Dr Jeanne Nel
Dr Jeanne Nel is a Principal Researcher in biodiversity and ecosystem services at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa. She has 15 years of experience in undertaking research relevant to water management and policy within the fields of in biodiversity, ecosystem services and human wellbeing, and sustainability science. She has a PhD in water resource and conservation planning and has been involved in a number of collaborative projects and programmes aimed at identifying freshwater ecosystem priorities, and developing appropriate region-specific mechanisms for their conservation.
Jeanne serves as a GreenMatter Senior Fellow, which is a fellowship designed to connect a community of outstanding biodiversity champions and leaders, to support their professional development and positively profile their work and the biodiversity sector. She has served as past President of the Freshwater Working Group of the Society for Conservation Biology (an international body of conservation scientists), is a Board Member on the Freshwater Monitoring Working Group of GEOBON (the global biodiversity observation network), and is a member of the Scientific Committee of ecoSERVICES, a project of DIVERSITAS/Future Earth (http://www.diversitas-international.org/activities/research/ecoservices).
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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Roux, D.J., Ashton, P.J., Nel, J.L. and MacKay, H.M. 2008. Improving cross-sector policy integration and cooperation in support of freshwater conservation. Conservation Biology 22: 1382-1387.
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Nel, J.L., Roux, D.J., Cowling, R.M., Abell, R., Ashton, P.J., Higgins, J.A., Thieme, M., Viers, J.C. 2009. Progress and challenges in freshwater conservation planning. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater ecosystems 19: 474-485.
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Nel, J.L., Reyers, B., Roux, D.J. and Cowling, R.M. 2009. Expanding protected areas beyond their terrestrial comfort zone: identifying spatial options for river conservation. Biological Conservation 142: 1605–1616.
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Nel, J. L., Le Maitre, D. C., Nel, D. C., Reyers, B., Archibald, S., van Wilgen, B. W., et al. 2014. Natural Hazards in a Changing World: A Case for Ecosystem-Based Management. PloS One, 9: e95942.
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Nel, J.L., Roux, D.J., Driver, A., Hill, L., Maherry, A., Snaddon, K., Petersen, C., Smith-Adao, L.B., Van Deventer, H., and Reyers, B. in review. Knowledge co-production and boundary work to promote implementation of conservation plans. Conservation Biology.
CURRENT PROJECTS
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Identifying and protecting strategic ecological infrastructure for water security
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Cross-sectoral policy integration for water ecosystems
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Advancing Experimental Ecosystem Accounting
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Developing a southern African community of practicing scientists in ecosystem service assessment
NETWORKS
Green Matter
ecoSERVICES
GEO BON Freshwater Working Group
Southern African Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society
ES modeling and mapping
Multi-functional landscapes
Knowledge co-production/exchange
Policy and practice – uptake/impact
Water security