DR ALAN GRAINGER
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
How can we construct reliable scientific knowledge about the global environment and communicate this effectively to international and national policy makers?
Dr Alan Grainger's research interests include the modelling and monitoring of tropical deforestation and land use change, and the study of the role of tropical forest biodiversity and carbon stores in global environmental change. His interests also extend to the fields of sustainable development, desertification, and the analysis of forest policy and institutions.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Improving Thailand's Capacity to Predict Possible Future Impacts of Global Climate Change on its Forest Biodiversity and to Take Preventative Measures.
The World's Forests: Design and Implementation of Effective Measurement and Monitoring.
RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS
- Ecology and Global Change
PUBLICATIONS
- Grainger A., 2009. The role of science in implementing international environmental agreements: the case of desertification.
Land Degradation and Development 20 (in press – available online in “Early View”). - Grainger, A (2008) Difficulties in tracking the long-term global trend in tropical forest area PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 105, 818-823
- Grainger, A (2008) Suffering for territory: Race, place, and power in Zimbabwe CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY, 49 (3) 531-533
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