Adaptive collaborative management of community forests in Asia ...

viii • About the Contributors
Godwin Limberg has lived and worked in East Kalimantan, Indonesia,
since 1990. He has been a CIFOR field researcher, focusing on governance
issues and community rights, since 2000. Prior to joining CIFOR, he worked
with the Rio Tinto Foundation, World Wildlife Fund in Kayan Mentarang
National Park, Indonesia, and as a volunteer with a local community
development organisation. He holds a master’s degree in tropical crop
science from Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands.
Cynthia McDougall, Senior Associate with CIFOR, is a social
scientist who focuses on issues of equity, learning and social change. Her
background includes research and/or practice in food security, community
forestry, gender and diversity, and experiential education and facilitation.
She was the team leader for both phases of CIFOR and partners’ adaptive
collaborative management research in Nepal (1999 to 2002 and 2004 to
2007).
Moira Moeliono has been a researcher at CIFOR since 2001, looking
at national-local policy linkages, policy learning at local level and issues of
community involvement in natural resource management.
Hemant R. Ojha has conducted research on policy, institutional
and cultural aspects of natural resource governance in Nepal as well
as internationally. He has conducted extensive theoretical reviews on
knowledge, power and governance and published in journals such as Policy
and Society, International Development Planning Review, International Journal
of Social Economics, Forestry Chronicle and International Forestry Review.
Raj Kumar Pandey is a researcher in the field of environment and
development. He is currently studying issues related to carbon sequestration
as an way to mitigate global climate change. He worked as a field researcher
in the adaptive collaborative management projects in Nepal.
Bishnu Hari Pandit is an independent Research Consultant, currently
working at New ERA in Kathmandu. He graduated with a master’s
degree and Ph.D. from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. He
has experience in several fields of study, including adaptive collaborative
management, forest enterprise development, project evaluation, natural
resource policy and planning, participatory action research, team building
and conflict management. He has written several journal articles,
conference papers and project reports.
Ravi Prabhu is a forester by training. He worked at CIFOR in
Indonesia and Zimbabwe from 1994 until 2006, initiating and leading global
research on criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management and
subsequently adaptive collaborative management of forests in Asia and
Africa. He is currently the Coordinator of the CGIAR’s Regional Plan