Sheila Edith Zamora López

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

Spezialisiert in

• 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

Räumliche Expertise

• Nicaragua
• Honduras
• Guatemala
• Costa Rica
• Bolivien

Education

• 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)

• DAAD alumni, active member, ex-scholar of master studies (awarded 2004-2005)
• DAAD scholar, active in meetings, doctoral researcher from April 2011-March 2015
• IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations), member as individual forest professional. Active member in meetings, such as III. IUFROLAT Congress (June 2013) and XXIV. IUFRO World Congress (Oct 2014)
• UNFCCC COP19, Warsaw University, Poland (12-18 Nov. 2013); Observer representative of Hamburg University
• Global Landscape Forum (GLF), Warsaw University, Poland (16-17 Nov. 2013); participant, Hamburg University