Søren Hvalkof
Senior Consultant, Indigenous Peoples & Natural Resource Management Specialist, Mag.Scient. Anthropology
Mr. Hvalkof is an internationally recognised specialist on indigenous peoples issues. His 30 years of experience comprises:
- indigenous movements and organisation
- multicultural development
- ethnic conflict mangement and resolution
- colonisation and social mobilization
- land titling processes (large scale)
- land tenure, land reform and land policy
- participatory planning, land use planning, and conservation strategies
- rights based approaches including human rights, indigenous rights and labour rights
- natural resource management
- poverty reduction and livelihood strategies
- tropical forest environments, production and economies
- GIS/Remote Sensing methodologies
- mapping of changes in land/forest use and settlement patterns in tropical forest environments
- evaluation, supervision and identification of integrated rural development projects
- management and monitoring models
- design of integrated conservation and development programmes
- rural health planning, participatory decentralized health systems.
- ethnographic research and applied anthropological research
Regional Specialization: Latin America: Amazon Region & Andean Region: Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia. Central America: Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico Additional: North America: USA, Canada, Russia and Greenland. Other arctic zones. Shorter visits: Philippines and Brazil