Anne-Julie Rochette

Institute of Natural Sciences · Operational Directorate Natural Environment

Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies targeting and impacting local communities worldwide. However, research and policy implementation often fail to sufficiently consider community responses and to involve them. We present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for eight case studies of communications with regard to cl...

Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies targeting and impacting local communities worldwide. However, research and policy implementation often fail to sufficiently consider community responses and involve them. We present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for eight case studies of communications regarding climate ch...

Le rapport de 2020 de « l’évaluation mondiale de la biodiversité et des services écosystémiques » de la Plateforme intergouvernementale scientifique et politique sur la biodiversité et les services écosystémiques (IPBES) indique que la nature et ses contributions aux populations jouent un rôle important non seulement pour la santé de la planète, ma...

From 2022 onwards the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) of the Convention on Biological Diversity will guide biodiversity conservation actions worldwide, which includes mainstreaming biodiversity into a wide range of activities, sectors and policies. Biodiversity mainstreaming in development cooperation is particularly relevant given th...

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)’ 2020 “Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services” states that nature and its contributions to people play an important role not only for the health of the planet, but also to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It highlighted no...

Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies targeting and impacting local communities worldwide. However, research and policy implementation often fail to sufficiently consider community responses and involve them. We present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for eight case studies of communications regarding climate ch...

A common strategy to counteract global biodiversity loss is sustainable management of protected areas. However, as protection of nature sometimes conflicts with human livelihoods and involves stakeholders with different interests, conservation conflict is globally on the rise. These conflicts can hamper sustainable development, social equity and ef...

Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies targeting and impacting local communities worldwide. However, research and policy implementation often fail to sufficiently consider and involve them. Therefore, we present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for eight case studies of communications regarding climate change or b...

Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies worldwide, many of which target or impact local communities. Although research, international development, and policy implementation (and, thus, success in fighting both threats) require thoughtful consideration and communication of the underlying concepts, field work encounters a cascade of tan...

Ecosystem services are a telling concept to discuss the integrated management of natural resources, such as integrated water and soil, with non-academic stakeholders. Stakeholders have different perceptions regarding the management of various ecosystem services, which is challenging when aiming to develop and foster sustainable ecosystem management...

The social-ecological system of the Lake Manyara basin (Northern Tanzania), a UNESCO Biosphere reserve (BR) suffers from social-economic and environmental problems due to decreasing water levels, erosion and land and water use conflicts. We propose an integrated assessment of the social-ecological interactions of the area to support future sustaina...

While the concept of ecosystem services which links biodiversity to human wellbeing, is by now well-known, its translation into actual management decisions is still uneven. African Biosphere Reserves, which are to be living labs for sustainable development, embody the idea of synergies between people and nature. Gaining knowledge about the provisio...

Mainstreaming biodiversity conservation into development cooperation—highlights from an ALTER-NET-EKLIPSE workshop - Volume 54 Issue 1 - Jean Hugé, Maarten Vanhove, Bruno Verbist, Els Dekeyzer, Piet Stoffelen, Ingrid Leemans, Jennifer Sjölund, Isabelle Vertriest, Erik Verheyen, Hilde Keunen, Anne-Julie Rochette, Luc Janssens de Bisthoven

Mainstreaming biodiversity in development cooperation activities is called for by scientists and policy-makers alike, as the current biodiversity crisis can only be mitigated if the linkages between biodiversity and human wellbeing are acknowledged. Reconciling biodiversity conservation and human development is a particularly topical challenge in h...

Monitoring natural resources in protected areas: developing biodiversity indicators in and around protected areas in East- and West Africa and the Middle East • The Convention on Biological Diversity and other conventions recommend the development of indicators as a key tool for monitoring the imple- mentation of National Biodiversity Strategies a...

Conserving African biosphere reserves: a workshop on the valuation of ecosystem services in Man and the Biosphere Reserves

Monitoring is important in ensuring that we keep track of trends in utilisation and restoration. Monitoring natural resources in protected areas: developing biodiversity indicators in and around protected areas in East-and West Africa and the Middle East

There is an increasing need to develop monitoring schemes that help us understand trends in the global biodiversity crisis and to propose solutions for the future. Indicators incorporating temporal baselines are crucial to measure the change in biodiversity over time, to evaluate progress towards its conservation and sustainable use and to set cons...

There is an increasing need for monitoring schemes that help understand the evolution of the global biodiversity crisis and propose solutions for the future. Indicators, including temporal baselines, are crucial to measure the change in biodiversity over time, to evaluate progress towards its conservation and sustainable use and to set conservation...

To successfully conserve ecosystem services in the global South, biodiversity should be integrated at all levels of policy and decision-making processes of development cooperation. CEBioS, in collaboration with KLIMOS, explores in this policy brief different methods of mainstreaming biodiversity into development cooperation ( by applying ex ante i...

This policy brief (in French) is a common work of Congolese scientists and representatives of environment administrations to address the issue of the bushmeat trade in DR Congo. It was created and presented during a workshop organized by CEBioS (cebios.naturalsciences.be) in Kisangani, DR Congo.

This policy brief (in French) is a common work of Congolese scientists and representatives of environment administrations to address the sustainability of fisheries in DR Congo. It was created and presented during a workshop organized in October 2017 by CEBioS (cebios.naturalsciences.be) in Kisangani, DR Congo.

The concept of MRV (measurement, reporting and verification) of biodiversity and ecosystem services is presented and the projects that were selected during the two first calls are summarized, together with their challenges and first outputs.

In view of better linking conservation and sustainable development, it is imperative to optimize the transfer of biodiversity-related knowledge and technology from resource-rich countries to developing countries. All countries signatory to the Convention on Biological Diversity are expected to report on their progress towards achieving the Aichi Bi...

Since the first Indochinese war, natural populations of Leiolepis guttata have been hunted for their meat in southeastern Vietnam as a subsistence meal; nowadays, it has become a luxury delicacy. Commercial farms have become established since 2004 because of wild population declines and increasing demand for meat. We interviewed farmers and restaur...

The importance of local ecological knowledge or "ethnoecology" is evoked in the context of the diversity of wild edible products used as local food supply. Consumption of meat of wild reptiles in Vietnam is shown as an example. Leiolepis guttata (Cuvier, 1829) is given full consideration as since the first Indochinese war its natural populations ha...

After having sketched the present interest showed on Leiolepis guttata, its range is updated. The climate of the concerned sites is defined. The geomorphological units observed are listed and the vegetation units described. The flora of the natural sites is drawn up from the literature as well as from observations carried out on about ten sites. Pe...