Werner Mbongo
Werner’s work concerns natural resources management in Namibia where he worked for the Directorate of Forestry and for Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), and also in Sweden at the Swedish forest department (Skogsstyrelsen) and currently at the Southern Sweden Forest Research Centre (Institutionen för sydsvensk skogsvetenskap). His work revolves around:
- Establishment of Community Forests, woodlots and fruit tree orchards
- Establishment of cross-sectoral river basin management committees within the IWRM framework
- Socio-economic and natural resources assessment surveys
- Preparation of course materials and presentation of training courses:-
Sustainable development and environmentally-sound decision making;
Strategic environmental assessment for land use planning, and
Constructive negotiation in environmental issues -:
to natural resources and land-use management practitioners and institutions.
Werner’s research work includes:
- his MSc. thesis work: “Institutional arrangements and coordination mechanisms to implement natural resource management s trategies in Namibia”,
- assisting in the selection and marking of trees for different thinning intensities in birch stands in Sweden;
- data collection and registration of larch seedlings’ growth development;
- literature review on the effects of timber markets of increased carbon sequestration in forests with reference to REDD;
- up-dating a matrix growth model for the Swedish forest using Swedish National Forest Inventory data.
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- Establishment of Community Forests, woodlots and fruit tree orchards
- Establishment of cross-sectoral river basin management committees within the IWRM framework
- Socio-economic and natural resources assessment surveys
- Preparation of course materials and presentation of training courses:-
Sustainable development and environmentally-sound decision making;
Strategic environmental assessment for land use planning, and
Constructive negotiation in environmental issues -:
to natural resources and land-use management practitioners and institutions.
Werner’s research work includes:
- his MSc. thesis work: “Institutional arrangements and coordination mechanisms to implement natural resource management s trategies in Namibia”,
- assisting in the selection and marking of trees for different thinning intensities in birch stands in Sweden;
- data collection and registration of larch seedlings’ growth development;
- literature review on the effects of timber markets of increased carbon sequestration in forests with reference to REDD;
- up-dating a matrix growth model for the Swedish forest using Swedish National Forest Inventory data.
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