PhD Toby Gardner
Research FellowStockholm Environment Institute
Linnégatan 87D Box 24218
10451
Stockhom,
Sweden
Focus area
Biodiversity Knowledge exchange Policy Sustainability Science Tropical forestsContact
toby.gardner@sei-international.org+46 70-363 49 40
http://www.sei-international.org/staff?staffid=374
PhD Toby Gardner
Research fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute
Background
Before
joining SEI Toby was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge for five
years, prior to which he had short postdoctoral positions and Brazil and
Australia. His PhD was based at the University of East Anglia (UK) and focused
on biodiversity in multiple-use forestry landscapes. He has previously worked
in Tanzania on protected area effectiveness, in the Caribbean on large-scale
declines in coral reef ecosystems, and in Belize on amphibian monitoring.
Focus area
The
primary focus of Toby´s work is to assess the challenges facing transitions
towards more sustainable land-use systems, particularly in Brazil. He has over
ten years experience working on science and science-policy issues in
human-modified landscapes across the tropics, with a strong emphasis on the
management and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in multiple-use
agriculture-forestry landscapes, and the difficulties of balancing
environmental concerns with rural development priorities. In 2009 he helped
found and coordinate the Sustainable Amazon Network, a large interdisciplinary
consortium of scientists and graduate students focussed on understanding
land-use sustainability challenges facing rural development in the eastern
Brazilian Amazon.
