Jaboury Ghazoul
Biographic Data
| ID | 1574424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaboury Ghazoul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaboury |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghazoul |
| SIGNATURE | GHAZOUL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8319-1636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond top-down policymaking
Scotland aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2045, with afforestation and native woodland restoration as key strategies, targeting 25% woodland cover by 2050, or roughly 10,000 ha of new woodland annually. Much of this expansion depends on private landowners often supported by public subsidies. Yet landowners are often resistant to native woodland expansion on account of their prioritization of traditional land uses and perceived economic risks…
Socio-demographic disparities of heat exposure in affluent, aging, and diverse Swiss society
Heat intensity, duration, and probability are considered to assess heat exposure. • Municipalities with many foreigners and social-aid recipients face more heat exposure. • Socio-demographic heat disparities in Switzerland are largely explained by topography and urban form. • Heat exposure inequality should incorporate physical and environmental variables. As climate change intensifies, disparities in people’s heat exposure are emerging as a crit…
Influence of livelihood assets on biodiversity and household food security in tropical homegardens along urbanisation gradients
By 2050, 70% of the global population will reside in urban areas, raising concerns about food security and biodiversity loss. Tropical homegardens, a form of agroforestry, may have the potential to align concurrent demands for biodiversity conservation and food security in urban environments. Nevertheless, this depends on land-use decision-making strategies that are enabled by household livelihood assets. We examined which livelihood assets are a…
Participation in individual and collective agri-environmental schemes
Understanding the behavioural factors that influence farmers' intentions to participate in agri-environmental schemes is crucial for delivering sustainability in agricultural landscapes. Drawing on a qualitative synthesis approach, we seek to understand the underlying motivations behind farmers' decisions to engage with individual as well as collective agri-environmental schemes. We systematically map qualitative evidence on behavioural factors i…
Structuring the complexity of integrated landscape approaches into selectable, scalable, and measurable attributes
Integrated landscape approaches (ILA) aim to reconcile multiple, often competing, interests across agriculture, nature conservation, and other land uses. Recognized ILA design principles provide guidance for implementation, yet application remains challenging, and a strong performance evidence-base is yet to be formed. Through a critical literature review and focus group discussions with practitioners, we identified considerable diversity of ILA …
Glocal woodlands – The rescaling of forest governance in Scotland
As a response to global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, the UN has called for restoring a billion hectares of land. In recognition, both governments and the private sector have pledged to restore landscapes through planting millions of hectares of forests. Private sector investment is to play a critical role in meeting these goals, through instruments such as biodiversity offsetting, philanthropy, voluntary carbon markets, sustain…
In danger of co-option
Community ownership and management of land has gained prominence in environmental policy discussions, especially within land restoration debates. Within Scotland, community land ownership is promoted as a means to give communities greater say over land use decisions, receive a greater share of the benefits from land, and help deliver a just transition to the government of Scotland’s net-zero targets. These goals are supported by legal mechanisms …
Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking
Living with floating vegetation invasions
Invasions of water bodies by floating vegetation, including water hyacinth ( Eichhornia crassipes ), are a huge global problem for fisheries, hydropower generation, and transportation. We analyzed floating plant coverage on 20 reservoirs across the world’s tropics and subtropics, using > 30 year time-series of LANDSAT remote-sensing imagery. Despite decades of costly weed control, floating invasion severity is increasing. Floating plant coverage …
The Global Forest Transition as a Human Affair
Forests across the world stand at a crossroads where climate and land-use changes are shaping their future. Despite demonstrations of political will and global efforts, forest loss, fragmentation, and degradation continue unabated. No clear evidence exists to suggest that these initiatives are working. A key reason for this apparent ineffectiveness could lie in the failure to recognize the agency of all stakeholders involved. Landscapes do not ha…
Freeing land from biofuel production through microalgal cultivation in the Neotropical region
Biofuel production is a key strategy for reducing CO 2 emissions globally and is expected to increase substantially in the coming decades, particularly in tropical developing countries. The adoption of sustainable biofuel production technologies that do not place large demands on agricultural or forested lands, has the potential to make a substantial contribution to decreasing greenhouse gas emissions while reducing biodiversity losses and degrad…
Road expansion and persistence in forests of the Congo Basin
An innovation perspective to climate change adaptation in coffee systems
Climate change is expected to have strong implications for smallholder coffee farmers and implementing adaptation measures would lessen their vulnerabilities. Adaptation measures have been identified in literature, but how these can be implemented remains unclear. Current certification programmes have the potential to provide guidance on how sustainability criteria can be addressed and taken up by farmers. We identify climate change adaptation op…
Reconciling certification and intact forest landscape conservation
Ecohydrological changes after tropical forest conversion to oil palm
Given their ability to provide food, raw material and alleviate poverty, oil palm (OP) plantations are driving significant losses of biodiversity-rich tropical forests, fuelling a heated debate on ecosystem degradation and conservation. However, while OP-induced carbon emissions and biodiversity losses have received significant attention, OP water requirements have been marginalized and little is known on the ecohydrological changes (water and su…
Environmental Impacts of Large‐Scale Oil Palm Enterprises Exceed that of Smallholdings in Indonesia
The expansion of large‐scale oil palm plantations in Indonesia has taken a heavy toll on forests, biodiversity, and carbon stocks but little is known about the environmental impacts from the smallholder sector. Here, we compare the magnitude of forest and carbon loss attributable to smallholdings, private enterprises, and state‐owned oil palm plantations in Sumatra. During 2000–2010, oil palm development accounted for the loss of 4,744 ha of mang…
Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses
“Landscape approaches” seek to provide tools and concepts for allocating and managing land to achieve social, economic, and environmental objectives in areas where agriculture, mining, and other productive land uses compete with environmental and biodiversity goals. Here we synthesize the current consensus on landscape approaches. This is based on published literature and a consensus-building process to define good practice and is validated by a …
Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance
Honeybees Can't Do It Alone The majority of food crops require pollination to set fruit with the honeybee providing a pollination workhorse, with both feral and managed populations an integral component of crop management (see the Perspective by Tylianakis , published online 28 February). Garibaldi et al. (p. 1608 , published online 28 February) now show that wild pollinators are also a vital part of our crop systems. In more than 40 important cr…
Oil palm expansion transforms tropical landscapes and livelihoods
Remotely sensed evidence of tropical peatland conversion to oil palm
Rising global demands for food and biofuels are driving forest clearance in the tropics. Oil-palm expansion contributes to biodiversity declines and carbon emissions in Southeast Asia. However, the magnitudes of these impacts remain largely unquantified until now. We produce a 250-m spatial resolution map of closed canopy oil-palm plantations in the lowlands of Peninsular Malaysia (2 million ha), Borneo (2.4 million ha), and Sumatra (3.9 million …
The Use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Forest Management
Rist, L., R. Uma Shaanker, E. J. Milner-Gulland, and J. Ghazoul. 2010. The use of traditional ecological knowledge in forest management: an example from India. Ecology and Society 15(1): 3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03290-150103
The Ecosystem Service Controversy
Recognising the Complexities of Ecosystem Management and the Ecosystem Service Concept
Ecosystem management emphasises ecosystem service concepts in order to improve land management and to justify nature conservation. This approach rests on the assumption that conserving ecosystem services can deliver net benefits for human welfare in terms of economic development. To retain credibility, the advocates of ecosystem service concepts must acknowledge the constraints that may limit the reliability of this assumption, including trade-of…
Challenges for Forestry and Forest Research – How to Promote Effective Cooperation Between Science and Practice? Herausforderungen für Forstwirtschaft und forstliche Forschung – Wie können Wissenschaf…
Wie vielerorts steht in der Schweiz das Waldmanagement angesichts des Klimawandels und gesellschaftlicher Änderungen vor großen Herausforderungen. Die verschiedenen Ansprüche an den Wald wie rentable Holznutzung, Risikominderung, Freizeit oder Erhaltung der Biodiversität bergen ein Konfliktpotenzial. Wie können und sollen Forstwirtschaft und forstliche Forschung die Probleme angehen
Road expansion and persistence in forests of the Congo Basin
The Use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Forest Management
Rist, L., R. Uma Shaanker, E. J. Milner-Gulland, and J. Ghazoul. 2010. The use of traditional ecological knowledge in forest management: an example from India. Ecology and Society 15(1): 3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03290-150103
Participation in individual and collective agri-environmental schemes
Understanding the behavioural factors that influence farmers' intentions to participate in agri-environmental schemes is crucial for delivering sustainability in agricultural landscapes. Drawing on a qualitative synthesis approach, we seek to understand the underlying motivations behind farmers' decisions to engage with individual as well as collective agri-environmental schemes. We systematically map qualitative evidence on behavioural factors i…
In danger of co-option
Community ownership and management of land has gained prominence in environmental policy discussions, especially within land restoration debates. Within Scotland, community land ownership is promoted as a means to give communities greater say over land use decisions, receive a greater share of the benefits from land, and help deliver a just transition to the government of Scotland’s net-zero targets. These goals are supported by legal mechanisms …
An innovation perspective to climate change adaptation in coffee systems
Climate change is expected to have strong implications for smallholder coffee farmers and implementing adaptation measures would lessen their vulnerabilities. Adaptation measures have been identified in literature, but how these can be implemented remains unclear. Current certification programmes have the potential to provide guidance on how sustainability criteria can be addressed and taken up by farmers. We identify climate change adaptation op…
Glocal woodlands – The rescaling of forest governance in Scotland
As a response to global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, the UN has called for restoring a billion hectares of land. In recognition, both governments and the private sector have pledged to restore landscapes through planting millions of hectares of forests. Private sector investment is to play a critical role in meeting these goals, through instruments such as biodiversity offsetting, philanthropy, voluntary carbon markets, sustain…
Structuring the complexity of integrated landscape approaches into selectable, scalable, and measurable attributes
Integrated landscape approaches (ILA) aim to reconcile multiple, often competing, interests across agriculture, nature conservation, and other land uses. Recognized ILA design principles provide guidance for implementation, yet application remains challenging, and a strong performance evidence-base is yet to be formed. Through a critical literature review and focus group discussions with practitioners, we identified considerable diversity of ILA …
Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking
Reconciling certification and intact forest landscape conservation
Recognising the Complexities of Ecosystem Management and the Ecosystem Service Concept
Ecosystem management emphasises ecosystem service concepts in order to improve land management and to justify nature conservation. This approach rests on the assumption that conserving ecosystem services can deliver net benefits for human welfare in terms of economic development. To retain credibility, the advocates of ecosystem service concepts must acknowledge the constraints that may limit the reliability of this assumption, including trade-of…
Challenges for Forestry and Forest Research – How to Promote Effective Cooperation Between Science and Practice? Herausforderungen für Forstwirtschaft und forstliche Forschung – Wie können Wissenschaf…
Wie vielerorts steht in der Schweiz das Waldmanagement angesichts des Klimawandels und gesellschaftlicher Änderungen vor großen Herausforderungen. Die verschiedenen Ansprüche an den Wald wie rentable Holznutzung, Risikominderung, Freizeit oder Erhaltung der Biodiversität bergen ein Konfliktpotenzial. Wie können und sollen Forstwirtschaft und forstliche Forschung die Probleme angehen
The Ecosystem Service Controversy
The Use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Forest Management
Rist, L., R. Uma Shaanker, E. J. Milner-Gulland, and J. Ghazoul. 2010. The use of traditional ecological knowledge in forest management: an example from India. Ecology and Society 15(1): 3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03290-150103
Remotely sensed evidence of tropical peatland conversion to oil palm
Rising global demands for food and biofuels are driving forest clearance in the tropics. Oil-palm expansion contributes to biodiversity declines and carbon emissions in Southeast Asia. However, the magnitudes of these impacts remain largely unquantified until now. We produce a 250-m spatial resolution map of closed canopy oil-palm plantations in the lowlands of Peninsular Malaysia (2 million ha), Borneo (2.4 million ha), and Sumatra (3.9 million …
Oil palm expansion transforms tropical landscapes and livelihoods
Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses
“Landscape approaches” seek to provide tools and concepts for allocating and managing land to achieve social, economic, and environmental objectives in areas where agriculture, mining, and other productive land uses compete with environmental and biodiversity goals. Here we synthesize the current consensus on landscape approaches. This is based on published literature and a consensus-building process to define good practice and is validated by a …
Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance
Honeybees Can't Do It Alone The majority of food crops require pollination to set fruit with the honeybee providing a pollination workhorse, with both feral and managed populations an integral component of crop management (see the Perspective by Tylianakis , published online 28 February). Garibaldi et al. (p. 1608 , published online 28 February) now show that wild pollinators are also a vital part of our crop systems. In more than 40 important cr…
Environmental Impacts of Large‐Scale Oil Palm Enterprises Exceed that of Smallholdings in Indonesia
The expansion of large‐scale oil palm plantations in Indonesia has taken a heavy toll on forests, biodiversity, and carbon stocks but little is known about the environmental impacts from the smallholder sector. Here, we compare the magnitude of forest and carbon loss attributable to smallholdings, private enterprises, and state‐owned oil palm plantations in Sumatra. During 2000–2010, oil palm development accounted for the loss of 4,744 ha of mang…
Ecohydrological changes after tropical forest conversion to oil palm
Given their ability to provide food, raw material and alleviate poverty, oil palm (OP) plantations are driving significant losses of biodiversity-rich tropical forests, fuelling a heated debate on ecosystem degradation and conservation. However, while OP-induced carbon emissions and biodiversity losses have received significant attention, OP water requirements have been marginalized and little is known on the ecohydrological changes (water and su…
Road expansion and persistence in forests of the Congo Basin
An innovation perspective to climate change adaptation in coffee systems
Climate change is expected to have strong implications for smallholder coffee farmers and implementing adaptation measures would lessen their vulnerabilities. Adaptation measures have been identified in literature, but how these can be implemented remains unclear. Current certification programmes have the potential to provide guidance on how sustainability criteria can be addressed and taken up by farmers. We identify climate change adaptation op…
Reconciling certification and intact forest landscape conservation
The Global Forest Transition as a Human Affair
Forests across the world stand at a crossroads where climate and land-use changes are shaping their future. Despite demonstrations of political will and global efforts, forest loss, fragmentation, and degradation continue unabated. No clear evidence exists to suggest that these initiatives are working. A key reason for this apparent ineffectiveness could lie in the failure to recognize the agency of all stakeholders involved. Landscapes do not ha…
Freeing land from biofuel production through microalgal cultivation in the Neotropical region
Biofuel production is a key strategy for reducing CO 2 emissions globally and is expected to increase substantially in the coming decades, particularly in tropical developing countries. The adoption of sustainable biofuel production technologies that do not place large demands on agricultural or forested lands, has the potential to make a substantial contribution to decreasing greenhouse gas emissions while reducing biodiversity losses and degrad…
Living with floating vegetation invasions
Invasions of water bodies by floating vegetation, including water hyacinth ( Eichhornia crassipes ), are a huge global problem for fisheries, hydropower generation, and transportation. We analyzed floating plant coverage on 20 reservoirs across the world’s tropics and subtropics, using > 30 year time-series of LANDSAT remote-sensing imagery. Despite decades of costly weed control, floating invasion severity is increasing. Floating plant coverage …
Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking
Structuring the complexity of integrated landscape approaches into selectable, scalable, and measurable attributes
Integrated landscape approaches (ILA) aim to reconcile multiple, often competing, interests across agriculture, nature conservation, and other land uses. Recognized ILA design principles provide guidance for implementation, yet application remains challenging, and a strong performance evidence-base is yet to be formed. Through a critical literature review and focus group discussions with practitioners, we identified considerable diversity of ILA …
Glocal woodlands – The rescaling of forest governance in Scotland
As a response to global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, the UN has called for restoring a billion hectares of land. In recognition, both governments and the private sector have pledged to restore landscapes through planting millions of hectares of forests. Private sector investment is to play a critical role in meeting these goals, through instruments such as biodiversity offsetting, philanthropy, voluntary carbon markets, sustain…
In danger of co-option
Community ownership and management of land has gained prominence in environmental policy discussions, especially within land restoration debates. Within Scotland, community land ownership is promoted as a means to give communities greater say over land use decisions, receive a greater share of the benefits from land, and help deliver a just transition to the government of Scotland’s net-zero targets. These goals are supported by legal mechanisms …
Influence of livelihood assets on biodiversity and household food security in tropical homegardens along urbanisation gradients
By 2050, 70% of the global population will reside in urban areas, raising concerns about food security and biodiversity loss. Tropical homegardens, a form of agroforestry, may have the potential to align concurrent demands for biodiversity conservation and food security in urban environments. Nevertheless, this depends on land-use decision-making strategies that are enabled by household livelihood assets. We examined which livelihood assets are a…
Participation in individual and collective agri-environmental schemes
Understanding the behavioural factors that influence farmers' intentions to participate in agri-environmental schemes is crucial for delivering sustainability in agricultural landscapes. Drawing on a qualitative synthesis approach, we seek to understand the underlying motivations behind farmers' decisions to engage with individual as well as collective agri-environmental schemes. We systematically map qualitative evidence on behavioural factors i…
Socio-demographic disparities of heat exposure in affluent, aging, and diverse Swiss society
Heat intensity, duration, and probability are considered to assess heat exposure. • Municipalities with many foreigners and social-aid recipients face more heat exposure. • Socio-demographic heat disparities in Switzerland are largely explained by topography and urban form. • Heat exposure inequality should incorporate physical and environmental variables. As climate change intensifies, disparities in people’s heat exposure are emerging as a crit…
Beyond top-down policymaking
Scotland aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2045, with afforestation and native woodland restoration as key strategies, targeting 25% woodland cover by 2050, or roughly 10,000 ha of new woodland annually. Much of this expansion depends on private landowners often supported by public subsidies. Yet landowners are often resistant to native woodland expansion on account of their prioritization of traditional land uses and perceived economic risks…
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (14 works) · Environmental Science (14 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Agroforestry (9 works) · Biology (9 works) · Environmental resource management (8 works) · Political science (8 works)