Biography

Biologist, DSc at Nordic Foundation for Development and Ecology (NORDECO). With many partners, Finn has spearheaded the development of bottom-up approaches to natural resource monitoring and management, where local people are directly involved in data collection and interpretation, and where monitoring is linked to the decisions of local people, using methods that are simple, cheap and require few resources. Such approaches can help generate transparency, accountability and local ownership in conservation and development initiatives. Several of the programs continue with no external involvement >10 years after establishment. He is a member of the Project Management Team, and Co-Leader of Work Package 1.

• Institution: NORDECO