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> Natural Resources research group

Xiaoting Hou Jones

Senior researcher (biodiversity), Natural Resources

Xiaoting has more than a decade of experience working on nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.
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She also has a rich research background in a diversity of sustainable development issues ranging from industrial ecology and supply chain management to political economy and managing trade-offs in land-use decisions.

Prior to her position at IIED, she held various positions with local government, NGOs and business consulting companies in China, which built the foundation for her later work on international multi-stakeholder engagement – primarily in the forest sector at The Forests Dialogue.

Before IIED

Program manager, The Forests Dialogue

Education

Master of Environment Management, Yale University; Bachelor in Environment Science and Engineering, Fudan University, China; Bachelor in Economics and Accounting, Fudan University, China

Current work

Nature-based solutions for climate change and mainstreaming nature into development policies.

Interviews

IIED expert interviews: Xiaoting Jones
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Telephone: 
+44 (0) 203 463 7431
Email: 
xiaoting.hou.jones@iied.org
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Languages: English, Mandarin Chinese (native), and Spanish (basic)

Xiaoting Hou Jones's projects

Cultivated fields and forests

Connect: mainstreaming biodiversity information into the heart of government decision making

Project, Jun 2020
The Saloum Delta Biosphere Reserve in Senegal (Photo: El Hadji Ballé Seye/UICN-Sénégal)

EBA Evidence and Policy: Senegal

Project, Apr 2019
Workers digging zaï pits that help to preserve water on farms (Photo: IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Burkina Faso

Project, Jan 2019
Restoring mangroves (Photo: Orsibal Ramírez/IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: El Salvador

Project, Dec 2018
This bridge crossing the Yorkin river in the Sixaola Basin is used daily by local communities, including children on their way to school in the early morning. (Photo: Paul Aragón,©IUCN)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Costa Rica

Project, Dec 2018
The Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve in the Andean highlands, Peru (Photo: Karen Podvin)

EbA Evidence and Policy: Peru

Project, Sep 2018
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Latest publications

Mainstreaming nature in development: A brief guide to political economy analysis for non-specialists, UNEP-WCMC, UK

Mainstreaming biodiversity into government decision-making

Nature-based solutions in action: lessons from the frontline

Global recognition of the importance of nature-based solutions to the impacts of climate change

Food and Forests: Understanding agriculture and conservation trade-offs in Zambia

Thriving in diversity: smallholders organising for climate resilience

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Xiaoting Hou Jones's blog posts

Women bends over a field.

Locally-led nature-based solutions can deliver global leaders’ pledge

Blog, Sep 2021
Water tank made of stones

Working with nature to manage water resources in a changing climate

Blog, Mar 2021
two women with a big basket of corn

Working with nature to build back better from COVID-19: inspirations from farmers in China

Blog, Jun 2020
Two men pushing a boat filled with mangrove seedlings

Finding solutions in nature for climate change

Blog, May 2020
People gathering branches

Nature-based solutions to climate change: stories from Chile

Blog, Dec 2019
Crops float on water

Time to team up with nature to adapt to climate change

Blog, Sep 2019
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Links to other sites

Nature-based solutions in action: lessons from the frontline

Case study, July 2021

 
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