Dr. François-Xavier Viallon

François-Xavier Viallon is a postdoctoral researcher in the Research Training Group “Ecological Regime Shifts and Systemic Risk in Coupled Social-Ecological Systems (ECORISK)”. His work within the synthesis project P2 aims at developing an improved understanding of factors that influence systemic risks. The ultimate goal of the project P2 is to derive design principles for the governance systemic risks. To do so, the project uses a diagnostic approach that categorizes various governance challenges related to ecological regime shifts and analyzes the types of responses taking into account the influence of societal, political and economic contexts. It derives different archetypical configurations of risks, which will be classified by degree and nature of complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity. Based on this classification, the project aims at identifying pathways that may lead to an improvement or a decline in risk governance capacity. To identify these pathways and test the empirical validity of the chosen conceptual approach, the project reviews the literature, conducts expert interviews, and carries out in-depth case studies in close collaboration with the different doctoral projects of ECORISK. It analyzes the resulting case collection using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). François-Xavier Viallon completed a Bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Geneva and a Master's degree in public administration at the University of Bern. He wrote his PhD in political science at the University of Lausanne on redistributive instruments in Swiss land policy. His research interests include policy instruments, natural resource management, property rights, and property governance.

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