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The
Partners
Dr. Carolyn
Peach Brown
Carolyn
is an expert in environmental and community-based natural resource
management with 20 years of international experience. She is
currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in the Global
Environmental Change Group, Department
of Geography, University
of Guelph. Her current research focuses on institutional
arrangements for climate change adaptation in the Congo Basin.
She obtained her Ph.D. in 2005 from Cornell
University in Natural
Resource Policy and Management with minors in Adult Education
and Conservation and Sustainable Development. Her research for
her doctorate focused on strategies for community-based management
of non-timber forest products in Cameroon. Prior to her doctoral
studies, Carolyn gained extensive grass roots experience in
program development, facilitation and evaluation, through working
in the Democratic Republic of Congo in partnership with a national
organization in capacity-building of civil society groups for
agricultural and community development. In addition, through
the use of participatory monitoring and evaluation workshops,
she trained national leaders to evaluate community health and
development activities. Carolyn has also written on linking
policy and poverty reduction strategies for the forest dependent
poor. With a strong background in ecology, she also has competencies
in stakeholder consultation and qualitative and quantitative
methodologies of research. In her work, Carolyn places an emphasis
on issues related to gender equality and the inclusion of ethnic
minorities in natural resource management. Carolyn has lectured
in the Departments of Capacity Development and Extension and
Rural Planning and Development in the School
of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University
of Guelph. She has also been a lecturer at the University
of Toronto, in the Faculty
of Forestry. In addition to her Ph.D., Dr. Brown holds a
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Biology from Acadia University
and a Master of Science in Zoology from the University of Guelph.
She is
a member of the following organizations: Canadian Evaluation
Society; International Association for the Study of the Commons;
Commonwealth Forestry Association; American Scientific Affiliation;
Guelph Field Naturalists.
Carolyn
is fluent in English, French and Lingala.
Dr. Douglas
R. Brown
Douglas
is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department
of International Studies and Glendon
College, the bilingual Liberal Arts campus of York
University. Prior to joining York, he worked with World
Vision International's Climate
Change Response Initiative (CCRI) as their Climate Change
Adaptation Specialist -- helping to ensure that World Vision
programming addressed the underlying causes of vulnerability
to climate change and facilitating the process of adaptation.
Other work included involvement in the Canadian
Coalition on Climate Change and Development and World Vision's
response to the Global Food Crisis where he played a key role
in development of World Vision's global agricultural strategy.
Within World Vision, he has also served as Research Advisor
to the Southern Africa Livelihoods Emergency Response and before
this as Senior Sector Specialist, Environment and Natural Resource
Management at World
Vision Canada. His role focused on ensuring that children,
families and communities benefit from a transformational
development process that facilitates sustainable improvements
to household livelihoods and well-being while ensuring wise
stewardship
of the natural resource base on which they depend. He completed
his Ph.D. in the Economics
of Development at Cornell
University, Ithaca, N.Y. in 2004 with minors in Conservation
and Sustainable Development and in Resource Economics. His research
in Cameroon
and Kenya
focused on the relationship between household resource management
decisions, poverty and environmental degradation. Prior to his
doctoral studies he worked for over 10 years at the grass roots
level in agricultural and community development in the Democratic
Republic of Congo. His international experience began through
a 4 month cross-cultural
exchange to the Philippines and his subsequent work has
taken him to Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mozambique, Senegal,
South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. Douglas has a B.Sc. in
Agriculture
from the University
of Guelph.
He is a
member of the Canadian Agricultural
Economics Society and the Association
of Christian Economists.
Douglas
is fluent in English, French and Lingala.
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