Professor Peter Kanowski ‘Forests Near and Far: Issues in a Warming World’

Peter, Professor of Forestry, ANU, will talk about the world’s forests which are under pressure from deforestation and degradation and increasingly from climate change.  Australian forests, and those locally that make Canberra livable, are also threatened.  Peter will review the situation, and our options and priorities in responding to these challenges.

Abstract

The world’s forests continue to be under pressure from deforestation and degradation, and increasingly from climate change.  Ambitious forest governance and restoration goals have yet to be realised at scales sufficient to address these pressures. Australia’s forests, and those locally that make Canberra livable, are also threatened.  Peter Kanowski will review the situation, and our options and priorities in responding to these challenges.

Biography

Peter Kanowski, Professor of Forestry, ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society.  He works on forest governance issues internationally, nationally and locally.

Peter is an ANU forestry graduate who completed his D.Phil at Oxford University’s Forestry Institute, and was a lecturer there, before returning to the ANU as Chair of Forestry in 1995.  He took leave from the ANU to be Deputy Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research 2012–14, and has also been Master of University House at the ANU since 2014.  Peter’s academic work currently focuses on international forest governance (with the University of Freiburg), tree plantations and smallholder tree growing (with The Forests Dialogue and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research), and urban forests (with ACT, ANU and Singapore colleagues).