Dr. Jeffrey Wall specializes in advancing ethnoecological methods and theories which bring the environmental values of distinct cultures and traditions into meaningful conversation with each other. He has focused on threatened culturally significant landscapes in numerous countries in the Near East, Central Asia and North America.   

His current MSCA-sponsored research project, " Homeland No More: Seeking the Biocultural Origins of Landscape Abandonment in the Mediterranean Basin," works collaboratively with olive-caring communities in Turkey and Morocco to generate empirical evidence and explanations of the cultural-ecological pre-conditions of rural exodus. Based in a commitment to engaging and amplifying the environmental quality assessment of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities over time, this grassroots effort promises to enhance the ability and inclination of researchers, decision makers and the broader public to acknowledge and affect the relationships between ubiquitous global ecological change and the worldwide decline in rural lifeway viability.