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Hugo d'Assenza-David
PhD Candidate
Center for International Studies (CERI), Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)
Research Interest(s): Public action, Governance, Risk, Planning, State, Engineering sciences, Cities and territories, Anthropocene
Discipline(s): Political Science
Research Group(s): Public Policy and Transformations of the State
Biography
Hugo d'Assenza-David is preparing a thesis in comparative politics, at the intersection of urban studies, public policy analysis, and critical sociology of risk. In his work, he compares the development of accounting systems for material flows and their integration into territorial planning strategies in the metropolitan regions of Paris and Amsterdam. Using public policy instruments as a starting point, Hugo analyzes the construction of " metabolic risk," i.e., the integration of the biogeochemical vulnerabilities of territories into governance structures.
Thesis topic
When substance matters: the construction of metabolic risk and the governance of territorial planning in the Paris and Amsterdam regions Abstract
Teaching
Navigating the Anthropocene: Scenarios and Strategies for Environmental Planning (TD - 24HETD - M2 Sciences Po - Ecole des Affaires Publiques - anglais)
Climat et Controverses (TD - 2*18HETD - L2 Centrale Supélec - français)
Enjeux sociaux, enjeux spatiaux (TD - 18HETD - L2 Géographie - Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne - français)
Encadrement de mémoire (15 étudiants - L3 ESPOL - Université Catholique de Lille - anglais et français)
Comparative Politics (TD - 2*24HETD - L2 Sciences Po - anglais)
Public Policy (TD - 2*24HETD - L2 ESPOL - Université Catholique de Lille - anglais)
Introduction to Political Science (TD - 2*24HETD - L1 Sciences Po - anglais)
AWARDS
2nd AIRE Student Research Award on the Environment 2022 for research thesis Research - Sciences Po.
publications
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Zisopoulos, F. K., Fath, B. D., de Oliveira, B. M., Toboso-Chavero, S., d'Assenza-David, H., de Souza, V. M., ... & de Jong, M. (2025). Towards an ecological metaphor for regenerative circular economies. Ecological Economics, 231, 108545.
Joss, S., d'Assenza-David, H., & Serra, L. (2022). Eco-neighborhoods and the question of locational advantage: A socio-spatial analysis of French ‘ÉcoQuartiers’. Cities, 126, 103643.
Chapters
d’Assenza H., & Mazeaud, A. (2025). Territoire. Dictionnaire d'écologie politique (No. 1). Presses de Sciences Po.
Book reviews
d’Assenza-David, H. (2025). Bourdieu in the city: Challenging urban theory, by Loïc Wacquant: Cambridge, Polity Press, 2023.
d’Assenza-David, H. (2024). Joan Cortinas Muñoz, Brian O’Neill, Eliza Benites-Gambirazio, Franck Poupeau (2023). Le Champ des politiques hydriques. Enquête sur la gestion de la sécheresse dans l’Ouest des États-Unis, Vulaines-sur-Seine, Éditions du Croquant. Gouvernement et action publique, 13(2), 174-177.
d'Assenza-David, H. (2024). Une feuille de route pour une planification territoriale des Trentes Turbulentes. Sur les chantiers de l’adaptation de nos territoires. Pouvoirs Locaux: les cahiers de la décentralisation/Institut de la décentralisation, (126), 103-107.
Publications of prospective research
d'Assenza-David, H. (2023). Shifting circular: urban infrastructure and policy changes towards renewed territorial metabolisms. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ GmbH), on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Environment of the Federal Republic of Germany.
d'Assenza-David, H. (2021). Bruxelles: une ville productive et résidentielle. Editions du PUCA, Direction Générale de l’Aménagement du Logement et de la Nature (DGALN).
Research Notes
Barrier, E., d’Assenza-David, H., Haderbache, B., Mina C., Morchain, M., Quijano, T., & Roussilhe, G. (2021). 5G controversies in European cities. Chaire Ville et Numérique. Ecole Urbaine de Sciences Po (projet collectif)
