Gert-Jan Nabuurs is professor European forest resources at Wageningen University and senior researcher at Wageningen Environmental Research, WUR.
Background. His background is in European scale forest resource analyses, and management under climate change and has a PhD from University of Joensuu. His work has both scientific aspects as well as applied aspects with large outreach to the forest sector. He started the work with the EFISCEN model, the European forest resource, forest management and carbon balance model. Applications are in wood availability, effects of forest management, climate change impacts and CO2 sequestration.
Further he was Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of the Agriculture and Forestry chapter in the IPCC 6AR. He was CLA in the IPCC Good Practice Guidance for greenhouse reporting in the land use sector in 2003. He was Assistant Director of the European Forest Institute in Finland from 2009-2012. He leads the Dutch forest climate pilots under the Climate Accord, a 2.3 M€/y program with 38 partners from Dutch sector www.climatesmartforestry.eu . Furthermore he leads and is involved in six EU projects on forest and climate change, including a large one on forest restoration in Europe: SUPERB www.forest-restoration.eu
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