 | Participatory action research project: Peasant agro-ecology - Dialogue between science and society and cross-perspectives between Moroccan and Swiss actors
The aim of this project is to create a unique space bringing together scientists and farmers from Switzerland and Mor...
More... | 2024-2024 |
 | 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...
More... | 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...
More... | 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...
More... | 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...
More... | 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...
More... | 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 (...
More... | 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...
More... | 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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