Learn about key dimensions for successful restoration practice: economics and politics with a focus on considering stakeholder costs and benefits and managing conflict.
Session III: Evidence-based restoration: going local and digging deeper
Meet the speakers
Sven Wunder, European Forest Institute
Sven Wunder (Barcelona, Spain) is principal scientist at the Governance Programme of the European Forest Institute. His research addresses natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, livelihoods, as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation. In particular his work on Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and other incentives and business models for enhancing the provision of ecosystem services has rendered him one of the world’s most cited scientists in the field of economics and business.
Georg Winkel, Wageningen University and Research
Georg Winkel is a professor and chairholder of the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group at Wageningen University. He is a social and environmental scientist with a particular focus on forest and conservation policy and governance. He has extensively worked at the science-policy interface and coordinated large-scale international research consortia involving close interactions with both policy makers and land managers in Europe and beyond
Sara Moreno Pires, University of Aveiro
Sara Moreno Pires is Assistant Professor of Public Policies at the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences (UA) and effective member of GOVCOPP. She is Co-Founder (since 2018) and President (since 2023) of the Environmental Non-Governmental Organization Common Home of Humanity.