Holder of a PhD in environmental studies, Aurore conducts interdisciplinary research on the justice dimensions of social-ecological transformations and their translation into the notion of ‘just transition’. She coordinates a prospective research project on just transition to carbon neutrality and climate resilience in Brussels and is co-editor of the Report of the High Committee for a Just Transition in Belgium.

Aurore Fransolet

Description

Aurore Fransolet is a postdoctoral researcher in the Socio-Environmental Dynamics Research Group (Faculty of Science) and at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

Her current work focuses on the dimensions of justice in social-ecological transformations and their translation into the notion of ‘just transition’. In her research, Aurore develops an interdisciplinary approach articulating theoretical and conceptual frameworks from social ecology, environmental justice and sustainability transitions. She employs various futures studies tools and methods.

Aurore coordinates the project ‘Coping with Climate Debt through Just Transition’ (COGITO), a prospective research project aimed at building and analysing scenarios for a just transition to carbon neutrality and climate resilience in the Brussels-Capital Region by 2050.

She co-edits the Report of the High Committee for a Just Transition for the attention of the Federal Minister for Climate, Environment, Sustainable Development and the Green Deal in view of the Just Transition Conference in Belgium.

Since 2022, Aurore has been a member of the contact group on ‘social and ecological justice’ (JUSTES) of the Scientific Research Fund (FNRS).



Fields of activities
  • Social-ecological justice and inequalities
  • Conceptualization, visions and governance of just transition
  • Governance of exnovation and just transition
  • Just transition scenarios towards carbon neutrality and climate resilience
  • Futures studies, knowledge hybridization and just transition
Teaching and activities
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND  
Aurore has an interdisciplinary background in environmental studies (PhD 2019 ; Ma, 2013 - Magna cum laude) and chemistry (Ba, 2010 - Magna cum laude).  She completed her doctoral thesis at Centre for Sustainable Development Studies (ULB) under the supervision of Prof. Tom Bauler, thanks to a funding from the FNRS. Her doctoral research explores the role of foresight for knowing and governing climate problem through the case study of low-carbon scenarios in Belgium.
Her doctoral thesis received the Prize for Francophone Theses in Futures Studies (Foundation 2100 and Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, 2022) and her Master's thesis the Philippe Bourdeau Prize (ULB, 2013).
Aurore has completed several research stays at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a visit at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) in Paris. 

TEACHING

  • UCLouvain, lecture on ‘Foresight to Tackle Climate Change’ as part of the Interuniversity Certificate in Foresight Analysis, since 2022.
  • ULB, co-supervision and participation in the jury of theses of the Master in environmental studies, since 2016.
  • ULB, supervision of students as part of the ‘Interdisciplinary Project I’ course of the Master in environmental studies, 2015-2021.
  • ULB. Teaching of the ‘Chemistry’ chapter of the course ‘Basic knowledge of science’ of the Master in environmental studies, 2015-2020.
AUTRES ACTIVITES

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Press

Research projects

Current Projects

Past Projects
Publications

Aurore’s publications are available on ResearchGate.

Recent Publications

 

Mail: aurore.fransolet@ulb.be

Office: D.B.155 (Solbosch Campus)

Postal address: Université libre de Bruxelles (cp130/03), Avenue FD Roosevelt 50, B-1050 Brussels

Updated on October 30, 2023