International Forest Policy - An overview

KSLA has published a report that summarise the global forest politics, its conventions, international cooperation and policies regarding forest and forestry.

Student thesis: Performance of Jatropha biodiesel production and its environmental and socio-economic impacts

Lisa Axelsson and Maria Franzén studied the master's programme Industrial Ecology. Their master's thesis addressed cultivation of Jatropha, an oil-crop used for producing biodiesel. The thesis identified the barriers farmers face in cultivation and assessed the environmental and socioeconomic impact.

Post Doctoral Fellow, CIFOR

Nov 11, 2010

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has an open position as "Post Doctoral Fellow, GCS-REDD".

PhD position

Oct 29, 2010

Department of Forest Ecology and Management in Umeå (Sweden) has two PhD positions available

Focali Country Brief - Malaysia

Focali Country Brief 2010:03 by Lisa Westholm.

Student thesis: Payments for Environmental Services in the Campohermoso watershed

Jörgen Pettersson has studied Environmental Science with a specialisation in Environmental Economics. He has worked as a research assistant within Focali. Here you can find his masterthesis "Payments for Environmental Services in the Campohermoso watershed - Measuring opportunity costs and identifying determinants"

Can Strategical Environmental Assessment (SEA) of REDD+ improve policy making and forest governance - Lessons learned from the World Bank pilot program on SEA in policy and sector reform

An article written by the Focali researcher Anders Ekbom among others. It was presented at the 2nd UNITAR-Yale Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy the 17-19th of September.

Short-term consultant scientist, ICRAF

Sep 29, 2010

Short-term consultant scientist for Rewards for Environmental Services and Reduced Emission from All Land Uses in Ba Be district, Bac Kan province, Vietnam