Jeffrey Wall

Introduction

As an environmental anthropologist and ethno-ecologist, my research develops theories and methods for identifying and amplifying detailed compatibilities between environmental health and the cultural survival of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. New to the field of migration studies, my current research investigates the influence of perceived changes in environmental health on migration ideation over time. This investigation operates at the global level while also connecting with the empirical context of olive-caring persons, households and families in their cherished landscapes in culturally diverse Southwest Morocco and Southeast Turkey.

Projects

Homeland No More: Seeking the Biocultural Origins of Landscape Abandonment in the Mediterranean Basin (Funded as part of Maria Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, 2023-2026)

Biodiverse-Cities for the People: Biodiverse-Cities for the People: Biocultural Selection, Placement and Perpetuation of Trees and Shrubs for Urban Landscapes (seeking various funders)

Seeing and Safeguarding Biocultural Connectivity between Kluskap Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) and the Bras d’Or Lake Biosphere Reserve (Funded by Unama’ki Institute for Natural Resources, 2021-2023)

Evaluating Compatibility between the Key Biodiversity Area Proposal Process and Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Environmental Priorities with evidence from Canada and Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia) (Funded by MITACS Canada 2020-2022)

Folk Valuation of Chestnut Diversity in Turkey: Towards Livelihood Centered Conservation (Funded by Fulbright Commission of Turkey, U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security)

Essential publications

2023. Wall, J., Lukawiecki, J., Young, R., Powell, L., McAlvay, A., Moola, F. Operationalizing the biocultural perspective part II: A review of biocultural action principles sine The Declaration of Belém.  Environmental Science and Policy 150,103573.

2023. Wall, Jeffrey, Thomas Baker, Caitlin Cunningham, Jessica Lukawiecki, Riley Scanlan, Faisal Moola and Alana Westwood. Seeing and Safeguarding Biocultural Connectivity between Kluskap Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) and the Bras d’Or Lake Biosphere Reserve. Report submitted to the Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources.

2022. Wall, J. The Cultural Value of Trees: Folk Value and Biocultural Conservation. Routledge. Oxon, England.

2021. Wall, J., Köse, N., Aksoy, E., Köse, C., Okan, T., Allred, S. ‘We live and die in chestnut’: Remaining and adapting in the face of pest and disease outbreak in Turkey. Landscape Research 46(7), 992-1003. 

2019. Wall, J., Köse, C., Okan, T., Köse, N., Aksoy, E., Jarvis, D., Allred, S.  The role of traditional livelihood practices and local ethnobotanical knowledge in mitigating chestnut disease and pest severity in Turkey.  Forests 10(7), 571-581.

2018. Wall, J., Aksoy, E., Köse, N., Okan, T., Köse, C. (2018) What women know that men do not about chestnut trees in Turkey: A method of hearing muted knowledge. Journal of Ethnobiology 38(1), 139-155. 

Teaching and supervision

Visiting Professor, School for International Training (SIT), Climate Change and Global Sustainability (2023)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Department of Environmental Studies (2020-2021)

(Co)Supervision 

3 PhD Students: University of Guelph, Canada; Ilia State University, Georgia; and University of Alberta, Canada

2 MSc Students on-going, SIT; 2 MSc students completed, University of Guelph, Canada