Jean-Baptiste Jouffray

Jean-Baptiste Jouffray is a Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, where he focuses on the interlinked social, economic, and ecological challenges that shape the new global ocean context. His research spans a broad range of methods and topics, including indicators for effective coral reef management, access and benefit-sharing of marine genetic resources, gender and fisheries, sustainable finance, corporate reporting, and science-industry collaboration. A common thread throughout has been the aspiration to translate knowledge into impact. He is currently investigating the sustainability and equity dimensions of sand extraction, the world’s single most mined material and an essential fabric of modern society. Jean-Baptiste holds a PhD in Sustainability Science from the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University.

King Center Supported Research

2023 - 2024 Academic Year | Global Development Research Funding

Towards sustainable and equitable use of ocean sand 

Sand forms the literal and figurative foundations upon which the future of coastal communities, biodiversity, and multi-billion-dollar ocean industries rest, yet no one talks about it. Who is mining ocean sand, where, how much, and for what? On one end lies a highly industrialized dredging sector with a few global dominant firms and at the other, poor and often marginalized groups with shovels, buckets and trucks. At the heart of this project is the idea of ocean sand as a holistic approach to the sustainability and equity challenges posed by sand mining and dredging in the marine and coastal environment.