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Jessica earned her PhD in Geography from the National University of Singapore in 2020. Her research examines how agrarian change occurs for rural and remote regions in Indonesia and especially for rural young people. Jessica has studied, lived, and worked in Southeast Asia for over a decade.
Selected Publications:
- The inevitability of leaving and the impossibility of staying away: Rural youth migration and agrarian change in Flores, Indonesia. National University of Singapore (unpublished doctoral dissertation).
- Approaching rural young people. Background report for CGIAR’s Forests, Trees and Agroforestry’s Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Strategy. FTA Working Paper No. 1. Bogor, Indonesia: CGIAR, 2019. https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor/007383
- with Sigit D. Sasmito, Pierre Taillardat et al. "Effect of land-use and land-coverchange on mangrove blue carbon: A systematic review." Global Change Biology 25, no. 12 (2019):429–4302. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14774
- "Is education the golden plough?" Inside Indonesia, Edition 134 (2018).
- with Davison Gumbo, Christopher Martius et al. "Carbon stocks and stock changes in miombowoodlands of central and southern Africa – a review of the evidence over 50 years." Journal of Environmental Evidence 7 (2018):16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-018-0128-0
- with Wolfram Dressler, David Wilson et al. "The impact of swidden decline on livelihoods and ecosystem services in Southeast Asia: A review of the evidence from 1990 to 2015." Ambio 46 (2017): 291–301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0836-z