| Prof Jack Rieley |
Prof Rieley is special professor in geography at
the University of Nottingham with 40 years experience
of vegetation, ecology, nutrient cycling and nature
conservation of peatland ecosystems. For the last
20 years he has focussed his research on lowland tropical
peatlands of Southeast Asia where he established the
Kalimantan Tropical Peat Swamp Forest Research Programme.
He has been a lead partner in a Darwin Initiative
Project and three EU INCO Projects investigating the
biodiversity, natural resource functions, sustainable
management and restoration of tropical peatlands.
He is an acknowledged international expert in these
fields and has presented much of his knowledge in
International conferences, symposia and workshops
and in peer reviewed scientific papers. He is a member
of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel and the
Co-ordinating Committee for Global Action on Peatlands
of the Ramsar Convention.
|
Dr Sarah Jewitt
Senior Lecturer |
Dr Jewitt is a Geographer by training
with research interests in rural development, agriculture,
indigenous knowledge systems, gender, forest management
and common property resources. She is particularly interested
in the development of sustainable agrarian livelihoods
using villager-led solutions to existing agrarian constraints.
Current activities include collaborative research on
the restoration of tropical peat swamp forest to promote
sustainable livelihoods in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam
as part of an international team funded by the EUINCO-DEV
Programme. She is experienced in the use of participatory
appraisal, semi-structured interviews, focus groups,
questionnaire surveys and participant observation. |
