Selected Presentations & Appearances
Convergence of Evidence: A Tool to Combat Desertification
- Launch of World Atlas on Desertification, 3rd Edition
· November 2018
Invited Talk
European Commission,
Brussels, Belgium
Small-scale agricultural production systems on marginal lands: Meeting the challenge of sustainability using integrated assessment models
· September 2015
Invited Talk
Vietnam Forestry University, Hanoi,
Hanoi, Vietnam
Global Rise in City Slickers: The Heat is on!
- ESA Vice Presidents’ Centennial Session: Frontiers in Science, Education, Management, and Policy to Address Pressing Environmental Issues
· August 2015
Invited Talk
Ecological Society of America,
Baltimore, MD
Understanding Interdependencies of Natural and Human Systems as Nonlinear Agents of Land Degradation
- Consortium for Research in East African Tropical Ecosystems
· February 2015
Invited Talk
Maseno University, Kenya,
Kisumu, Kenya
Service to the Profession
Editorial Board
- World Atlas of Desertification
·
2012
- 2016
Editorial Activities
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) ,
Ispra, Italy
Editorial Board
- Lead Author, "Challenges of the Earth System"
·
2012
- 2014
Editorial Activities
Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) ,
Nairobi, Kenya