FOCALI - Key Persons
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- Researcher and Project Leader at Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences GU and Director of Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre ( GGBC )
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- Project Manager
- Deputy Director of Gothenburg Centre for Environment and Sustainability, GMV, and Team Leader of GMV 's Environmental Economics and Policy Group
Anders is the project manager for Focali. He has a PhD in Environmental Economics.
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- Climate Change Scientist, Project Leader World Agroforestry Centre, ICRAF Vietnam
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- Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban and Rural Development, SLU
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- Landscape Ecologist and Head of Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, SU
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- Communications Officer, GMV
- Communications Support
Linda has previously been the interim coordinator of Focali and is currently supporting Focali's research communication and administration. She also works with Madelene Ostwald as the assistant theme leader of theme 2 on multifunctional landscapes in AgriFoSe2030.
Background
Linda has a BSc in biology and an MSc in environmental science from University of Gothenburg. Her main areas of interest lies within effects of land use changes on carbon storage and livelihood, in forest landscapes as well as agricultural landscapes. For the BSc thesis she investigated differences in fine-root carbon storage between primary and secondary montane tropical rainforests in Rwanda, under the supervision of Focalimember Göran Wallin. In her MSc thesis she investigated impacts of converting pastures to largescale biofuel plantations (eucalyptus) on socioeconomic factors, carbon storage and biodiversity in Colombia, under the supervision of Focalimember Matilda Palm.
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- Associate Professor
- Leader in New AgriFoSe Programme
Madelene Ostwald is associate professor of geography with specialisation in physical geography.
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- Research Fellow at SEI Headquarters and Research Coordinator Trase Earth
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- Project Coordinator
- Project Manager
- Contact Project Manager
- Project Coordinator of Focali at Centre for Sustainable Development - GMV, University of Gothenburg.
- Project Manager, GMV
Maria Ölund is the project coordinator of Focali (Forest, Climate and Livelihood Research Network) at GMV - Centre for Sustainable Development in Gothenburg and is the project coordinator of LARRI (Land Rights Research Initiative).
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- in Physical Geography / Physical Resource Theory
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- Senior Lecturer, Sustainability Science, LUCSUS, LU
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- Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research at Lund University
Background
Yann Clough is a researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research at Lund University. He is trained as an agricultural scientist and ecologist. He has received research grants from BiodivERsA and FACCE-JPI, the German Research Foundation and the strategic research area Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate (BECC), amongst others. He co-leads the Ecosystem Services theme in BECC.
Gras, P., Tscharntke, T., Maas, B., Tjoa, A., Hafsah, A., and Clough, Y. (2016) How ants, birds and bats affect crop yield along shade gradients in tropical cacao agroforestry. Journal of Applied Ecology 53: 953-963.