Sheila Edith Zamora López

• Internationale Waldpolitik
• Klima, Wald und Landnutzung
• Internationale Wald-Ressourcen-Erfassung
• International Forest Monitoring, REDD+ and Forest development and Policy

Specialisation

• Modeling deforestation and forest degradation
• REDD+ incentives at a sub-national scale
• Connecting research and policy in a scope of REDD+
• Forest National Assessment
• LULUCF GHG inventory
• Mitigation and adaptation to climate change forest projectsv

 Expertise

• Nicaragua
• Honduras
• Guatemala
• Costa Rica
• Bolivien

Academic studies

• 1996-2001 Forest Engineer. Agricultural National University (UNA). Nicaragua
• 2004-2005 Magister Scientiae in Tropical Agroforestry. Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Costa Rica. Research: Effect of payments for environmental services on the structure, composition, connectivity and carbon stocks in agricultural landscapes in Esparza, Costa Rica.

Work experience

• Since 2011 Doctorate candidate – Institute for World Forestry (WF), University of Hamburg, ongoing research: Potential of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) according to scenarios of land use change in Nicaragua, Central America.

• Verbesserung der ökonomischen Nachhaltigkeit bei der Naturwald-Bewirtschaftung in den Tropen (9/2011-12/2013)
• Nachhaltige Bewirtschaftung von Tropenwäldern (seit 2/2014)
• Potential of REDD+ at a Subnational Scale in Nicaragua (Doctorate project/2011 - 2016)