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Speaker: Jaqueline de Chazal
jacqueline.dechazal<at>ujf-grenoble.fr
Université Joseph Fourier (CEFE), BP 53 X, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
Title of the talk: A
VISTA to whom? Assessing vulnerability in Traditional Agricultural Landscapes
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Biosketch
Brief C.V. Jacqueline de Chazal
PhD
I received my PhD from the Australian National University, in Canberra, in 2003,
supervised by Ian Noble and Julian Ash. My PhD is titled ‘Perspectives on Ecosystem
Health’ and examined conceptual and practical dimensions of ecosystem ‘health’.
The conceptual work was primarily concerned with examining the role that subjective
values play in representations of ecosystem health in environmental management.
The practical study focused on one major representation of ecosystem health,
the ‘ecosystem distress syndrome’ (EDS), as proposed by Rapport and colleagues.
The practical study examined the adequacy of the EDS from a number of different
perspectives on health in relation to forest fragmentation in south-eastern
NSW. The study combined an ecological study, and a social survey of perceptions
of health given to a number of interest groups in the study region.
Undergraduate studies
My undergraduate studies combined ecology, human ecology, forestry, and philosophy.
The course that most influenced my present research approach and interests was
human ecology, examining the histories of human societies since the industrial
revolution from a biological, social, and economic perspective. My Honours project
investigated the still contentious debate over whether clearfelling of native
forests is an equivalent ecological disturbance to wildfire.
Employment
I am presently employed as a post-doctorate with the VISTA project (Vulnerability
of Ecosystem Services in Traditional Agricultural Landscapes), in France. I
have also been employed in a variety of other research positions at both academic
and government institutions. These include positions with the Australian Institute
of Health and Welfare, the Resource Assessment Commission, and the Australian
National University. I have worked on a variety of subjects, in a variety of
disciplines. For example, at the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare
I worked on a national welfare indicators report. At the Resource Assessment
Commission, I assisted on a report that used multi-criteria analysis for land
use decision making, and in the production of the final national report called
the Coastal Zone Inquiry. In my positions at the Australian National University,
I assisted with aspects of the conceptual framework for the Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment, and on the Ecologically Sustainable Development Working Group Final
Report on Forest Use.
Research interests
I am interested in post-modern approaches to evaluations of ecosystem change,
deconstruction of normative concepts in environmental management, and devising
and debating theories about most things.
Forthcoming publications
Jacqueline de Chazal, Ian Noble and Julian Ash Perspectives
on ecosystem health: a conceptual and practical examination of several implicit
assumptions behind the concept of ecosystem health.
Jacqueline de Chazal, Sandra Lavorel and Fabien Quétier A framework
and methodology for vulnerability assessment in extensive agro-pastoral landscapes
in Europe.
Contact
Dr Jacqueline de Chazal
UMR 5553 CNRS
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine
Université Joseph Fourier
BP 53X F - 38041
Grenoble Cedex 9 FRANCE
jacqueline.dechazal@ujf-grenoble.fr or jacqueline@dechazal.net
Telephone : +33 4 76 63 54 39
Fax : +33 4 76 51 44 63
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