Angéline Chartier

Postdoctoral researcher at Wageningen University | Netherlands

Angéline Chartier is a researcher at the intersection of circular economy in the built environment and its governance at the municipality level. Managing three European urban living labs and by also coordinating diverse stakeholder involvement, she aims to identify the complexity of any initial conditions, issues, and problems involved in shifting to circularity, but also puts an emphasis on understanding why. In doing so, Angéline extrapolates the levers and solutions needed to fix the problem, leading her to develop informed policy recommendations. Despite there being many policy instruments designed to enable the circular economy in the built environment, she says, a lot of barriers remained. It is therefore important to understand them and analyse the gap between ambitions and the reality of their application, in order to reduce it. At Urban Future, Angéline will up healthy debate and reflection about the use of measurement tools, their limitations, assessment methodologies, and what responsibilities we have when we get the results. This will be presented in the context of a case study: a tender procedure from the municipality of Nijmegen, Netherlands, that has been effective in establishing circular principles in an urban project by incorporating them at an early stage of the process’ design.