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Social Sciences and Humanities

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44
Citations
13016
World Ranking
4023
National Ranking
31

Ecology and Evolution

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44
Citations
13175
World Ranking
4960
National Ranking
104

Overview

Christian A. Kull is a researcher affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their main field of study is Environmental Science, with a research focus spanning several interconnected subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research covers a range of topics predominantly within Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management. Additional focuses include Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Forest Management and Policy.

Christian A. Kull's recent publications include:

  • "Navigating power in conservation" (2023), published in Conservation Science and Practice
  • "Madagascar's fire regimes challenge global assumptions about landscape degradation" (2022), published in Global Change Biology
  • "Consensus and controversy in the discipline of invasion science" (2022), published in Conservation Biology
  • "Recalibrating burdens of blame: Anti-swidden politics and green governance in the Philippine Uplands" (2020), published in Geoforum
  • "Vietnam's forest cover changes 2005-2016: Veering from transition to (yet more) transaction?" (2020), published in World Development

The researcher has collaborated frequently with other academics, notably Ross T. Shackleton, Roland Cochard, Van Thi Hai Nguyen, Víctor Fernández-García, and Caroline E. R. Lehmann. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary and geographically diverse research engagements.

Christian A. Kull has contributed to book publications with Edward Elgar Publishing, including a chapter or contribution to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity published in 2024.

Their work appears regularly in several publication venues including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Conservation
  • Geoforum
  • Conservation Science and Practice
  • Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • Fire in the Earth System

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • From hope to crisis and back again? A critical history of the global CBNRM narrative

    Wolfram Dressler;Bram Büscher;Bram Büscher;Michael Schoon;Dan Brockington

  • Middle-range theories of land system change

    P. Meyfroidt;R. Roy Chowdhury;A. de Bremond;A. de Bremond;E.C. Ellis

  • Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar

    Christian Arthur Kull

  • The role of invasive alien species in shaping local livelihoods and human well-being: A review.

    Ross T. Shackleton;Ross T. Shackleton;Ross T. Shackleton;Charlie M. Shackleton;Christian A. Kull

  • Explaining people’s perceptions of invasive alien species: A conceptual framework.

    Ross T. Shackleton;David M. Richardson;Charlie M. Shackleton;Brett Bennett;Brett Bennett

  • The political ecology of ecosystem services

    Christian Arthur Kull;Christian Arthur Kull;Xavier Arnauld de Sartre;Monica Castro-Larranaga;Monica Castro-Larranaga

  • Adoption, use and perception of Australian acacias around the world

    Christian A. Kull;Charlie M. Shackleton;Peter J. Cunningham;Catherine Ducatillon

  • Integrating ecosystem services and disservices: insights from plant invasions

    Ana S. Vaz;Christoph Kueffer;Christoph Kueffer;Christian A. Kull;Christian A. Kull;David M. Richardson

  • What makes ecology `political'?: rethinking `scale' in political ecology

    Haripriya Rangan;Christian Arthur Kull

  • Risk assessment, eradication, and biological control: global efforts to limit Australian acacia invasions

    John R. U. Wilson;Claire Gairifo;Claire Gairifo;Michelle R. Gibson;Margarita Arianoutsou

  • Deforestation, erosion, and fire: degradation myths in the environmental history of Madagascar.

    Christian Arthur Kull

  • Madagascar aflame: landscape burning as peasant protest, resistance, or a resource management tool?

    Christian Arthur Kull

  • Empowering Pyromaniacs in Madagascar: Ideology and Legitimacy in Community‐Based Natural Resource Management

    Christian Arthur Kull

  • The progress of interdisciplinarity in invasion science

    Ana S. Vaz;Christoph Kueffer;Christoph Kueffer;Christian A. Kull;Christian A. Kull;David M. Richardson

  • Tropical Forest Transitions and Globalization:Neo-Liberalism, Migration, Tourism, and International Conservation Agendas

    Christian Arthur Kull;Camellia K Ibrahim;Thomas C Meredith

  • From hope to crisis and back again? A critical history of the global CBNRM narrative

    Wolfram Dressler;Michael Schoon;Dan Brockington;Tanya Hayes

  • Dry forests in Madagascar: neglected and under pressure

    P.O. Waeber;L. Wilmé;B. Ramamonjisoa;C. Garcia

  • A native at home and abroad: the history, politics, ethics and aesthetics of acacias

    Jane Carruthers;Libby Robin;Libby Robin;Johan P. Hattingh;Christian A. Kull

  • RESEARCH Adoption, use and perception of Australian acacias around the world

    Christian A. Kull;Charlie M. Shackleton;Peter J. Cunningham;Jean-Marc Dufour-Dror

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Richardson
David M. Richardson Stellenbosch University
Joana R. Vicente
Joana R. Vicente University of Porto
Jennifer K. Balch
Jennifer K. Balch University of Colorado Boulder
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Charlie M. Shackleton
Charlie M. Shackleton Rhodes University
João P. Honrado
João P. Honrado University of Porto
Jon E. Keeley
Jon E. Keeley United States Geological Survey
Paulo Artaxo
Paulo Artaxo Universidade de São Paulo
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University

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