Mes compétences :
Ecology
Natural Resource Management
Protected areas
Resilience
Entreprises
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Post Doc
2015 - maintenantSustainability Research Unit - NMMU George Campus
Host: Christo Fabricius
My current projects focus on theoretical and applied interdisciplinary research on the dynamics of social-ecological systems including protected areas in Southern Africa.
- Social-ecological sustainability in coastal areas, MAGIC Belmont Forum
- Indigenous biodiversity indicators of environmental change, PIAF ANR
- Effects of climate change on a biodiversity dependent savanna socio-ecological system, SAVARID ANR
Paris2015 - 2015Post-doc position in human ecology and socio-ecological system dynamics – CNRS, France Laboratoire dynamiques sociales et recomposition des espaces (LADYSS, UMR 7533)
“Understanding how humans elaborate indigenous indicators of environmental changes: a
comparative analysis in four countries on a gradient urban-rural-protected area”
In collaboration with Hwange LTER, Coweeta LTER, DYNAFOR-INRA. Funding: National
Research Agency (ANR PIAF)
CNRS
- Post Doc
Paris2013 - 2015Post-doc position in human ecology and socio-ecological system dynamics – CNRS, France
Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive (LBBE, UMR 5558) – Zone Atelier Hwange
(Hwange LTER), Zimbabwe
“Conservation and well-being: an interdisciplinary multi-scale approach of natural resource
access and management in a context of global changes”
In collaboration with CREDESPO (Political sciences) and CIRAD (Agricultural Research for
Development) - Funding: National Research Agency (ANR SAVARID).
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris - CNRS
- Doctorante - PhD Candidate
2008 - 2012I am currently finishing my PhD (ED227-MNHN) on "Integrated and sustainable wildlife management through protected areas" co-supervised by Dr L. Doyen (CNRS-UMR 7204) and Dr H. Fritz (CNRS-UMR 5558) and co-funded by ERAMET SA, the French Embassy of Zimbabwe and the CNRS.
I spent most of my PhD in the Zimbabwean savannah, at the interface between Hwange National Park (15.000 km²)and its peripheral areas. Based on a socio-ecological systems approaches, my field works focused on understanding endogenous processes shaping coexistence of people and wildlife. The African elephant (Loxodonta africana) was the connecting thread of this multidisciplinary research. Field works were carried out through a combination of ecological and social methodologies, including semi directive questionnaires, participatory protocols, road transects, radio-collaring (10 satellite GPS collars fitted on bull elephants at the interface between the park and its periphery), damage impact and production systems (subsistence farming, wildlife industry) expertises.
Key words of my research include integrated natural resource management, land uses, ecosystem services, endogenous processes, coping strategies, heterogeneity, sustainability and resilience.
