Hajjar, Reem
Position Type:
Faculty
Job Title:
Associate Professor
Department:
Forest Ecosystems & Society
Office Location:
350 Richardson Hall
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Advising:
Graduate Major Advisor
Education
Ph.D. (Forestry): University of British Columbia
M.A. (Conservation Biology): Columbia University
B.Sc (Biology): McGill University
Research Areas
Social Science, Policy and Natural Resources
Integrated Social and Ecological Systems
Research Interests
- Community Forestry
- International Forestry
- Social Science
International and multi-level forest governance; community forestry; socio-ecological systems; forests and livelihoods; social science research methods.
Graduate Students:
Courses Taught:
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NR 202Natural Resources Problems and Solutions
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FES 422/522Research Methods in Social Science
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FES 525Interdisciplinary approaches to social-ecological problems
Selected Publications:
- Hajjar, R., Oldekop, J. A., Cronkleton, P., Newton, P., Russell, A. J. M., & Zhou, W. (2021). A global analysis of the social and environmental outcomes of community forests. Nature Sustainability, 4(March), 216–224.
- Hajjar, R., Zavaleta Cheek, J., Jagger, P., Kamoto, J., Newton, P., Oldekop, J.A., Razafindratsima, O. (2021) Research frontiers on forests, trees, and poverty dynamics. Forest Policy and Economics. 131, 102554.
- Hajjar, R., Engbring, G., & Kornhauser, K. (2021). The impacts of REDD+ on the social-ecological resilience of community forests. Environmental Research Letters, 16, 024001.
- Hajjar, R., Ayana, A., Rutt, R., Hinde, O., Liao, C., Keene, S., Bandiaki-Badji, S., Agrawal, A. (2019). Capital, labor, and gender: The consequences of large-scale land transactions on household labor allocation. Journal of Peasant Studies, 47, 566-588.
- Hajjar, R., Newton, P., *Adshead, D., *Bogaerts, M., Luis Fernando Guedes, P., *Maguire-Rajpaul, V., McDermott, C. L., Milder, J. C., Wollenberg, E., Agrawal, A. (2019). Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil. Journal of Cleaner Production, 206, 124-132.
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