, we challenge the schol…
The current and potential role of urban metabolism studies to analyze the role of food in urban sustainability
Food supply chains are essential for urban sustainability. To reflect on the state of knowledge on urban food flows in urban metabolism research, and the actual and potential role of urban metabolism studies to tackle food sustainability in cities, we systematically review scientific research on food from an urban metabolism perspective and apply statistical and thematic analyses. The analysis of 89 studies provides insights as to the relation be…
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature
Aiming at just and sustainable futures for biodiversity conservation requires clarity concerning how justice relates to the diverse values of nature. By drawing upon and expanding on the recent Values Assessment of Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, this article discusses the implications of the diverse values of nature for different dimensions of justice. It also addresses how achieving transformative change that …
Fire governance research in the tropics
Fire is a highly relevant governance challenge in the tropics: altered fire regimes, among other phenomena, threaten the persistence of various ecosystems. Fire is also widely used by smallholders. Yet, wildfires can put people's livelihoods in danger through direct damages and by impoverishing ecosystem services. Conventional approaches have sought to suppress any type of fire in the landscape. However, since the late twentieth century, research…
Street vendors as actors of a sustainable food system—The case of Mexico City
In this paper, we explore the role of street vendors in enhancing access to sustainable food, using Mexico City as a case study. Through observational fieldwork, we quantify and spatialize the street food offer of two municipalities, which we compare to food offer in outlets (shops and restaurants). We use Mexican traditional food as a proxy for a sustainable diet. Street vendors represent 55% of the food retailers present in the study area. Over…
Sustainability-aligned values
Modern environmental thought has always involved normative claims about the values needed for sustainability. This has often played out in debates between proponents of anthropocentric and ecocentric ways of valuing nature. More recently, there has been a flourishing of interest in relational and pluricentric ways of valuing nature, coinciding with a “turn to values” in the sustainability literature. In this paper we explore the meaning and use o…
Data requirements for a systematic analysis of urban food flows and their sustainability outcomes
This paper systematically assesses the quantity and quality of existing secondary data on urban food flows, as well as its potential use to analyse the impacts of such flows on human health and environmental sustainability. To do so, the authors built a digital, open-access platform to systematise, store and visualise urban food flows data. Given the importance of systematically understanding diverse urban food systems, the objective of the platf…
Spatial planning for a popular circular economy
This article argues that a popular circular economy already exists in many world cities, and that this economy can be enhanced through spatial planning. We use Mexico City as a case study, and analyse its popular circular economy, defined as the family micro-businesses which contribute to enhancing the circularity of everyday objects by enabling their reuse, repair, refurbishment or recycling. We first present a panorama of this economy using the…
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