Jacqueline de Chazal, BSc(Hons), PhD (ANU)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program

Email: jacqueline.dechazal[at]anu.edu.au

Biographical statement

Jacqueline has a background in ecology, however an interest in the role that social values play in determining evaluations of ecosystem change, has led her to widen this focus to include the social sciences. She is particularly interested in analysing the typically implicit assumptions behind normative terms used in environmental management to better articulate and accommodate their inescapable social context(s). She has worked on a range of topics in this area including ecosystem health, biodiversity, vulnerability, and ecosystem services, particularly in relation to assessing the impacts of climate change. Most recently she has worked in the area of community engagement in relation to biosecurity. Currently she is examining the evolution of policy-driven adaptation in rural communities in south-eastern Australiaunder the auspices of the Environmental Economics Research Hub. She aspires to broadening her research to include South-east Asia.

Recent Media Articles: Australia recruits bush detectives for biosecurity; Canberra tackles biosecurity.

Research Interests

Concepts and methods for including multiple, differing perspectives in assessments of socio-ecological systems; vulnerability assessments; integrated assessments; community engagement; deliberative public engagement.

Key Publications

• (with F. Quétier, S. Lavorel and S. Daigney) Assessing ecological and social uncertainty in the evaluation of land-use impacts on ecosystem services. Journal of Land Use Science 4(3): 173–99, 2009.
• (with M.D.A. Rounsevell) Land-use and climate change within assessments of biodiversity change: a review. Global Environmental Change 19: 306–15, 2008.
• (with F. Quétier, S. Lavorel and A. Van Doorn) Including multiple differing stakeholder values into vulnerability assessments of socio-ecological systems. Global Environmental Change18: 508– 20, 2008.
• (with B. Smith, A. Aasa, R. Ahas, T. Callaghan, C. Humborg, A-M. Jönsson, S. Kellomäki, A. Kull, E. Lehikoinen, U. Mander, P. Nõges, T. Nõges, M. Rounsevell, M. Sofiev, P. Tryjanowski and A. Wolf) Climate-related change in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. In The BACC Author Team, Baltex Assessment of Climate Change Berlin: Springer, pp. 221–308, 2006.
• (with S. Lavorel, F. Quétier, A. Thébault, S. Daigney, I.D. Davies and VISTA consortium) Vulnerability to land use change of services provided by alpine landscapes. In: M.F. Price (ed) Global Change in Mountain Regions. Perth, Scotland: Sapiens Publishing, pp 215–6, 2006.

Career Highlights

Contributed to the 2007 Working Group II Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), lived and worked in Australia, France, Belgium, England and Africa.