Dr. Claude Garcia
Dr. Claude Garcia
Staff of Professorship for Ecosystem Management
Research Interests
I want to understand the links between the environment and livelihood in tropical landscapes. I’m particularly interested in how will farmers and forest dwellers cope with change, be it environmental, technological or political, and in the impact on biodiversity of their coping strategies. I maintain that in order for agricultural production to be compatible with biodiversity conservation and rural livelihoods in the tropics, we need to develop approaches that better recognize farmers’ aspirations, needs and constraints.
Projects
- CoForTips: Forests of the Congo Basin: Resilience and Tipping Points (Project leader) Link
- Sentinel Landscapes: Long Term Monitoring of links between forest and tree cover and livelihoods (Western Ghats leader)
- MOCA: Managing Trade-Offs in Coffee Agroforestry Systems (Scientific Advisor)
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications
- Sayer J, T Sunderland, J Ghazoul, J-L Pfund, D Sheil, E Meijaard, M Venter, A Klintuni Boedhihartono, M Day, C Garcia, C van Oosten, and L E Buck (2013) Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation and other competing land uses. PNAS.
- Zorondo-Rodríguez, F, E Gómez-Baggethun, K Demps, P Ariza-Montobbio, C García, and V Reyes-García (2012) What Defines Quality of Life? The Gap Between Public Policies and Locally Defined Indicators Among Residents of Kodagu, Karnataka (India). Social Indicators Research:1-16.
- Macura, B, F Zorondo-Rodriguez, M Grau-Satorras, K Demps, M Laval, C Garcia, and V Reyes-Garcia (2011) Local community attitudes toward forests outside protected areas in India. Impact of legal awareness, trust, and participation. Ecology and Society 16(3):10.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-04242-160310
- Garcia, C, SA Bhagwat, J Ghazoul, CD Nath, KM Nanaya, CG Kushalappa, Y Raghuramulu, R Nasi and P Vaast (2010) Biodiversity Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes: Challenges and Opportunities of Coffee Agroforests in the Western Ghats, India. Conservation Biology. 24:479-488. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01386.x
- Bal, P, CD Nath, KM Nanaya, CG Kushalappa and C Garcia (2011) Elephants Also Like Coffee: Trends and Drivers of Human–Elephant Conflicts in Coffee Agroforestry Landscapes of Kodagu, Western Ghats, India. Environmental Management: 47(5):789. doi: 10.1007/s00267-011-9636-1