Dr Jacqueline De Chazal
Areas of expertise
- Rural Sociology 160804
- Ecological Impacts Of Climate Change 050101
- Natural Resource Management 050209
- Environmental Management 050205
Research interests
Concepts and methods for including multiple, differing perspectives in assessments of ecosystem change. Philosophy of science. Sociology of scientific knowledge.
Deliberative democracy. Systems thinking. Global environmental change.
Biography
Jacqueline has a first class honours degree in science, and a PhD in ecology. A long standing interest in the role that social values play in determining evaluations of ecosystem change has led her to widen her science focus to include the social sciences, in particular philosophy of science and sociology of scientific knowledge. She has lived and worked in Australia, France, Belgium, United Kingdom and Africa. Her research involves examining the complex relationships between ‘facts’ and ‘values’ in global environmental change and developing conceptual models and practical methods for working with multiple and shifting perspectives on assessments of ecosystem change. A major concern of her work has been to better integrate the social dimension into what are traditionally exclusively biophysical evaluations of ecosystem change. Currently she is undertaking an examination of policy-driven climate change adaptation in Australia under the auspices of the Environmental Economics Research Hub. She is seeking to understand relationships between deemed facts & values concerning climate change as presented in selected research & policy documents. The outcome of this work will be some policy recommendations for decision-making about climate change that better acknowledge the role of values.
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), and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA).
Publications
- De Chazal, J & Rounsevell, M 2009, 'Land-use and climate change within assessments of biodiversity change: a review', Global Environmental Change: Part B - Environmental Hazards, vol. 19, pp. 306-315.
- Quetier, F, Rivoal, F, Marty, P et al. 2009, 'Social representations of an alpine grassland landscape and socio-political discourses on rural development', Regional Environmental Change, vol. Online: 16 September 2009, pp. 1-12.
- Quetier, F, Lavorel, S, Daigney, S et al. 2009, 'Assessing ecological and social uncertainty in the evaluation of land-use impacts on ecosystem services', Journal of Land Use Science, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 173-199.
- Smith, B, Aasa, A, Ahas, R et al. 2008, 'Climate-related change in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems', in The BAAC Author Team (ed.), Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin, Springer, Berlin, pp. 221-308.
- De Chazal, J, Quetier, F, Lavorel, S et al. 2008, 'Including multiple differing stakeholder values into vulnerability assessments of socio-ecological systems', Global Environmental Change - Human and Policy Dimensions, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 508-520.
- Fischlin, A, Midgley, G, Price, J et al. 2007, 'Ecosystems, their properties, goods, and services', in M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson (ed.), Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 211-272.
- Carter, T, Jones, R, Lu, X et al. 2007, 'New Assessment Methods and the Characterisation of Future Conditions', in M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson (ed.), Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 133-171.
- Lavorel, S, Quétier, F, Thebault, A et al. 2006, 'Vulnerability to land use change of services provided by alpine landscapes', Open Science Conference on Global Change in Mountain Regions (GLOCHAMORE 2005), ed. Price M.F., Sapiens Publishing, Duncow, pp. 215-216.