Isabel Jaisli

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Head Sustainability Transformation and Food Systems
• Head Research Group Geography of Food

Focus

Food system transformation

Teaching

Course responsibility "Agriculture for the future" (Master of Science in Environment and Natural Resources)

Experience

• Project manager renewable energies
  NEK Umwelttechnik AG
  2008 - 2012
• Project staff
  Foundation Vivamos Mejor
  2008 - 2008
• Consultant
  ERM GmbH
  2007 - 2008
• Project development wind energy (UK)
  Energy Kontor UK
  2006 - 2007

Education and Continuing education

Education

• MSc. tropical and international agriculture
  Georg-August University Goettingen
  2004 - 2007
• Diploma in environmental biology
  University of applied sciences Bremen
  1999 - 2004

Continuing Education

• CAS Leadership
  ZHAW
  2018
• CAS Didactics in higher education
  ZHAW
  2014
• MAS Management, Technology and Economics
  ETH Zurich
  2012

Network

Social media

LinkedIn

Projects

• Local Food System Challenges / Project leader / Project ongoing
• ZirkuLAr, alles klar! / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• Ernährungsstrategien für alle / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Neuentwicklung von Labelinfo.ch / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• MOVING – Mountain Valorization through Interconnectedness and Green Growth / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Virtual Summer School - tackling climate change through global learning / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Agrobiodiversity Summer School / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• Participatory decision-making for food system transformation / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Offensive Spezialkulturen / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• WWF Standards Evaluations / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Basismodell Agrarsystem Schweiz / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• MyFoodChoice: Personal values for sustainable consumption / Project leader / Project completed
• Foodscape.ch / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• TRANSFOOD: IMPROVING SUSTAINABILITY IMPACTS OF TRANSNATIONAL FOOD VALUE CHAINS / Project co-leader / Project completed
• AgroInnoTool / Project leader / Project completed
• Pearls of Sustainability / Project leader / Project completed
• Soziale Nachhaltigkeit in Wertschöpfungsketten von Nahrungsmitteln / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Global site assessment for hazelnut production / Project leader / Project completed
• Eco-confession-chair / Project leader / Project completed
• CONSUS / Project leader / Project completed
• Geography of Food Summer School & E-learning Course / Project leader / Project completed
• Life Cycle Assessment of Wind Power / Team member / Project completed
• Urban Wind Farming / Project leader / Project completed
• Windenergiestudie Kanton Schwyz / Project leader / Project completed
• Potential zur Windenergienutzung auf Arealen der SBB / Project leader / Project completed
• Windpark Sattel-Hochstuckli / Project leader / Project completed
• Potential of use of biomass from alpine grassland / Project leader / Project completed
• Beurteilung von Fotovoltaik-Freiflächen-Anlagen / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Grüter, Roman; Trachsel, Tim; Laube, Patrick; Jaisli, Isabel,

  2022.

  Expected global suitability of coffee, cashew and avocado due to climate change.

  PLOS ONE.

  17(1), pp. e0261976.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261976

• Jaisli, Isabel; Bättig-Frey, Petra; Eymann, Lea; Mariani, Ennio; Stucki, Matthias,

  2019.

  Scientainment for sustainability : the eco-confessional as a new approach for life cycle thinking.

  Sustainability.

  11(20), pp. 5686.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205686

• Jaisli, Isabel; Laube, Patrick; Trachsel, Sonja; Ochsner, Pascal; Schuhmacher, Sarah,

  2019.

  Suitability evaluation system for the production and sourcing of agricultural commodities.

  Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.

  161, pp. 170-184.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2018.02.002

• Jaisli, Isabel; Grüter, Roman; Oehen, Bernadette; Pintar, Marina; Kontrakere Basegowda, Umesh,

  2021.

  Geography of food summer school : international exchange for sustainable food value chains

  .

  In:

  Leal Filho, W.; Salvia, A.L.; Brandli, L.; Azeiteiro, U.; Pretorius, R., eds.,

  Universities, Sustainability and Society : Supporting the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

  Springer.

  pp. 107-122.

  World Sustainability Series.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_8

• Jaisli, Isabel; Schmitt, Emilia,

  2019.

  Ernährungsgeographie

  .

  In:

  Kluwick, Ursula; Zemanek, Evi, eds.,

  Nachhaltigkeit interdisziplinär : Konzepte, Diskurse, Praktiken.

  Köln:

  Böhlau Verlag.

  pp. 220-237.

  utb, Kulturwissenschaft ; 5227.

• Jaisli, Isabel; Bättig-Frey, Petra; Itten, René; Stucki, Matthias,

  2018.

  Scientainment for sustainability : the eco-confessional as new approach for awareness raising [poster].

  In:

  1st Life Cycle Innovation Conference (LCIC), Berlin, 29-31 August 2018.

• Schmitt, Emilia; Vukotic, Fabienne; Schwab, Seraina; Jaisli, Isabel; Rieger, Lorenz,

  2018.

  Diversifizierung in der Landwirtschaft : Potentiale der digitalen Vernetzung für Innovationen und Nischenmärkte [poster].

  In:

  Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarsoziologie (SGA).

  Innovation in der Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft, Gränichen, April 2018.

  Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarsoziologie.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3868

• Mariani, Ennio; Jaisli, Isabel,

  2018.

  Didaktische Herausforderungen bei der Erstellung eines frei verfügbaren Onlinekurses [paper].

  In:

  Lucke, Ulrike; Strickroth, Sven, eds.,

  Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit – (k)ein Gegensatz?.

  E- Learning Symposium 2018, Potsdam, Deutschland, 26. November 2018.

  Potsdam:

  Universitätsverlag Potsdam.

  pp. 29-40.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3413

• Trachsel, Sonja; Jaisli, Isabel; Schmitt, Emilia,

  2018.

  Finding and Analysing Social Hotspots in a Global Food Value Chain as a Basis for Livelihood Improvement [paper].

  In:

  13th European IFSA Symposium, 1-5 July 2018, Chania (Greece).

  13th European IFSA Symposium, Chania, Greece, 1-5 July 2018.

  Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania.

  pp. 1-18.

• Schmitt, Emilia; Schwab, Seraina; Vukotic, Fabienne; Jaisli, Isabel,

  2018.

  The potential of digital platforms to facilitate the diffusion of diversification strategies in agriculture [paper].

  In:

  Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, ed.,

  13th European IFSA Symposium.

  13th European IFSA Symposium, Chania, Greece, 1-5 July 2018.

  IFSA.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3875

• Mariani, Ennio; Schmitt, Emilia; Jaisli, Isabel,

  2020.

  Foodscape - Begleitdossier für Lehrpersonen : Lernspiel und Unterrichtsmaterial zum Schweizer Ernährungssystem.

  Wädenswil:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21287

• Jaisli, Isabel,

  2020.

  Wege zu einem nachhaltigen Schweizer Ernährungssystem.

  ProClim Flash.

  2020(72), pp. 12-13.

  Available from: http://proclim.ch/id/xVhYd

• Jaisli, Isabel,

  2019.

  Digitale Bildung zur Nachhaltigkeit.

  LVT Lebensmittel Industrie.

  2019(1-2).

• Jaisli, Isabel; Corrêa da Silva, Marcelo; Rossi Borges, João Augusto; Stucki, Matthias; Favarini Ruviaro, Claudio; de Faria Domingues, Carla Heloisa,

  2019.

  Food trade between Brazil and Switzerland : pathways to drive family farming and sustainability [paper].

  In:

  Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarsoziologie (SGA), Wädenswil, 4.-5. April 2019.

  Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarsoziologie.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3319

• Jaisli, Isabel; Mariani, Ennio; Meier, Rahel; Rieger, Lorenz; Daniel, Burkart,

  2018.

  Designing sustainable food systems : an open E-learning course.

  Wädenswil:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: http://gof-summerschool.org/elearning/

• Jaisli, Isabel; Schmitt, Emilia,

  2017.

  Geography of food summer school : designing food value chains [poster].

  In:

  1st Global Conference of the 10 YFP Sustainable Food Systems Programme, Pretoria, 23 June 2017.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3663

• Jaisli, Isabel; Stauffacher, Sabine,

  2016.

  CONSUS : ein neues Tool für die Agrarplanung.

  Transfer.

  2016(1), pp. 3.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-5720

• Jaisli, Isabel; Laube, Patrick,

  2015.

  Food production in smallholder farming systems : developing a spatially explicit decision-model for trade opportunities [poster].

  In:

  Tackling World Food System Challenges: Across Disciplines, Sectors, and Scales, Ascona, 22. Juni 2015.

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3737

• Jaisli, Isabel; Rohrer, Jürg; Stucki, Matthias,

  2014.

  Macht Fotovoltaik im freien Gelände Sinn? [poster].

  In:

  12. Nationale Photovoltaik-Tagung 2014, Lausanne, 10. April 2014.

• Geiser, Anna; Schmitt, Emilia; Jaisli, Isabel,

  2022.

  Cereal production in a Swiss mountain region : analysing drivers of change for more resilient mountain food systems.

  In:

  14th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE 2022), Pisa, Italy, 14-17 June 2022.

• Trachsel, Sonja; Jaisli, Isabel; Lüchinger, Moritz,

  2020.

  Motivations for sufficiency in individual dietary decisions : a typology.

  In:

  The 8th World Sustainability Forum, virtual, 15-17 September 2020.

• Jaisli, Isabel; Bischof, Tom; Mariani, Ennio; Meier, Rahel; Rieger, Lorenz,

  2018.

  Educating for sustainable food value chains : insights from an open online course.

  In:

  Tropentag 2018 : Global food security and food safety: the role of universities.

  Tropentag 2018, Ghent, Belgium, 17-19 September 2018.

  Weikersheim:

  Margraf Publishers.

• Jaisli, Isabel; Bättig-Frey, Petra,

  2017.

  Ökobeichtstuhl - Provoking and Entertaining : Confessions of a ‘Scientainment’ Project.

  In:

  EUPRIO Conference, Mannheim, Deutschland, 1. Juli 2017.

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