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Lifetime Achievement Award of the Environmental Law Institute, and the Blue Planet
Prize. Publications include Global Environmental Governance, Red Sky at Morning:
America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, Worlds Apart: Globalization and the
Environment, and articles in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Environmental Science and
Technology, the Columbia Journal of World Business, and other journals and books.
Dietmar Stoian heads the Center for Competitiveness of Ecoenterprises (CeCoEco)
at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica. He earned his Ph.D. in Forest Economics from
Freiburg University. In 1993 he analyzed the potential of exporting certified wood
furniture from Brazil into Europe. In the late 1990s he formed part of the group that
elaborated the Bolivian standards for Brazil nut certification. In 2001 he published the
article “Forest Certification at the Crossroads: Between Panacea and Impasse” (in
Spanish). CeCoEco runs various projects that seek to foster the trade in certified
wood products, including the bilingual website EcoNegocios Forestales – Forest
EcoBusiness (www.catie.ac.cr/econegociosforestales).
Maria Tysiachniouk holds a Master of Science in Environmental Studies from Bard
College, NY, a Ph.D. in Biology from the Russian Academy of Sciences and a
Certificate in Nonprofit Studies from Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at
Herzen Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University, Johns
Hopkins University, Dickinson College, PA, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Towson
University, and short courses at several universities in Europe. Dr. Tysiachniouk has
written more than eighty publications on topics related to the third sector and has
had fieldwork experience in Kamchatka and the Far East. She is currently chairing the
Environmental Sociology group at the Center for Independent Social Research, St.
Petersburg, Russia and doing field research on global forest governance as well as
investigating the role of non-profit organizations in social transformation. Dr.
Tysiachniouk studied the role of transboundary environmental organizations in
promoting forest certification in Russia, Brazil and China. She recently published a
book, Ecological Modernization of the Forest Sector in Russia and the United States, in
which certification is a key component.
Morgan Wairiu is currently Deputy Director of Environmental Concerns Action
Network of Solomon Islands (ECANSI), a local NGO, which promotes eco-forestry
and community forest management in collaboration with Solomon Islands
Development Trusts (SIDT) eco-forestry and forest certification program. He has
served as Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Solomon Islands) and
Manager of Secretariat of the Marau Communities Association (MCA) involved in
promoting sustainable livelihood projects. He completed his Ph.D. from Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio, USA in 2001, having studied erosion and land use effects
under subsistence agriculture on sloping lands in Solomon Islands. He served as head
of Kolombangara Forest Products Limited’s (KFPL) Technical Services Department
and directed its forest silvilcultural operations and Environmental Monitoring. He
collaborated in the initial process towards FSC certification of KFPL plantation in 1998.
For his Master of Science research, he worked with the Scottish Forest Commission.
yale school of forestry & environmental studies