Title: Trees Advocate

Gender: Male

Age: Ageless

Sun Sign: Gemini

Chinese Sign: Water Tiger

Location: Oxford

An environmental scientist and natural resources manager, with an international development background in Latin America and Asia, now based in the UK.

Working on climate change adaptation assignments; and in missions to design and evaluate poverty-reduction and environmental management projects in developing countries.

Specialist in adaptation to climate change and management of the impacts of weather events, he has skills and knowledge in participatory forestry and in watershed management, food security and agroforestry / land-use planning.

Fluent in Spanish, his cross-cutting skills include running effective training programmes, helping make the livelihoods of the rural poor more sustainable, applying best practice, putting research into use, developing policy and capacity-building. His approach ensures good quality participation of local stakeholders.

Experienced in project cycle management, he is an EC-registered expert in Rural Development / Food Security and Environment. He is an APM-certified project practitioner (UK Association for Project Management). Recently has conducted three climate-change vulnerability assessments to support adaptation planning by UK local government authorities.

Specialties:

· Environmental scientist and tropical forester.

· Climate change science, impacts & vulnerability.

· Reducing tropical deforestation, with stakeholders addressing the drivers & generating benefits via sustainable management .

· Management of protected areas & watersheds.

· Participatory forestry & biodiversity conservation.

· Developing agroforestry systems to improve land-use practice.

· Cross-cutting skills in capacity-building, organisational change & rural development.

Member Since: Monday, March 23 2009

Last Visit: 95 days ago.

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