Finn Danielsen
Senior Ecologist, Nordisk Fond for Miljø og Udvikling
Finn Danielsen was co-founder of Nordisk Fond for Miljø og Udvikling. He has 20 years experience with community-based natural resource management programs and projects. Key qualifications include:
- linking international commitments on environment, development and climate change to action on-the-ground
- bridging the gap between governments, scientists and local stakeholders
- developing sustainable and resilient livelihoods
- integrating local development and environmental issues
- planning of environment and rural development at the local and national level
- environmental monitoring, developing scientific concepts and testing innovative, inclusive approaches such as locally-based natural resource monitoring
- linking traditional and local knowledge systems with Western science systems
- adapting local natural resource management to the impacts of cryosphere change
- community-based management of natural resources
- pro-poor REDD+ planning
- extension and communication
- training and capacity building, institutional development
- implementation of the conventions on Climate Change, Biological Diversity, desertification, wetlands (Ramsar), and Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS)
Coordinator of the 'International Monitoring Matters Network', see www.monitoringmatters.org. Coordinator of 'Piniakkanik Sumiiffinni Nalunaarsuineq' (Opening Doors to Native Knowledge in the Arctic), see www.pisuna.org.