Sandra Velarde
In 2010, I enrolled at the Australian National University for a PhD in Environmental Management and Development after completing country study to support a full carbon accounting system in Peru. CSIRO is sponsoring part of this new challenge.
In 2008, I returned to my country for a year after 7 years abroad. It has been an excellent experience. Not only did I meet old friends and colleagues, but also I managed to build new networks and started exciting environmental economics and education work in different places of the Peruvian Amazon. From mid 2009, I have been back to ASB-World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) for capacity building and research on Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), having stronger links with ICRAF Peru offices, the Ministry of Environment and local NGOs.
I am a Forest Engineer from Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (Lima, Perú) and MSc. in Ecological Economics from the University of Edinburgh
My research interests are carbon and environmental economics, deforestation, degradation, climate change, environmental education, green businesses and investment, knowledge management and facilitation.
In 2007-8, I moved to the Amazon to work as Coordinator for Communications and Management for the Amazon Initiative in the city of Belém do Pará, north of Brazil.
From 2003 to mid 2007, I have worked at the ASB-Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins as Programme Officer for the ASB-Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) funded by the Dutch government. The ASB programme is based at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya and the MA project took me to Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil, Peru as well as Sweden, Egypt and the USA.
Before going to Nairobi I worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Headquarters in Rome, Italy. I wrote the report on socio-economic trends and outlook study up to 2020 as contribution to the Latin American Forestry Sector Outlook Study (LAFSOS).
If you would like to know more about me, have a look at my CV, Projects, Personal interests or post a comment here.
Estuve leyendo tus comentarios en relación con Apurimac (soy de Andahuaylas) y al revisar tu página encontré que eres de la UNA.
Hay un proyecto que creo te interesará si visitas:
http://www.qoripacha.com/DetallesDelProyecto.aspx?ProjectId=9
Si deseas mas detalles encantado de conversar contigo.
Hola Sandra:
Estaba leyendo la página http://www.ambienteycomercio.org y encontré tu comentario que hizo referencia a Australia y la perspectiva política de ese país con respecto a Cancun. Pensé en escribirte porque soy un Australiano(!) que está estudiando una maestria en relaciones internacionales en Buenos Aires, y uno de mis profesores es Soledad Aguilar, que es fundadora de la página de ambiente y comercio. Mi tesis de la maestria es sobre la posicion de Brasil en las negociaciones internacionales de cambio climatico.
En esto momento, y hasta marzo, estoy de vuelta en Australia. Si uno de de estos dias estás de paseo en Melbourne, yo estaría interesado en hablar con vos sobre sus experiencias y trabajo en Brasil.
Saludos,
Asher