Areas of professional focus at CDE
- Sustainable Land Management (SLM)
- Integrated watershed and natural resource management and governance
- SLM knowledge management
- Decision support for up-scaling SLM
- Transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge
- Science-policy interface and knowledge co-production
- Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
Projects
- Global Land Programme (Science-Policy Interface)
- Water and Land Resource Centre (WLRC) Project (Ethiopia, Kenya)
- Backstopping Technique : projet gestion intégrée des bassins versants au Moyen Atlas (GIBV-MA), Maroc.
- World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT)
Further professional interests
- Climate change adaptation strategies at the local level
- Impacts of conflict on land use and management
Field experience
- Five years of field experience in the Hindu-Kush-Himalayan region (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan) while based in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- Short-term field experiences in Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Laos.
Languages
German, English, French, Italian, Spanish (basic understanding), Nepali (spoken)
