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Bern University of Applied Sciences

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Scopus Author ID: 36144993100

Keywords

agroecology, political ecology, environmental justice, resilience, indigenous knowledge, climate change, international forestry, social-ecological systems

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Switzerland, Bolivia, Senegal, Kenya, Laos, Brazil, Cuba

Biography

My research is at the crossroads of environmental science, geography and social anthropology. I engage with how people interact with the natural world, how they perceive this interaction, and how we can make environmental protection more socially just.

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Universitat Bern: Bern, Bern, CH

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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Bern: Bern, CH

2004-01-01 to 2007-11-22 | Dr. Phil.-nat (Institute of Geography)
Education
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Sébastien Boillat

ETH Zurich: Zurich, CH

1997-09-01 to 2002-11-11 | Dipl. Umwelt. Natw. ETHZ (Environmental Science)
Education
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Professional activities (9)

Bern University of Applied Sciences: Bern, CH

2022-03-01 to present | Senior researcher / lecturer (School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences)
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University of Neuchâtel: Neuchâtel, CH

2022-02-01 to present | Lecturer (Institute of Biology)
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University of Bern: Bern, CH

2016-03-01 to 2024-03-31 | Senior Researcher (Institute of Geography)
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Sébastien Boillat

National Institute for Space Research: São José dos Campos, BR

2014-09-01 to 2015-12-31 | Science Officer, Global Land Programme (Earth System Science Center)
Invited position
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University of Geneva: Geneva, CH

2012-03-01 to 2014-02-28 | PostDoc researcher (Department of Geography and Environment)
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University of Manitoba: Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA

2011-03-01 to 2012-02-29 | Visiting Scholar (Natural Resources Institute)
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Estación Experimental de Pastos y Forrajes Indio Hatuey: Matanzas, CU

2009-03-01 to 2010-02-28 (Junior Programme Officer)
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Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation: Bern, CH

2008-03-01 to 2009-02-28 | Junior Progamme Officer (Development Policy Division)
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Universidad Mayor de San Simon: Cochabamba, BO

2003-01-01 to 2006-06-15 | PhD candidate (Agroecologia Universidad Cochabamba)
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Funding (7)

Indigenous Agroecological Territories (INDAGAR) A Potential for Up-Scaling Sustainable and Just Food System Transformation

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Agroecology for Resilient Territories in Senegal: an approach through collaborative platforms and artistic communication

2023-05 to 2026-04 | Grant
SOR4D - Solution-oriented research for development programme (Bern, CH)
URL: https://arts.unibe.ch/
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Why do we work? Assessing sub-Saharan farmers’ motivations and labour in agroecology (AgroWork)

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Governing Telecoupled Resource Systems for Environmental Justice

2016-03 to 2018-07 | Contract
University of Bern (Bern, CH)
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Agricultural Climate Resilience to El-Nino in sub-Saharan Africa

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A multi-scale approach to land governance in complex cultural, environmental and institutional contexts. Development of a comparative GIS methodology linking land use, land cover and land tenure from the cases of Bolivia and the Lao PDR.

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Is identity recover leading to ecological recover? Institutional change, land governance, discourses and narratives of peasant communities in the Bolivian Andes

2011-03 to 2012-02 | Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation (Bern, CH)
URL: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/project?projectId=snsf________::b8629cd0148f51112fb53be9ae490c98
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Works (32)

The division of work in Senegalese conventional and alternative food networks: a contributive justice perspective

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
2023-06-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1127593
Part of ISSN: 2571-581X
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; Patrick Bottazzi; Ibrahima Khalil Sabaly
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Global shocks, cascading disruptions, and (re-)connections: viewing the COVID-19 pandemic as concurrent natural experiments to understand land system dynamics

Landscape Ecology
2023-05 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-023-01604-2
Part of ISSN: 0921-2973
Part of ISSN: 1572-9761
Contributors: María Piquer-Rodríguez; Cecilie Friis; R. Ntsiva N. Andriatsitohaina; Sébastien Boillat; Paula Roig-Boixeda; Chiara Cortinovis; Davide Geneletti; M.J. Ibarrola Rivas; Lisa Kelley; Jorge C. Llopis et al.
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Smallholder livelihood resilience to climate variability in South-Eastern Kenya, 2012–2015

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
2023-03-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1070083
Part of ISSN: 2571-581X
Contributors: Roman Aschinger; Sébastien Boillat; Chinwe Ifejika Speranza
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Sébastien Boillat

Mapping and characterizing social-ecological land systems of South America

Ecology and Society
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5751/es-13066-270227
Part of ISSN: 1708-3087
Contributors: Lucía Zarbá; María Piquer-Rodríguez; Sébastien Boillat; Christian Levers; Ignacio Gasparri; T. Mitchell Aide; Nora L. Álvarez-Berríos; Liana O. Anderson; Ezequiel Araoz; Eugenio Arima et al.
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The Named, Lived and Contested Environment

The Politics of Place Naming
2022-12-12 | Other
DOI: 10.1002/9781394188307.ch3
ISBN: 9781789451153
ISBN: 9781394188307
Contributors: Sébastien BOILLAT; Sébastien Boillat
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The role of protected areas and land tenure regimes on forest loss in Bolivia: Accounting for spatial spillovers

Global Environmental Change
2022-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102571
Part of ISSN: 0959-3780
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; M. Graziano Ceddia; Patrick Bottazzi
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Key dimensions of land users’ perceptions of land degradation and sustainable land management in Niger State, Nigeria

Environmental Challenges
2022-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.envc.2022.100544
Part of ISSN: 2667-0100
Contributors: Adenle A.A; Sébastien Boillat; Chinwe Ifejika Speranza
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The agroecological transition in Senegal: transnational links and uneven empowerment

Agriculture and Human Values
2022-03 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-021-10247-5
Part of ISSN: 0889-048X
Part of ISSN: 1572-8366
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; Raphael Belmin; Patrick Bottazzi
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Agroecological Farmer Movements and Advocacy Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Between De-Politicization and Re-Politicization

The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies
2021 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71909-8_18
Part of ISBN: 9783030719081
Part of ISBN: 9783030719098
Contributors: Patrick Bottazzi; Sébastien Boillat
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Buffer-Capacity-Based Livelihood Resilience to Stressors—An Early Warning Tool and Its Application in Makueni County, Kenya

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
2021-07-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2021.645046
Part of ISSN: 2571-581X
Contributors: Selina Matter; Sébastien Boillat; Chinwe Ifejika Speranza
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Political Agroecology in Senegal: Historicity and Repertoires of Collective Actions of an Emerging Social Movement

Sustainability
2021-06-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/su13116352
Contributors: Patrick Bottazzi; Sébastien Boillat
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Decolonizing ecological knowledge: transdisciplinary ecology, place making and cognitive justice in the Andes

The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability
2020 | Book chapter
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Sébastien Boillat

Agroecology as a pathway to resilience justice: peasant movements and collective action in the Niayes coastal region of Senegal

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology
2020-10-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2020.1758972
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; Patrick Bottazzi
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Channels of Labour Control in Organic Farming: Toward a Just Agroecological Transition for Sub-Saharan Africa

Land 2020, Vol. 9, Page 205
2020-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/LAND9060205
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Why telecoupling research needs to account for environmental justice

Journal of Land Use Science
2020-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2020.1737257
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; Adrian Martin; Timothy Adams; Desiree Daniel; Jorge Llopis; Elena Zepharovich; Christoph Oberlack; Gabi Sonderegger; Patrick Bottazzi; Esteve Corbera et al.
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The Geopolitics of Protected Areas

Geopolitics
2020-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2019.1690413
Part of ISSN: 1465-0045
Part of ISSN: 1557-3028
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Land Degradation Neutrality - Potentials for its operationalisation at multi-levels in Nigeria

Environmental Science and Policy
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.12.018
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2-s2.0-85059944162
Contributors: Ifejika Speranza, C.; Adenle, A.; Boillat, S.
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Can smallholder farmers buffer rainfall variability through conservation agriculture? On-farm practices and maize yields in Kenya and Malawi

Environmental Research Letters
2019-11-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab45ad
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; Eleanor K K Jew; Peter R Steward; Chinwe Ifejika Speranza; Stephen Whitfield; David Mkwambisi; Boniface Kiteme; Grace Wambugu; Oliver J Burdekin; Andrew J Dougill
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Measuring subjective flood resilience in Suburban Dakar: A before-after evaluation of the "Live with Water" project

Sustainability (Switzerland)
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/su10072135
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2-s2.0-85048948417
Contributors: Bottazzi, P.; Winkler, M.S.; Boillat, S.; Diagne, A.; Sika, M.M.C.; Kpangon, A.; Faye, S.; Speranza, C.I.
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Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Ecology and Society
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5751/ES-09902-230116
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2-s2.0-85044943624
Contributors: Oberlack, C.; Boillat, S.; Brönnimann, S.; Gerber, J.-D.; Heinimann, A.; Speranza, C.I.; Messerli, P.; Rist, S.; Wiesmann, U.
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Distant Interactions, Power, and Environmental Justice in Protected Area Governance: A Telecoupling Perspective

Sustainability
2018-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/su10113954
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; Jean-David Gerber; Christoph Oberlack; Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer; Chinwe Ifejika Speranza; Stephan Rist
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Land system science in Latin America: challenges and perspectives

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
2017-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.01.015
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; Fabiano M Scarpa; James P Robson; Ignácio Gasparri; T Mitchell Aide; Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar; Liana O Anderson; Mateus Batistella; Marisa Gesteira Fonseca; Célia Futemma et al.
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Do Relocated Villages Experience More Forest Cover Change? Resettlements, Shifting Cultivation and Forests in the Lao PDR

Environments
2015-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/environments2020250
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; Corinna Stich; Joan Bastide; Michael Epprecht; Sithong Thongmanivong; Andreas Heinimann
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Integrating Forest Cover Change with Census Data: Drivers and Contexts from Bolivia and the Lao PDR

Land
2015-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/land4010045
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; Hy Dao; Patrick Bottazzi; Yuri Sandoval; Abraham Luna; Sithong Thongmanivong; Louca Lerch; Joan Bastide; Andreas Heinimann; Frédéric Giraut
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Procedimiento integral para contribuir a la transiciÃ�̂A\textthreesuperiorn de fincas agropecuarias a agroenergÃ�̂A̧opyrightticas sostenibles en Cuba

Pastos y Forrajes
2014-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0864-0394
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Sébastien Boillat

Perception and Interpretation of Climate Change among Quechua Farmers of Bolivia: Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource for Adaptive Capacity

Ecology and Society
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5751/es-05894-180421
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; Fikret Berkes
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Linking local knowledge, conservation practices and ecosystem diversity: comparing two communities in the Tunari National Park (Bolivia)

Ethnobiology and Conservation
2013-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.15451/ec2013-8-2.8-1-28
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel; Stephan Rist
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The Importance of Place Names in the Search for Ecosystem-Like Concepts in Indigenous Societies: An Example from the Bolivian Andes

Environmental Management
2012-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-9969-4
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; Elvira Serrano; Stephan Rist; Fikret Berkes
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What economic democracy for degrowth? Some comments on the contribution of socialist models and Cuban agroecology

Futures
2012-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2012.03.021
Contributors: Sébastien Boillat; Julien-François Gerber; Fernando R. Funes-Monzote
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EvaluaciÃ\textthreesuperiorn inicial de sistemas integrados para la producciÃ\textthreesuperiorn de alimentos y energía en Cuba

Pastos y Forrajes
2011-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0864-0394
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Sébastien Boillat

Researchers' roles in knowledge co-production: experience from sustainability research in Kenya, Switzerland, Bolivia and Nepal

Science and Public Policy
2010-05-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3152/030234210x496628
Contributors: Christian Pohl; Stephan Rist; Anne Zimmermann; Patricia Fry; Ghana S Gurung; Flurina Schneider; Chinwe Ifejika Speranza; Boniface Kiteme; Sébastian Boillat; Elvira Serrano et al.
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Vegetational succession on abandoned terraced land in the Vallee de la Roya (Alpes-Maritimes, France) and its perception by local people,La succession vegetale sur les cultures en terrasses de la vallee de la roya (Alpes-maritimes, france) et sa perception par la population locale,Vegetations-Sukzessionen auf Terrassenkulturen des Vallee de la Roya (Alpes- Maritimes, Frankreich) und ihre Wahrnehmung durch die lokale Bevolkerung

Geographica Helvetica
2004 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5194/gh-59-154-2004
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2-s2.0-84984415804
Contributors: Boillat, S.; Burga, C.A.; Gigon, A.; Backhaus, N.
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Peer review (2 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

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Review activity for Global environmental change. (1)
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