Experts in the Field of Development and Environment
Our experts in Development and Environment cover the following research areas:
Please contact one of our experts at for further information.

Agroforestry W. Africa. Species and provenance research (in particular Acacia). Ecophysiology of trees. SAFRUIT project.

Forest-poverty relationships, environmental reliance, livelihood studies, value chain analysis, socio-economy, forests and human health, medicinal plant use and conservation, capacity building, use of technology in teaching, internationalization of educational programmes, sustainable tropical forestry (SUTROFOR), forest and nature for society (FONASO)

Natural Resource Management. Programming and implementation. Conflict Management. Capacity and education development. Support to Policy development.

Urban forestry and urban greening. Green infrastructure planning. Green city branding.

Political economy and processes of natural resources. Taxation of natural resources, and the implications of illegal logging, including the impacts of the FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) and VPAs (Voluntary Partnership Agreements).

International tree breeding networks. Molecular genetics.

Forest policy development. Socio-economy and rural development.

Etnobotany and taxonomy. Conservation of forest genetic resources.

Administration, arrangements and seminars, publication requests & web. Editor of the newsletter Development News.

Community-based natural resources management, democratic decentralization, livelihood studies, environmental impact evaluation.

Tree seed input supply and value chains (including good governance). Planting zones and vegetation mapping. Conservation of tree genetic resources.

General inquiries on forest genetic resources and inquiries to the division.
General inquiries on international work at FLD.

Seed technology and research. Seed leaflets and Technical briefs. Seed bank and Development News. Agroforestry course. Rehabilitation and species selection.

Publication requests. DTP. Subscription of Development News.

NGO and project collaboration, applied research and management and use of forest genetic resources. Institutional capacity building in tree seed sector. Preparation, monitoring and reviewing of development projects.

Participatory forest management.
Policy.
Isabelle Skarvig, - last update:28 November 2011