A WORLD FOREST OBSERVATORY Alan Grainger - DPI - Inpe
A WORLD FOREST OBSERVATORY Alan Grainger - DPI - Inpe
A WORLD FOREST OBSERVATORY Alan Grainger - DPI - Inpe
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A <strong>WORLD</strong> <strong>FOREST</strong> <strong>OBSERVATORY</strong><br />
<strong>Alan</strong> <strong>Grainger</strong><br />
School of Geography<br />
University of Leeds
DEFICIENCIES IN<br />
INSTITUTIONS<br />
• ”Enduring regularities of human action …<br />
structured by rules, norms and shared<br />
strategies” (Crawford and Ostrom, 1995)<br />
• Governments and FAO have institutions for<br />
international forest monitoring<br />
• Scientists do not
Incompatibility Between<br />
Scientific and UN Institutions<br />
<strong>Grainger</strong> A. 2007. The influence of<br />
end-users on the temporal consistency<br />
of an international statistical process:<br />
the case of tropical forest statistics.<br />
Journal of Official Statistics 23: 553-<br />
592.
World Forest Observatory<br />
• GLOBAL<br />
• REGIONAL<br />
• NATIONAL<br />
Structure
Regional Centres<br />
• Africa - e.g. NASA GSFC/UM<br />
• Asia - e.g. JRC<br />
• Latin America - e.g. INPE
The Role of WFO Centre<br />
• Assurance for donors<br />
• Space agency liaison<br />
• Public face<br />
• Central database collation and outreach<br />
• Research centre
An International<br />
Laboratory
Outreach:<br />
Visitors’ Centre
• Funding<br />
Obstacles and Solutions<br />
• National sovereignty claims<br />
• The best model for an international<br />
scientific organization
A <strong>WORLD</strong> <strong>FOREST</strong> <strong>OBSERVATORY</strong><br />
Involving and Giving
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