Alejandro de Castro Mazarro

Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development

Germany

Working Groups: WG1

Scientific Expertise
Spatial development, land use, regional planning

Scientific Background
I am an architect and urban planner researching about sufficiency, understood as a relational approach to address global environmental injustices and climate change. In parallel, my research work analyzes the discourse of ecomodernism and postgrowth, as their implications influence how the built environment is produced. I am currently surveying sufficiency oriented urban design strategies, and in parallel I study the linkeages between sufficiency communities and political ecology.

Motivation
My motivation to be part of this working group is that I would like to broadly learn about different approaches to circularity strategies. In particular, I am interested in understanding how the embodied energy of industrial circularity processes is accounted for, in order to better assess the alignment of circularity to sufficiency frameworks.

Contribution
My contribution to this working group is that I can provide a perspective on circularity in the built environment, through a political ecological lenses that link to sufficiency. This social sciences approach to a technological and partly engineering problem, may be of relevance to this group. In addition, I can provide with clear examples of sufficiency-led urban best practices, which may benefit the group.