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Jean-Luc Kouassi

Unité Mixte de Recherche et d'Innovation Sciences Agronomiques et Procédés de Transformation · Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouet-Boigny

https://researchid.co/maculata
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12Scopus Publications
434Google Scholar Citations
11Google Scholar h-index
11Google Scholar i10-index

Research Interests

Community Forestry, Environmental and Natural Resources Economics, Valorisation of non-timber forest products, beekeeping, Agroforestry, Fire Ecology, Fire Impacts and Management

Biography

Jean-Luc Kouassi is a Fire Ecology, (Agro)forestry & GIS Scientist, working on designing and implementing climate change mitigation programmes. Jean-Luc is an Assistant Professor at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny National Polytechnic Institute (INP-HB). He also graduated from the INP-HB with a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences and Rural Engineering (2019) and an Engineering degree in Forestry (2014). He is an experienced scientist involved in several forestry and agroforestry, ecosystem and fire management, sustainable agriculture, agricultural training, GIS and geospatial data application projects and consultancies. He is passionate about development and research initiatives in forestry/environmental management and empowering communities. He is the author and co-author of several scientific articles and conference papers on fire management, cocoa agroforestry and on-farm shade tree management and deforestation monitoring.

Recent Scopus Publications

  1. Beyond degradation metrics: Ecological value of degraded forests and implications for evidence-based forest policy in Côte d'Ivoire
    Scientific African, 2026
  2. Cities and climate change: combining bibliometric trends and city-level evidence to understand the connections between urban resilience and adaptive capacity
    Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 2026
  3. HTAP3 Fires: towards a multi-model, multi-pollutant study of fire impacts
    Geoscientific Model Development, 2025
  4. Drivers of cocoa agroforestry adoption by smallholder farmers around the Taï National Park in southwestern Côte d’Ivoire
    Scientific Reports, 2023
  5. Exploring spatio-temporal trends and environmental drivers of wildfire occurrence and impacts in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa
    African Journal of Ecology, 2022

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