Verdisetting

Jiska Joanneke Van Dijk

• Completed course Transformational leadership for sustainability (cCHANGE, Oslo): 2019
• Completed Teachers training (pedagogic & didactic) - Environmental Education: June 2015
• Working in the field of Human behaviour, transformative change and sustainability
• Working in the field of landscape ecology and landscape planning issues
• Working in the field of inter and transdisciplinary research
• Working in the field of Ecosystem Services and valuation
• Strong in participatory prosesses and dialogues
• Strong in Science-Policy Interface processes (Alternet & EKLIPSE)
• Otter expert - Norwegian representative IUCN-Otters SSG
• Over 15 years of experience in brown bear, wolverine and otter research
• Extensive field work and working in remote areas, data analyses and writing scientific papers, as well as dissemination of salient results
• Over 15 years of experience in project coordination, teamwork and supervising students

David Barton

Barton has conducted a number of projects related to economic valuation methods and economic analysis of multiple use conflict in wetlands, watershed and coastal resources; including cost-benefit analysis of environmental objectives in several river basins subject to the EU Water Framework Directive (Norway) cost-effectiveness analysis of groundwater protection (Norway); non-market valuation and benefit-cost analysis of clean-up measures for contaminated marine sediments (Norway);economic evaluation of pollution abatement and flood mitigation measures in watershed management (Norway); valuation of water quality (Norway), economic evaluation of upland small-holder soil conservation practices in watershed management (Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador); feasibility studies of flood mitigation (Nicaragua), economic evaluation of conservation areas (Costa Rica); economic valuation of water and sanitation projects in coastal zones (Costa Rica); natural resource damage valuation of oil spills in coastal zones (Sri Lanka); cost-effectiveness and multiple criteria analysis of lake restoration measures (Inner Mongolia, China); economic impact analysis of toxic algal blooms (Uganda); feasibility of payments for watershed environmental services (Karnataka,India) and of weather indexed crop insurance (Andrah Pradesh, India), feasibility of agroforestry systems in semi-arid ecoregions (Mali, Senegal, Nicaragua); the role of economic instruments in policy mixes for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision in forests (EU, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia); the Norwegian Research Council financed PESILA-REDD project on the evaluation of payments for ecosystem services in the context of REDD+(Costa Rica, Colombia); economic valuation of urban ecosystem services(EU, Norway).