Christian Kull
Full professor

University of Lausanne
Institute of geography and sustainability
Mouline - Géopolis 3618
CH-1015 Lausanne
 
 
 
Phone +41 21 692 3067
Christian.Kull@unil.ch

Research projects

The governance of tree planting and forest restoration: whose decisions, what norms, and what outcomes?

We are losing natural forests at the rate of 10 million ha per year, and forest restoration is one part of the soluti...
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2023-2027
Fire regimes and ecosystem services in African biodiversity hotspots: can fire policies favoring climate change mitigation, biodiversity and local communities converge?

Wildfires largely impact climate, biodiversity and ecosystem services relevant for local communities. Thus, internati...
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2022-2024
‘Alternative Agricultures’ as Concrete Utopias Peasant Experiences, Experiments and Struggles in Switzerland and Morocco

My doctoral research focuses on 'alternative agricultures' in Switzerland and Morocco - forms of peasant agro-ecolog...
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2021-2026
When ecology goes to town. Imaginaries, production and effectiveness of urban ecology in Switzerland.

In 2015, two chairs in urban ecology were created in Switzerland, one at the University of Applied Science Rapperswil...
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2018-2022
Assessing the ‘nature’ of a ‘forest transition’ in Vietnam: ecosystem services and social-ecological resilience in locally managed forest landscapes

Southeast Asia remains a major hotspot of tropical deforestation. Yet, within this region, Vietnam has since the 1990...
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2017-2023
The politics of sustaining tuna, fisheries and livelihoods in the Western Indian Ocean. A marine political ecology perspective

This thesis aims to expand knowledge regarding the socio-economic and political aspects of the western Indian Ocean (...
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2015-2020
A weed by any other name? Comparing local knowledge and uses of environmental weeds around the Indian Ocean

This study investigates how indigenous and rural communities in Australia, India, Madagascar, and South Africa percei...
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2012-2016
Political ecology of a river: Indo-Swiss exploration of hydrosocial dynamics in the lower stretch of the Ganges

This joint research project aims to explore the hydrosocial cycle of the lower course of the River Ganges , elucidati...
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Governance of Cocoa Land-use Systems for Sustainable Socio-Ecological Transformation in the Asunafo-North of Ghana

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