Francois-Mathieu Poupeau
VITA
François-Mathieu Poupeau is a sociologist and political scientist. He works as a research professor at the CNRS (LATTS) and also teaches at the École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France) and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (Morocco). His current research focuses on public policy and action in the field of energy and ecological transition in France. He is also working on decentralization reforms and the territorial state.
Mutterinstitut:
CNRS
Research
Forschungsthemen
Energy and environmental transition policies
Planning
Decentralisation
State reform
Multi-level governance
Research Project
François-Mathieu joined the Marc Bloch Center in early March 2026 for a five-month research stay. He will prepare a book provisionally titled “Governing the Energy Transition in France,” which aims, based on his work and that carried out on this subject in many disciplines (sociology, political science, geography), to offer an interpretation of the ongoing changes and what they “say” about the major transformations affecting the governance of the energy sector (role of the state, territorialization, individual behavior, etc.). He will also continue to work on ecological planning, comparing the French and German experiences.
Publications
Poupeau, François-Mathieu, “Defending the climate cause within the State: the Ministry of Ecology and the drafting of France’s National Low-Carbon Strategy (2017-2020)”, Environmental Politics, vol. 34, n°4, 2025, 602-624 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2024.2386795?af=R)
Poupeau, François-Mathieu, L’État en quête d’une stratégie énergie-climat, Paris, Presses des Mines, 2023 (https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04207799/file/strategie-energie-climat.pdf)
Poupeau, François-Mathieu, “Everything must change in order to stay as it is. The impossible decentralization of the electricity sector in France”, Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, vol. 120, 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2019.109597).
Poupeau, François-Mathieu, Analyser la gouvernance multi-niveaux, Grenoble, PUG, 2017.