Hisham Zerriffi
Biographic Data
| ID | 235322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hisham Zerriffi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hisham |
| FAMILY NAME | Zerriffi |
| SIGNATURE | ZERRIFFI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4890-2575 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Unveiling regulatory feedback effects in power grid digitalization and network operation
Digitalization plays a critical role in the transformation of electricity distribution systems, enabling greater efficiency, flexibility, and integration of renewable energy sources. However, Distribution System Operators (DSOs) often face regulatory and economic barriers that hinder investments in digital technologies. This study adopts a qualitative System Dynamics (SD) approach to explore the complex, feedback-driven interactions between regul…
Green jobs and just transition
The European Green Deal promises a “just and inclusive transition” to net-zero emissions by 2050, but employment implications remain poorly quantified. We address how Europe's net-zero transition affects energy sector employment and whether current policies ensure a just transition for affected workers. While the net-zero transition creates substantial net employment gains, we argue that significant mismatches in skills, geography, and timing req…
Mitigation deterrence and unrealistic expectations
Forest offsets decrease carbon prices but deter renewables, carbon capture, and innovation. • Forest-sink losses raise mitigation costs up to 0.5 percentage points versus no offsets. • Low-income regions face up to two percent higher costs when forest offsets fail. • Offset reliance creates moral hazard and undermines fair paths to net zero. This study examines the economic and societal impacts of using Forest Carbon Offsets (FCO) as a negative e…
The impact of LPG consumption on cooking energy efficiency
Reforestation, livelihoods and income equality
Despite global momentum in restoration activities, their socio‐economic implications are little studied. Thus far, the limited evidence available tends to overlook equity and equality outcomes. In this work, we aimed at investigating fairness within the Chinese Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program (CCFP), given the relevance of local people's support for the long‐term success of land restoration and for the inherent belief that equity should …
A decentralized approach to model national and global food and land use systems
The achievement of several sustainable development goals and the Paris Climate Agreement depends on rapid progress towards sustainable food and land systems in all countries. We have built a flexible, collaborative modeling framework to foster the development of national pathways by local research teams and their integration up to global scale. Local researchers independently customize national models to explore mid-century pathways of the food a…
A systematic review of household energy transition in low and middle income countries
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the Fable initiative
There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy their demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change to achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with the FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy—Consortium t…
Pathways to sustainable land use and food systems in Canada
Meeting well-below 2°C target would increase energy sector jobs globally
To limit global warming to well-below 2°C (WB2C), fossil fuels must be replaced by low-carbon energy sources. Support for this transition is often dampened by the impact on fossil fuel jobs. Previous work shows that pro-climate polices could increase employment by 20 million net energy jobs, but these studies rely on Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) jobs data, assumptions about jobs in non-OECD countries, and a single…
Expanding the scope of just transitions
How do decision makers ́ ethnicity and religion influence the use of forests? Evidence from Chile
Solar has greater techno-economic resource suitability than wind for replacing coal mining jobs
Coal mining directly employs over 7 million workers and benefits millions more through indirect jobs. However, to meet the 1.5 °C global climate target, coal’s share in global energy supply should decline between 73% and 97% by 2050. But what will happen to coal miners as coal jobs disappear ?Answering this question is necessary to ensure a just transition and to ensure that politically powerful coal mining interests do not impede energy transiti…
The risk of survey bias in self-reports vs. actual consumption of clean cooking fuels
Determinants of Cookstoves and Fuel Choice Among Rural Households in India
Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals
Forest dependence is more than forest income
Across the tropics, in both forested and agricultural landscapes, many households are highly dependent on forest resources. Small-holder farmers, many with few alternatives, collect fuelwood, building materials, wild foods, medicinal plants, and other forest products for subsistence or sale. Given continued tropical forest loss coupled with household forest dependence, quantifying levels of forest dependence is important for informing approaches …
Indigenous peoples, local communities, and Payments for Ecosystem Services
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs are reshaping the governance of ecosystems and natural resources around the world. These programs often occur in spaces that are unceded, contested, or otherwise not legally recognized as Indigenous homelands, customary areas, and territories. Building on the discourses of Indigenous self‐determination, nationhood, and cultural responsibilities, this paper examines how PES programs produce unique out…
Testing for consensus on Kyrgyz rangelands
Levine, J., A. Isaeva, H. Zerriffi, I. M. S. Eddy, M. Foggin, S. E. Gergel, and S. M. Hagerman. 2019. Testing for consensus on Kyrgyz rangelands: local perceptions in Naryn oblast. Ecology and Society 24(4):36. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11222-240436
Land reforms and voluntary resettlement
This paper examines the factors influencing household participation in and withdrawal from a World Bank-funded voluntary resettlement scheme moving 15,000 low-income farming households within and across rural districts in Malawi. Using a survey of 203 beneficiary households, focus groups and in-depth interviews, we identify a lack of access to land and conflict over land in the area of origin as salient participation factors in resettlement, whil…
From cookstove acquisition to cooking transition
A policy nexus approach to forests and the SDGs
Environmental payoffs of LPG cooking in India
Over two-thirds of Indians use solid fuels to meet daily cooking energy needs, with associated negative environmental, social, and health impacts. Major national initiatives implemented by the Indian government over the last few decades have included subsidies for cleaner burning fuels like liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene to encourage a transition to these. However, the extent to which these programs have affected net emissions from the u…
Decentralizing Governance of Agropastoral Systems in Kyrgyzstan
Agropastoral systems in Kyrgyzstan have undergone dramatic change in recent decades. In large part, change has resulted from the introduction of legislation that devolves authority and responsibility for the management of common-pool agropastoral resources to community-level pasture users associations. By applying Ostrom’s principles of common resource governance, this paper analyzes the institutions and norms that currently shape local managemen…
Is Fairtrade certification greening agricultural practices? An analysis of Fairtrade environmental standards in Rwanda
Who participates in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and why
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of international representation in the activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change using expert authorship counts by country in each of the four IPCC assessment reports (1990, 1995, 2001 and 2007). Overall, we find that 45% of countries, all Non-Annex 1, have never had authors participate in the IPCC process; on the other hand, European and North American experts are make up more than 75…
Effects of Fair Trade Certification on Social Capital
Forest dependence is more than forest income
Across the tropics, in both forested and agricultural landscapes, many households are highly dependent on forest resources. Small-holder farmers, many with few alternatives, collect fuelwood, building materials, wild foods, medicinal plants, and other forest products for subsistence or sale. Given continued tropical forest loss coupled with household forest dependence, quantifying levels of forest dependence is important for informing approaches …
Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals
Expanding the scope of just transitions
Land reforms and voluntary resettlement
This paper examines the factors influencing household participation in and withdrawal from a World Bank-funded voluntary resettlement scheme moving 15,000 low-income farming households within and across rural districts in Malawi. Using a survey of 203 beneficiary households, focus groups and in-depth interviews, we identify a lack of access to land and conflict over land in the area of origin as salient participation factors in resettlement, whil…
Innovative business models for the scale-up of energy access efforts for the poorest
A policy nexus approach to forests and the SDGs
Is Fairtrade certification greening agricultural practices? An analysis of Fairtrade environmental standards in Rwanda
Indigenous peoples, local communities, and Payments for Ecosystem Services
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs are reshaping the governance of ecosystems and natural resources around the world. These programs often occur in spaces that are unceded, contested, or otherwise not legally recognized as Indigenous homelands, customary areas, and territories. Building on the discourses of Indigenous self‐determination, nationhood, and cultural responsibilities, this paper examines how PES programs produce unique out…
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the Fable initiative
There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy their demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change to achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with the FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy—Consortium t…
Science, decision‐making and development
This article addresses the role of scientific knowledge in decision‐making with respect to climate variability and change in the developing world, with a focus on scientific capacity. We propose a ‘systemic’ view of scientific capacity for studying the relationship between science and decision‐making vis‐à‐vis climate variation, one that encompasses knowledge production, as well as its translation for and use in decision‐making. We analyze the ch…
How do decision makers ́ ethnicity and religion influence the use of forests? Evidence from Chile
From cookstove acquisition to cooking transition
Mitigation deterrence and unrealistic expectations
Forest offsets decrease carbon prices but deter renewables, carbon capture, and innovation. • Forest-sink losses raise mitigation costs up to 0.5 percentage points versus no offsets. • Low-income regions face up to two percent higher costs when forest offsets fail. • Offset reliance creates moral hazard and undermines fair paths to net zero. This study examines the economic and societal impacts of using Forest Carbon Offsets (FCO) as a negative e…
Testing for consensus on Kyrgyz rangelands
Levine, J., A. Isaeva, H. Zerriffi, I. M. S. Eddy, M. Foggin, S. E. Gergel, and S. M. Hagerman. 2019. Testing for consensus on Kyrgyz rangelands: local perceptions in Naryn oblast. Ecology and Society 24(4):36. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11222-240436
Three dimensional energy profile
Innovative business models for the scale-up of energy access efforts for the poorest
Science, decision‐making and development
This article addresses the role of scientific knowledge in decision‐making with respect to climate variability and change in the developing world, with a focus on scientific capacity. We propose a ‘systemic’ view of scientific capacity for studying the relationship between science and decision‐making vis‐à‐vis climate variation, one that encompasses knowledge production, as well as its translation for and use in decision‐making. We analyze the ch…
Who participates in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and why
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of international representation in the activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change using expert authorship counts by country in each of the four IPCC assessment reports (1990, 1995, 2001 and 2007). Overall, we find that 45% of countries, all Non-Annex 1, have never had authors participate in the IPCC process; on the other hand, European and North American experts are make up more than 75…
Effects of Fair Trade Certification on Social Capital
Is Fairtrade certification greening agricultural practices? An analysis of Fairtrade environmental standards in Rwanda
Decentralizing Governance of Agropastoral Systems in Kyrgyzstan
Agropastoral systems in Kyrgyzstan have undergone dramatic change in recent decades. In large part, change has resulted from the introduction of legislation that devolves authority and responsibility for the management of common-pool agropastoral resources to community-level pasture users associations. By applying Ostrom’s principles of common resource governance, this paper analyzes the institutions and norms that currently shape local managemen…
Environmental payoffs of LPG cooking in India
Over two-thirds of Indians use solid fuels to meet daily cooking energy needs, with associated negative environmental, social, and health impacts. Major national initiatives implemented by the Indian government over the last few decades have included subsidies for cleaner burning fuels like liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene to encourage a transition to these. However, the extent to which these programs have affected net emissions from the u…
From cookstove acquisition to cooking transition
A policy nexus approach to forests and the SDGs
Determinants of Cookstoves and Fuel Choice Among Rural Households in India
Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals
Forest dependence is more than forest income
Across the tropics, in both forested and agricultural landscapes, many households are highly dependent on forest resources. Small-holder farmers, many with few alternatives, collect fuelwood, building materials, wild foods, medicinal plants, and other forest products for subsistence or sale. Given continued tropical forest loss coupled with household forest dependence, quantifying levels of forest dependence is important for informing approaches …
Indigenous peoples, local communities, and Payments for Ecosystem Services
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs are reshaping the governance of ecosystems and natural resources around the world. These programs often occur in spaces that are unceded, contested, or otherwise not legally recognized as Indigenous homelands, customary areas, and territories. Building on the discourses of Indigenous self‐determination, nationhood, and cultural responsibilities, this paper examines how PES programs produce unique out…
Testing for consensus on Kyrgyz rangelands
Levine, J., A. Isaeva, H. Zerriffi, I. M. S. Eddy, M. Foggin, S. E. Gergel, and S. M. Hagerman. 2019. Testing for consensus on Kyrgyz rangelands: local perceptions in Naryn oblast. Ecology and Society 24(4):36. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11222-240436
Land reforms and voluntary resettlement
This paper examines the factors influencing household participation in and withdrawal from a World Bank-funded voluntary resettlement scheme moving 15,000 low-income farming households within and across rural districts in Malawi. Using a survey of 203 beneficiary households, focus groups and in-depth interviews, we identify a lack of access to land and conflict over land in the area of origin as salient participation factors in resettlement, whil…
Solar has greater techno-economic resource suitability than wind for replacing coal mining jobs
Coal mining directly employs over 7 million workers and benefits millions more through indirect jobs. However, to meet the 1.5 °C global climate target, coal’s share in global energy supply should decline between 73% and 97% by 2050. But what will happen to coal miners as coal jobs disappear ?Answering this question is necessary to ensure a just transition and to ensure that politically powerful coal mining interests do not impede energy transiti…
The risk of survey bias in self-reports vs. actual consumption of clean cooking fuels
Meeting well-below 2°C target would increase energy sector jobs globally
To limit global warming to well-below 2°C (WB2C), fossil fuels must be replaced by low-carbon energy sources. Support for this transition is often dampened by the impact on fossil fuel jobs. Previous work shows that pro-climate polices could increase employment by 20 million net energy jobs, but these studies rely on Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) jobs data, assumptions about jobs in non-OECD countries, and a single…
Expanding the scope of just transitions
How do decision makers ́ ethnicity and religion influence the use of forests? Evidence from Chile
A systematic review of household energy transition in low and middle income countries
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the Fable initiative
There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy their demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change to achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with the FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy—Consortium t…
Pathways to sustainable land use and food systems in Canada
Reforestation, livelihoods and income equality
Despite global momentum in restoration activities, their socio‐economic implications are little studied. Thus far, the limited evidence available tends to overlook equity and equality outcomes. In this work, we aimed at investigating fairness within the Chinese Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program (CCFP), given the relevance of local people's support for the long‐term success of land restoration and for the inherent belief that equity should …
Economics (23 works) · Business (18 works) · Geography (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (9 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works) · Natural resource economics (9 works) · Climate change (7 works)