University of Lausanne
Institute of geography and sustainability
Mouline - Géopolis 3612
CH-1015 Lausanne
Research projects
 | Legacy effects and historic forest recovery in the Ivindo landscape of Gabon Tropical forests cover about 10% of Earth's land surface, yet bear the legacies of human activities over time, inclu... | 2024-2028 |
 | Rural communs and the ecological transition: from the mountains to the sea The rural commons and their major ecosystemic contributions, forgotten by our urban societies, are too rarely mobilis... | 2024-2026 |
 | Community hunting management and governance (G2C2) This aims at facilitating and studying the management and community governance of hunting at the scale of all twenty-... | 2024-2025 |
 | The forgotten conservationists: self-governance, adequate recognition and support of commons to achieve sustainability and nature conservation. PhD of Sergio Couto, co-supervised with José María Martín Civantos, Universidad de Granada, Spain. The main goal of the PhD is to research different innovative initiatives and approaches for the adequate recognition ... | 2023-2027 |
 | Pratiques de consultations des peuples autochtones et communautés locales des aires protégées au Gabon dans le contexte de la convention sur la diversité biologique 2030 In the contexte of Gabon's committment to increase it's protected areas to 30% of the country by 2030, this thesis ex... | 2022-2026 |
 | 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... | 2022-2024 |
 | NARRatives On restored Water In this transdisciplinary and trans-sectorial project, we examine effective biodiversity conservation and climate cha... | 2022-2025 |
 | People and forests: Evaluating the impact of historical human activity on the present-day floristic composition of tropical rainforest ecosystems in western Central Africa The main objective of this collaboration will be to mutually support joint projects aiming to investiage the interact... | 2021-2023 |
 | Revisiting the commons in the light of current and future territorial challenges (COMETE) The objective of the COMETE project (Les COMmuns à l'aune des Enjeux TErritoriaux actuels et futurs) is to bring tog... | 2021-2022 |
 | ValPar.CH – Values of the ecological infrastructure in Swiss parks Commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), the interdisciplinary research team in charge of... | 2020-2024 |
 | Swiss regional nature parks as ecological infrastructure to maintain biodiversity and nature's contributions to people Understanding the impact of Swiss nature parks on the ecological infrastructure (EI), and how different people percei... | 2020-2024 |
 | Covid-19, Indigenous Peoples, Local communities and natural resource governance This research examines how the Covid-19 pandemic affected Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) in 2020-1,... | 2020-2022 |
 | Tree planting in Scotland This thesis examines Scotland's woodland expansion policy, focusing on 1) the impact of rescaling policy from the gov... | 2019-2023 |
 | European Commons and Biodiversity Recent advances in conservation policy, science and practice are starting to recognise territorial commons worldwide.... | 2019-2025 |
 | A multi-level study of how youth are engaging with conservation, through governance This Ph.D. project examines the role of youth in environmental conservation from the meta-level of governance to the ... | 2019-2024 |
 | Responsive Forest Governance Initiative The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) was a US$ 3 million, 4-year research and conservation application ... | 2011-2016 |
 | Conservation landscape histories Landscapes are dynamic places, bearing the legacies of the past, readable through its vegetation. Using a historical ... | 2005-2025 |