Research topic

Ecosystem Accounting

Signe Nybø

  • Project management
  • Ecosystem condition and ecosystem accounting
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Nature Index of Norway http://www.naturindeks.no/
  • Radioecology
  • Restoring nature
  • Sustainable development with the focus on biodiversity
  • Synthesis

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David Barton

Ecosystem accounting, Environmental impact assessment (EIA), natural resource damage assessment (NRDA), non-market valuation of environmental impacts, environmental and economic risk analysis, decision-support systems and analysis, water resource economics, integrated water resource modelling and management.


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Graciela Monica Rusch

Wide research interests on plant sciences, specifically on functional ecology, ecosystem function and ecological processes related to land-use, herbivory and the maintenance and management of biological diversity. Extensive international experience including research and consultancy projects in Europe, North America, South and Central America, and East Africa. Experience of project coordination including a number of international projects (Research Council of Norway and EU). A number of these projects are cross-disciplinary with components of ecology/biology and social/economic sciences. The work related to the projects have comprised own research, supervision of MSc and PhD students, consultancy and project coordination activities.


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Trond Simensen

Simensen's research is focused on landscape characterization and mapping, landscape ecology and land use-, land cover- and landscape changes. He has 20 years of professional experience from spatial planning and nature management, including work experience from Norway, Chile, Turkey, Uganda, South Africa, and the USA. With experience as a practitioner, a government employee and as a scientist, Simensen has extensive experience in handling questions at the science-policy interface. Simensen holds a PhD in ecology from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo. He holds a Master's degree (Cand. agric.) in landscape architecture from the agricultural university at Ås (NMBU).


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Anders Kolstad

  • Ecological Condition Assessment
  • Vegetation and plants
  • Large herbivores
  • Biodiversity
  • Carbon dynamics
  • Decomposition
  • Statistics
  • Remote sensing


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Frank Ole Hanssen

  • Cartography, GIS and remote sensing
  • Spatial modelling and analysis
  • Tool development (ESRI ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online/Enterprise, Google Earth Engine)
  • Cloud computing (Google Earth Engine)
  • Project management and counseling 

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Ecosystem Accounting

Signe Nybø

  • Project management
  • Ecosystem condition and ecosystem accounting
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Nature Index of Norway http://www.naturindeks.no/
  • Radioecology
  • Restoring nature
  • Sustainable development with the focus on biodiversity
  • Synthesis

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David Barton

Ecosystem accounting, Environmental impact assessment (EIA), natural resource damage assessment (NRDA), non-market valuation of environmental impacts, environmental and economic risk analysis, decision-support systems and analysis, water resource economics, integrated water resource modelling and management.


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Graciela Monica Rusch

Wide research interests on plant sciences, specifically on functional ecology, ecosystem function and ecological processes related to land-use, herbivory and the maintenance and management of biological diversity. Extensive international experience including research and consultancy projects in Europe, North America, South and Central America, and East Africa. Experience of project coordination including a number of international projects (Research Council of Norway and EU). A number of these projects are cross-disciplinary with components of ecology/biology and social/economic sciences. The work related to the projects have comprised own research, supervision of MSc and PhD students, consultancy and project coordination activities.


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Trond Simensen

Simensen's research is focused on landscape characterization and mapping, landscape ecology and land use-, land cover- and landscape changes. He has 20 years of professional experience from spatial planning and nature management, including work experience from Norway, Chile, Turkey, Uganda, South Africa, and the USA. With experience as a practitioner, a government employee and as a scientist, Simensen has extensive experience in handling questions at the science-policy interface. Simensen holds a PhD in ecology from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo. He holds a Master's degree (Cand. agric.) in landscape architecture from the agricultural university at Ås (NMBU).


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Anders Kolstad

  • Ecological Condition Assessment
  • Vegetation and plants
  • Large herbivores
  • Biodiversity
  • Carbon dynamics
  • Decomposition
  • Statistics
  • Remote sensing


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Frank Ole Hanssen

  • Cartography, GIS and remote sensing
  • Spatial modelling and analysis
  • Tool development (ESRI ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online/Enterprise, Google Earth Engine)
  • Cloud computing (Google Earth Engine)
  • Project management and counseling 

Show full profile of Frank Ole Hanssen

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